you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall call to mind to remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

I will remember the works of YAH; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea; the Red Sea.

Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For this reason I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up with reminders,

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),

that you may remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had given him commandment concerning them,

who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to encamp, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

To Him who led His people through the wilderness, for His mercy is eternal;

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.

But Hezekiah did not return according to the favor shown him, for his heart had become haughty; therefore wrath was over him and over Judah and Jerusalem.

Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the haughtiness of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

And when he was in distress, he entreated Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Also his prayer and his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

In order to turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man,

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You.

Therefore I despise myself, and have repented in dust and ashes.

And the pride of man shall be bowed down; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Likewise you that are younger, be subject to your elders. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, to humble you and to test you, to do you good in the end;

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

And it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.

And he cried out unto Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them,

And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather in this matter day by day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.

However, regarding the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon, who were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone, to test him, to know all his heart.

You called in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who will stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fuller's soap.

And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may draw near to Jehovah with an offering in righteousness.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

that the testing of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found unto praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

I Jehovah search the heart, I examine the soul, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

and had no need that anyone should bear witness of man, for He knew what was in man.

And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the inner thoughts and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.