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Deuteronomy Chapter 4

¹⁵Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that ForeverOne spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

¹⁶Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, ¹⁸the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; ¹⁹and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which ForeverOne your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

²⁰But ForeverOne has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

²¹Furthermore ForeverOne was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which ForeverOne your God gives you for an inheritance: ²²but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.

²³Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of ForeverOne your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which ForeverOne your God has forbidden you.

²⁴For ForeverOne your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

²⁵When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of ForeverOne your God, to provoke him to anger; ²⁶I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

²⁷ForeverOne will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where ForeverOne shall lead you away.

Ezekiel Chapter 36

⁶Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations: ⁷therefore thus says the Lord ForeverOne: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.

⁸But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

⁹For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown; ¹⁰and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built; ¹¹and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am ForeverOne.

¹²Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.

¹³Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation; ¹⁴therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord ForeverOne; ¹⁵neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord ForeverOne.

¹⁶Moreover the word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ¹⁷Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

¹⁸Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols; ¹⁹and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

²⁰When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of ForeverOne, and are gone forth out of his land.

²¹But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.

²²Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

²³I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am ForeverOne, says the Lord ForeverOne, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

²⁶I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

²⁸You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²⁹I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

³⁰I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

³¹Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³²Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord ForeverOne, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

³³Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.

³⁴The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

³⁵They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

³⁶Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, ForeverOne, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, ForeverOne, have spoken it, and I will do it.

³⁷Thus says the Lord ForeverOne: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

³⁸As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am ForeverOne.

Proverbs Chapter 23

¹When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; ²put a knife to your throat, if you are given to appetite.

³Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

⁴Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

⁵Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

⁶Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: ⁷for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁸The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

⁹Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: ¹¹for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

¹²Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

¹³Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine: ¹⁶yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.

¹⁷Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear ForeverOne all the day long.

¹⁸Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁹Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

²⁰Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: ²¹for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

²²Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

²³Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

²⁵Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

²⁶My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

²⁷For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

²⁸Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Hebrews Chapter 3

¹²Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; ¹³but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today", lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴For we have become partakers of the AnointedOne, if we hold on to the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: ¹⁵while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." ¹⁶For who, when they heard, rebelled? Weren't all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

¹⁷With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

¹⁹We see that they weren't able to enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews Chapter 4

¹So let's fear, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

²For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

³For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the actions were finished from the foundation of the world.

⁴For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his work;" ⁵and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest." ⁶So, seeing it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, ⁷he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts." ⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

⁹There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

¹⁰For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his work, as God did from his.

¹¹So let's give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

¹²For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

¹⁴Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let's hold tightly to our confession.

¹⁵For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

¹⁶So let's draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.