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nasb Ecclesiastes:9:13-10:20



nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes feast in the morning.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time--for strength and not for drunkenness.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:19 @Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:9:20 @Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no delight in them";

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @and the doors on the street are shut as the sound of the grinding mill is low, and one will arise at the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song will sing softly.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:8" @ Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "all is vanity!"

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @In addition to being a wise man, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, searched out and arranged many proverbs.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:11 @The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:12 @But beyond this, my son, be warned- the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:13 @The conclusion, when all has been heard, is- fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

nasb@Ecclesiastes:11:14 @For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.

nasb@Songs:0:1 @The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

nasb@Songs:0:2" @ May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.

nasb@Songs:0:3" @Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you.

nasb@Songs:0:4" @Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers." " We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you."

nasb@Songs:0:5" @ I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.

nasb@Songs:0:6" @Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

nasb@Songs:0:7" @Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock, Where do you make it lie down at noon? For why should I be like one who veils herself Beside the flocks of your companions?"

nasb@Songs:0:8" @ If you yourself do not know, Most beautiful among women, Go forth on the trail of the flock And pasture your young goats By the tents of the shepherds.

nasb@Songs:0:9" @To me, my darling, you are like My mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.

nasb@Songs:0:10" @Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads."

nasb@Songs:0:11" @ We will make for you ornaments of gold With beads of silver."

nasb@Songs:0:12" @ While the king was at his table, My perfume gave forth its fragrance.

nasb@Songs:0:13" @My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh Which lies all night between my breasts.

nasb@Songs:0:14" @My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms In the vineyards of Engedi."

nasb@Songs:0:15" @ How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves."

nasb@Songs:0:16" @ How handsome you are, my beloved, And so pleasant! Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!

nasb@Songs:0:17" @The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses.

nasb@Songs:0:2" @ I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys."

nasb@Songs:0:2" @ Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the maidens."

nasb@Songs:0:3" @ Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I took great delight and sat down, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

nasb@Songs:0:4" @He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love.

nasb@Songs:0:5" @Sustain me with raisin cakes, Refresh me with apples, Because I am lovesick.

nasb@Songs:0:6" @Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

nasb@Songs:0:7" @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, That you do not arouse or awaken my love Until she pleases."

nasb@Songs:0:8" @ Listen! My beloved! Behold, he is coming, Climbing on the mountains, Leaping on the hills!

nasb@Songs:0:9" @My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he is standing behind our wall, He is looking through the windows, He is peering through the lattice.

nasb@Songs:0:10" @My beloved responded and said to me, ' Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along.

nasb@Songs:0:11 @'For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.

nasb@Songs:0:12 @'The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

nasb@Songs:0:13 @'The fig tree has ripened its figs, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!'"

nasb@Songs:0:14" @O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret place of the steep pathway, Let me see your form, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your form is lovely."

nasb@Songs:0:15" @ Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, While our vineyards are in blossom."

nasb@Songs:0:16" @ My beloved is mine, and I am his; He pastures his flock among the lilies.

nasb@Songs:0:17" @ Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether."

nasb@Songs:1:1" @ On my bed night after night I sought him Whom my soul loves; I sought him but did not find him.

nasb@Songs:1:2 @'I must arise now and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I must seek him whom my soul loves.' I sought him but did not find him.

nasb@Songs:1:3" @ The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, And I said, 'Have you seen him whom my soul loves?'

nasb@Songs:1:4" @ Scarcely had I left them When I found him whom my soul loves; I held on to him and would not let him go Until I had brought him to my mother's house, And into the room of her who conceived me."

nasb@Songs:1:5" @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, That you will not arouse or awaken my love Until she pleases."

nasb@Songs:1:6" @ What is this coming up from the wilderness Like columns of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all scented powders of the merchant?

nasb@Songs:1:7" @Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon; Sixty mighty men around it, Of the mighty men of Israel.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @All of them are wielders of the sword, Expert in war; Each man has his sword at his side, Guarding against the terrors of the night.

nasb@Songs:1:9" @King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair From the timber of Lebanon.

nasb@Songs:1:10" @He made its posts of silver, Its back of gold And its seat of purple fabric, With its interior lovingly fitted out By the daughters of Jerusalem.

nasb@Songs:1:11" @Go forth, O daughters of Zion, And gaze on King Solomon with the crown With which his mother has crowned him On the day of his wedding, And on the day of his gladness of heart."

nasb@Songs:1:4" @ How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; Your hair is like a flock of goats That have descended from Mount Gilead.

nasb@Songs:1:2" @Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes Which have come up from their washing, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.

nasb@Songs:1:3" @Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

nasb@Songs:1:4" @Your neck is like the tower of David, Built with rows of stones On which are hung a thousand shields, All the round shields of the mighty men.

nasb@Songs:1:5" @Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle Which feed among the lilies.

nasb@Songs:1:6" @ Until the cool of the day When the shadows flee away, I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh And to the hill of frankincense.

nasb@Songs:1:7" @ You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, May you come with me from Lebanon. Journey down from the summit of Amana, From the summit of Senir and Hermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

nasb@Songs:1:9" @You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.

nasb@Songs:1:10" @ How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!

nasb@Songs:1:11" @Your lips, my bride, drip honey; Honey and milk are under your tongue, And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

nasb@Songs:1:12" @A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

nasb@Songs:1:13" @Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates With choice fruits, henna with nard plants,

nasb@Songs:1:14 @Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.

nasb@Songs:1:15" @You are a garden spring, A well of fresh water, And streams flowing from Lebanon."

nasb@Songs:1:16" @ Awake, O north wind, And come, wind of the south; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, Let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden And eat its choice fruits!"

nasb@Songs:1:5" @ I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers."

nasb@Songs:1:2" @ I was asleep but my heart was awake. A voice! My beloved was knocking- 'Open to me, my sister, my darling, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the damp of the night.'

nasb@Songs:1:3" @I have taken off my dress, How can I put it on again? I have washed my feet, How can I dirty them again?

nasb@Songs:1:4" @My beloved extended his hand through the opening, And my feelings were aroused for him.

nasb@Songs:1:5" @I arose to open to my beloved; And my hands dripped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the bolt.

nasb@Songs:1:6" @I opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and had gone! My heart went out to him as he spoke. I searched for him but I did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.

nasb@Songs:1:7" @The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, They struck me and wounded me; The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, As to what you will tell him- For I am lovesick."

nasb@Songs:1:9" @ What kind of beloved is your beloved, O most beautiful among women? What kind of beloved is your beloved, That thus you adjure us?"

nasb@Songs:1:10" @ My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, Outstanding among ten thousand.

nasb@Songs:1:11" @His head is like gold, pure gold; His locks are like clusters of dates And black as a raven.

nasb@Songs:1:12" @His eyes are like doves Beside streams of water, Bathed in milk, And reposed in their setting.

nasb@Songs:1:13" @His cheeks are like a bed of balsam, Banks of sweet-scented herbs; His lips are lilies Dripping with liquid myrrh.

nasb@Songs:1:14" @His hands are rods of gold Set with beryl; His abdomen is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires.

nasb@Songs:1:15" @His legs are pillars of alabaster Set on pedestals of pure gold; His appearance is like Lebanon Choice as the cedars.

nasb@Songs:1:16" @His mouth is full of sweetness. And he is wholly desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."

nasb@Songs:1:6" @ Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, That we may seek him with you?"

nasb@Songs:1:2" @ My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies.

nasb@Songs:1:3" @ I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine, He who pastures his flock among the lilies."

nasb@Songs:1:4" @ You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As awesome as an army with banners.

nasb@Songs:1:5" @Turn your eyes away from me, For they have confused me; Your hair is like a flock of goats That have descended from Gilead.

nasb@Songs:1:6" @ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes Which have come up from their washing, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.

nasb@Songs:1:7" @ Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, And maidens without number;

nasb@Songs:1:9 @But my dove, my perfect one, is unique- She is her mother's only daughter; She is the pure child of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

nasb@Songs:1:10 @'Who is this that grows like the dawn, As beautiful as the full moon, As pure as the sun, As awesome as an army with banners?'

nasb@Songs:1:11" @I went down to the orchard of nut trees To see the blossoms of the valley, To see whether the vine had budded Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

nasb@Songs:1:12" @Before I was aware, my soul set me Over the chariots of my noble people."

nasb@Songs:1:13" @ Come back, come back, O Shulammite; Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!" " Why should you gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of the two companiesNULL

nasb@Songs:1:7" @How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

nasb@Songs:1:2" @Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.

nasb@Songs:1:3" @Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.

nasb@Songs:1:4" @Your neck is like a tower of ivory, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, Which faces toward Damascus.

nasb@Songs:1:5" @Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.

nasb@Songs:1:6" @How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your charms!

nasb@Songs:1:7" @Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @I said, 'I will climb the palm tree, I will take hold of its fruit stalks.' Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

nasb@Songs:1:9 @And your mouth like the best wine!" " It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

nasb@Songs:1:10" @ I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.

nasb@Songs:1:11" @Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages.

nasb@Songs:1:12" @Let us rise early and go to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded And its blossoms have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.

nasb@Songs:1:13" @The mandrakes have given forth fragrance; And over our doors are all choice fruits, Both new and old, Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.

nasb@Songs:1:8" @Oh that you were like a brother to me Who nursed at my mother's breasts. If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you; No one would despise me, either.

nasb@Songs:1:2" @I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

nasb@Songs:1:3" @Let his left hand be under my head And his right hand embrace me."

nasb@Songs:1:4" @ I want you to swear, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not arouse or awaken my love Until she pleases."

nasb@Songs:1:5" @ Who is this coming up from the wilderness Leaning on her beloved?" " Beneath the apple tree I awakened you; There your mother was in labor with you, There she was in labor and gave you birth.

nasb@Songs:1:6" @Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.

nasb@Songs:1:7" @Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised."

nasb@Songs:1:8" @ We have a little sister, And she has no breasts; What shall we do for our sister On the day when she is spoken for?

nasb@Songs:1:9" @If she is a wall, We will build on her a battlement of silver; But if she is a door, We will barricade her with planks of cedar."

nasb@Songs:1:10" @ I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

nasb@Songs:1:11" @Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers. Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

nasb@Songs:1:12" @My very own vineyard is at my disposal; The thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, And two hundred are for those who take care of its fruit."

nasb@Songs:1:13" @ O you who sit in the gardens, My companions are listening for your voice-- Let me hear it!"

nasb@Songs:1:14" @ Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of spices."

nasb@Isaiah:1:1 @The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem, which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

nasb@Isaiah:1:2 @Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks, " Sons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me.

nasb@Isaiah:1:3" @An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master's manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand."

nasb@Isaiah:1:4 @Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.

nasb@Isaiah:1:5 @Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.

nasb@Isaiah:1:6 @From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises, welts and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, Nor softened with oil.

nasb@Isaiah:1:7 @Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields--strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

nasb@Isaiah:1:8 @The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman's hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

nasb@Isaiah:1:9 @Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.

nasb@Isaiah:1:10 @Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our God, You people of Gomorrah.

nasb@Isaiah:1:11" @ What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

nasb@Isaiah:1:12" @When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?

nasb@Isaiah:1:13" @Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.

nasb@Isaiah:1:14" @I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

nasb@Isaiah:1:15" @So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

nasb@Isaiah:1:16" @ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,

nasb@Isaiah:1:17 @Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.

nasb@Isaiah:1:18" @Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, " Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.

nasb@Isaiah:1:19" @ If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;

nasb@Isaiah:1:20" @But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Isaiah:1:21 @How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers.

nasb@Isaiah:1:22 @Your silver has become dross, Your drink diluted with water.

nasb@Isaiah:1:23 @Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, Nor does the widow's plea come before them.

nasb@Isaiah:1:24 @Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, declares, "Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries And avenge Myself on My foes.

nasb@Isaiah:1:25" @I will also turn My hand against you, And will smelt away your dross as with lye And will remove all your alloy.

nasb@Isaiah:1:26" @Then I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning; After that you will be called the city of righteousness, A faithful city."

nasb@Isaiah:1:27 @Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:1:28 @But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together, And those who forsake the LORD will come to an end.

nasb@Isaiah:1:29 @Surely you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

nasb@Isaiah:1:30 @For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away Or as a garden that has no water.

nasb@Isaiah:1:31 @The strong man will become tinder, His work also a spark. Thus they shall both burn together And there will be none to quench them.

nasb@Isaiah:2:1 @The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:2:2 @Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it.

nasb@Isaiah:2:3 @And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:2:4 @And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

nasb@Isaiah:2:5 @Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:2:6 @For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

nasb@Isaiah:2:7 @Their land has also been filled with silver and gold And there is no end to their treasures; Their land has also been filled with horses And there is no end to their chariots.

nasb@Isaiah:2:8 @Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.

nasb@Isaiah:2:9 @So the common man has been humbled And the man of importance has been abased, But do not forgive them.

nasb@Isaiah:2:10 @Enter the rock and hide in the dust From the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty.

nasb@Isaiah:2:11 @The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

nasb@Isaiah:2:12 @For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and lofty And against everyone who is lifted up, That he may be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:2:13 @And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, Against all the oaks of Bashan,

nasb@Isaiah:2:14 @Against all the lofty mountains, Against all the hills that are lifted up,

nasb@Isaiah:2:15 @Against every high tower, Against every fortified wall,

nasb@Isaiah:2:16 @Against all the ships of Tarshish And against all the beautiful craft.

nasb@Isaiah:2:17 @The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness of men will be abased; And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

nasb@Isaiah:2:18 @But the idols will completely vanish.

nasb@Isaiah:2:19 @Men will go into caves of the rocks And into holes of the ground Before the terror of the LORD And the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.

nasb@Isaiah:2:20 @In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,

nasb@Isaiah:2:21 @In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs Before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.

nasb@Isaiah:2:22 @Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be esteemedNULL

nasb@Isaiah:3:1 @For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;

nasb@Isaiah:3:2 @The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,

nasb@Isaiah:3:3 @The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan, And the skillful enchanter.

nasb@Isaiah:3:4 @And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,

nasb@Isaiah:3:5 @And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.

nasb@Isaiah:3:6 @When a man lays hold of his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your charge,"

nasb@Isaiah:3:7 @He will protest on that day, saying, "I will not be your healer, For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me ruler of the people."

nasb@Isaiah:3:8 @For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, To rebel against His glorious presence.

nasb@Isaiah:3:9 @The expression of their faces bears witness against them, And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

nasb@Isaiah:3:10 @Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

nasb@Isaiah:3:11 @Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.

nasb@Isaiah:3:12 @O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

nasb@Isaiah:3:13 @The LORD arises to contend, And stands to judge the people.

nasb@Isaiah:3:14 @The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of His people, "It is you who have devoured the vineyard; The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

nasb@Isaiah:3:15" @What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the face of the poor?" Declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:3:16 @Moreover, the LORD said, "Because the daughters of Zion are proud And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, And go along with mincing steps And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

nasb@Isaiah:3:17 @Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the LORD will make their foreheads bare."

nasb@Isaiah:3:18 @In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

nasb@Isaiah:3:19 @dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,

nasb@Isaiah:3:20 @headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets,

nasb@Isaiah:3:21 @finger rings, nose rings,

nasb@Isaiah:3:22 @festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses,

nasb@Isaiah:3:23 @hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans and veils.

nasb@Isaiah:3:24 @Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp; Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.

nasb@Isaiah:3:25 @Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty ones in battle.

nasb@Isaiah:3:26 @And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

nasb@Isaiah:4:1 @For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!"

nasb@Isaiah:4:2 @In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:4:3 @It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy--everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:4:4 @When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning,

nasb@Isaiah:4:5 @then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

nasb@Isaiah:4:6 @There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.

nasb@Isaiah:5:1 @Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

nasb@Isaiah:5:2 @He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.

nasb@Isaiah:5:3" @And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.

nasb@Isaiah:5:4" @ What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

nasb@Isaiah:5:5" @So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard- I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

nasb@Isaiah:5:6" @I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it."

nasb@Isaiah:5:7 @For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

nasb@Isaiah:5:8 @Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

nasb@Isaiah:5:9 @In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

nasb@Isaiah:5:10" @For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain."

nasb@Isaiah:5:11 @Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

nasb@Isaiah:5:12 @Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

nasb@Isaiah:5:13 @Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst.

nasb@Isaiah:5:14 @Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure; And Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

nasb@Isaiah:5:15 @So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the proud also will be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:5:16 @But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:5:17 @Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

nasb@Isaiah:5:18 @Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart ropes;

nasb@Isaiah:5:19 @Who say, "Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come to pass, that we may know it!"

nasb@Isaiah:5:20 @Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

nasb@Isaiah:5:21 @Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!

nasb@Isaiah:5:22 @Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

nasb@Isaiah:5:23 @Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

nasb@Isaiah:5:24 @Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:5:25 @On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:5:26 @He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation, And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

nasb@Isaiah:5:27 @No one in it is weary or stumbles, None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the belt at its waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.

nasb@Isaiah:5:28 @Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent; The hoofs of its horses seem like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

nasb@Isaiah:5:29 @Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions; It growls as it seizes the prey And carries it off with no one to deliver it.

nasb@Isaiah:5:30 @And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

nasb@Isaiah:6:1 @In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

nasb@Isaiah:6:2 @Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings- with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

nasb@Isaiah:6:3 @And one called out to another and said, " Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory."

nasb@Isaiah:6:4 @And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

nasb@Isaiah:6:5 @Then I said, " Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."

nasb@Isaiah:6:6 @Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

nasb@Isaiah:6:7 @He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven."

nasb@Isaiah:6:8 @Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

nasb@Isaiah:6:9 @He said, "Go, and tell this people- 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.'

nasb@Isaiah:6:10" @ Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

nasb@Isaiah:6:11 @Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

nasb@Isaiah:6:12" @The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

nasb@Isaiah:6:13" @Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump."

nasb@Isaiah:7:1 @Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not conquer it.

nasb@Isaiah:7:2 @When it was reported to the house of David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake with the wind.

nasb@Isaiah:7:3 @Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller's field,

nasb@Isaiah:7:4 @and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.

nasb@Isaiah:7:5 @'Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:6" @Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"

nasb@Isaiah:7:7 @thus says the Lord GOD- " It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8" @For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

nasb@Isaiah:7:9 @and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you surely shall not last."'"

nasb@Isaiah:7:10 @Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:11" @Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven."

nasb@Isaiah:7:12 @But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"

nasb@Isaiah:7:13 @Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?

nasb@Isaiah:7:14" @Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign- Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

nasb@Isaiah:7:15" @He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

nasb@Isaiah:7:16" @ For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

nasb@Isaiah:7:17" @The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:7:18 @In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

nasb@Isaiah:7:19 @They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes and on all the watering places.

nasb@Isaiah:7:20 @In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

nasb@Isaiah:7:21 @Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

nasb@Isaiah:7:22 @and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.

nasb@Isaiah:7:23 @And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

nasb@Isaiah:7:24 @People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

nasb@Isaiah:7:25 @As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8 @Then the LORD said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters- Swift is the booty, speedy is the prey.

nasb@Isaiah:7:2" @And I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

nasb@Isaiah:7:3 @So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

nasb@Isaiah:7:4 @for before the boy knows how to cry out 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:7:5 @Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:6" @Inasmuch as these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah And rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;

nasb@Isaiah:7:7" @Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates, Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8" @Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, It will reach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

nasb@Isaiah:7:9" @ Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

nasb@Isaiah:7:10" @ Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."

nasb@Isaiah:7:11 @For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:12" @You are not to say, 'It is a conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it.

nasb@Isaiah:7:13" @It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

nasb@Isaiah:7:14" @Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:7:15" @Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."

nasb@Isaiah:7:16 @Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

nasb@Isaiah:7:17 @And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:7:18 @Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:7:19 @When they say to you, " Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

nasb@Isaiah:7:20 @To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

nasb@Isaiah:7:21 @They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

nasb@Isaiah:7:22 @Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

nasb@Isaiah:8:1 @But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

nasb@Isaiah:8:2 @The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.

nasb@Isaiah:8:3 @You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

nasb@Isaiah:8:4 @For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.

nasb@Isaiah:8:5 @For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

nasb@Isaiah:8:6 @For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

nasb@Isaiah:8:7 @There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.

nasb@Isaiah:8:8 @The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:8:9 @And all the people know it, That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart-

nasb@Isaiah:8:10" @The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with cedars."

nasb@Isaiah:8:11 @Therefore the LORD raises against them adversaries from Rezin And spurs their enemies on,

nasb@Isaiah:8:12 @The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with gaping jaws. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:8:13 @Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:8:14 @So the LORD cuts off head and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

nasb@Isaiah:8:15 @The head is the elder and honorable man, And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

nasb@Isaiah:8:16 @For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

nasb@Isaiah:8:17 @Therefore the Lord does not take pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity on their orphans or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:8:18 @For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

nasb@Isaiah:8:19 @By the fury of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for the fire; No man spares his brother.

nasb@Isaiah:8:20 @They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry, And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied; Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

nasb@Isaiah:8:21 @Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, And together they are against Judah. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:9:1 @Woe to those who enact evil statutes And to those who constantly record unjust decisions,

nasb@Isaiah:9:2 @So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.

nasb@Isaiah:9:3 @Now what will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth?

nasb@Isaiah:9:4 @Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives Or fall among the slain. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:9:5 @Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

nasb@Isaiah:9:6 @I send it against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My fury To capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

nasb@Isaiah:9:7 @Yet it does not so intend, Nor does it plan so in its heart, But rather it is its purpose to destroy And to cut off many nations.

nasb@Isaiah:9:8 @For it says, "Are not my princes all kings?

nasb@Isaiah:9:9" @Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

nasb@Isaiah:9:10" @As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

nasb@Isaiah:9:11 @Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

nasb@Isaiah:9:12 @So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness."

nasb@Isaiah:9:13 @For he has said, "By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this, For I have understanding; And I removed the boundaries of the peoples And plundered their treasures, And like a mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,

nasb@Isaiah:9:14 @And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped."

nasb@Isaiah:9:15 @Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.

nasb@Isaiah:9:16 @Therefore the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

nasb@Isaiah:9:17 @And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

nasb@Isaiah:9:18 @And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

nasb@Isaiah:9:19 @And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.

nasb@Isaiah:9:20 @Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:9:21 @A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

nasb@Isaiah:9:22 @For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:9:23 @For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord GOD of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.

nasb@Isaiah:9:24 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

nasb@Isaiah:9:25" @For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction."

nasb@Isaiah:9:26 @The LORD of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:9:27 @So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

nasb@Isaiah:9:28 @He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

nasb@Isaiah:9:29 @They have gone through the pass, saying, " Geba will be our lodging place." Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.

nasb@Isaiah:9:30 @Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!

nasb@Isaiah:9:31 @Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

nasb@Isaiah:9:32 @Yet today he will halt at Nob; He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:9:33 @Behold, the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down And those who are lofty will be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:9:34 @He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

nasb@Isaiah:10:1 @Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:10:2 @The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:10:3 @And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

nasb@Isaiah:10:4 @But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

nasb@Isaiah:10:5 @Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist.

nasb@Isaiah:10:6 @And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.

nasb@Isaiah:10:7 @Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.

nasb@Isaiah:10:8 @The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

nasb@Isaiah:10:9 @They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:10:10 @Then in that day The nations will resort to the root of Jesse, Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His resting place will be glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:10:11 @Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:10:12 @And He will lift up a standard for the nations And assemble the banished ones of Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:10:13 @Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, And those who harass Judah will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

nasb@Isaiah:10:14 @They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they will plunder the sons of the east; They will possess Edom and Moab, And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

nasb@Isaiah:10:15 @And the LORD will utterly destroy The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His hand over the River With His scorching wind; And He will strike it into seven streams And make men walk over dry-shod.

nasb@Isaiah:10:16 @And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:10:12 @Then you will say on that day, " I will give thanks to You, O LORD; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me.

nasb@Isaiah:10:2" @Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation."

nasb@Isaiah:10:3 @Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation.

nasb@Isaiah:10:4 @And in that day you will say, " Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted."

nasb@Isaiah:10:5 @Praise the LORD in song, for He has done excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:10:6 @Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:11:1 @The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

nasb@Isaiah:11:2 @Lift up a standard on the bare hill, Raise your voice to them, Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

nasb@Isaiah:11:3 @I have commanded My consecrated ones, I have even called My mighty warriors, My proudly exulting ones, To execute My anger.

nasb@Isaiah:11:4 @A sound of tumult on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

nasb@Isaiah:11:5 @They are coming from a far country, From the farthest horizons, The LORD and His instruments of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

nasb@Isaiah:11:6 @Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

nasb@Isaiah:11:7 @Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.

nasb@Isaiah:11:8 @They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.

nasb@Isaiah:11:9 @Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

nasb@Isaiah:11:10 @For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.

nasb@Isaiah:11:11 @Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.

nasb@Isaiah:11:12 @I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

nasb@Isaiah:11:13 @Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the LORD of hosts In the day of His burning anger.

nasb@Isaiah:11:14 @And it will be that like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them, They will each turn to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.

nasb@Isaiah:11:15 @Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

nasb@Isaiah:11:16 @Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.

nasb@Isaiah:11:17 @Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

nasb@Isaiah:11:18 @And their bows will mow down the young men, They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb, Nor will their eye pity children.

nasb@Isaiah:11:19 @And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

nasb@Isaiah:11:20 @It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

nasb@Isaiah:11:21 @But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

nasb@Isaiah:11:22 @Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.

nasb@Isaiah:12:1 @When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

nasb@Isaiah:12:2 @The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

nasb@Isaiah:12:3 @And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

nasb@Isaiah:12:4 @that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased!

nasb@Isaiah:12:5" @The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

nasb@Isaiah:12:6 @Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

nasb@Isaiah:12:7" @The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.

nasb@Isaiah:12:8" @Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:9" @ Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

nasb@Isaiah:12:10" @ They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.

nasb@Isaiah:12:11 @'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:12" @How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!

nasb@Isaiah:12:13" @But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.

nasb@Isaiah:12:14 @'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:15" @Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

nasb@Isaiah:12:16" @Those who see you will gaze at you, They will ponder over you, saying, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

nasb@Isaiah:12:17 @Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?'

nasb@Isaiah:12:18" @All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Each in his own tomb.

nasb@Isaiah:12:19" @But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse.

nasb@Isaiah:12:20" @You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

nasb@Isaiah:12:21" @Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities."

nasb@Isaiah:12:22" @I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:12:23" @I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:12:24 @The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

nasb@Isaiah:12:25 @to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

nasb@Isaiah:12:26" @This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:12:27" @For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"

nasb@Isaiah:12:28 @In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came-

nasb@Isaiah:12:29" @Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpent's root a viper will come out, And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

nasb@Isaiah:12:30" @Those who are most helpless will eat, And the needy will lie down in security; I will destroy your root with famine, And it will kill off your survivors.

nasb@Isaiah:12:31" @Wail, O gate; cry, O city; Melt away, O Philistia, all of you; For smoke comes from the north, And there is no straggler in his ranks.

nasb@Isaiah:12:32" @How then will one answer the messengers of the nationNULL That the LORD has founded Zion, And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it."

nasb@Isaiah:13:1 @The oracle concerning Moab. Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

nasb@Isaiah:13:2 @They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.

nasb@Isaiah:13:3 @In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

nasb@Isaiah:13:4 @Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him.

nasb@Isaiah:13:5 @My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:13:6 @For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.

nasb@Isaiah:13:7 @Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up They carry off over the brook of Arabim.

nasb@Isaiah:13:8 @For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab, Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

nasb@Isaiah:13:9 @For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon, A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

nasb@Isaiah:14:1 @Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:14:2 @Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

nasb@Isaiah:14:3" @Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

nasb@Isaiah:14:4" @Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer." For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

nasb@Isaiah:14:5 @A throne will even be established in lovingkindness, And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:14:6 @We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.

nasb@Isaiah:14:7 @Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.

nasb@Isaiah:14:8 @For the fields of Heshbon have withered, the vines of Sibmah as well; The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:14:9 @Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

nasb@Isaiah:14:10 @Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.

nasb@Isaiah:14:11 @Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

nasb@Isaiah:14:12 @So it will come about when Moab presents himself, When he wearies himself upon his high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.

nasb@Isaiah:14:13 @This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

nasb@Isaiah:14:14 @But now the LORD speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and impotent."

nasb@Isaiah:14:17 @The oracle concerning Damascus. "Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:14:2" @The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.

nasb@Isaiah:14:3" @The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel," Declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:14:4 @Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

nasb@Isaiah:14:5 @It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the valley of Rephaim.

nasb@Isaiah:14:6 @Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives on the topmost bough, Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:14:7 @In that day man will have regard for his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:14:8 @He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim and incense stands.

nasb@Isaiah:14:9 @In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; And the land will be a desolation.

nasb@Isaiah:14:10 @For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

nasb@Isaiah:14:11 @In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

nasb@Isaiah:14:12 @Alas, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

nasb@Isaiah:14:13 @The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.

nasb@Isaiah:14:14 @At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.

nasb@Isaiah:15:1 @Alas, oh land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,

nasb@Isaiah:15:2 @Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.

nasb@Isaiah:15:3 @All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth, As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

nasb@Isaiah:15:4 @For thus the LORD has told me, "I will look from My dwelling place quietly Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

nasb@Isaiah:15:5 @For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove and cut away the spreading branches.

nasb@Isaiah:15:6 @They will be left together for mountain birds of prey, And for the beasts of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:7 @At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:15:19 @The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:2" @So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians; And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor, City against city and kingdom against kingdom.

nasb@Isaiah:15:3" @Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confound their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead And to mediums and spiritists.

nasb@Isaiah:15:4" @Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master, And a mighty king will rule over them," declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:15:5 @The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.

nasb@Isaiah:15:6 @The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

nasb@Isaiah:15:7 @The bulrushes by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile And all the sown fields by the Nile Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

nasb@Isaiah:15:8 @And the fishermen will lament, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

nasb@Isaiah:15:9 @Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flax And the weavers of white cloth will be utterly dejected.

nasb@Isaiah:15:10 @And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed; All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.

nasb@Isaiah:15:11 @The princes of Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh's wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you men say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

nasb@Isaiah:15:12 @Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:15:13 @The princes of Zoan have acted foolishly, The princes of Memphis are deluded; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.

nasb@Isaiah:15:14 @The LORD has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

nasb@Isaiah:15:15 @There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

nasb@Isaiah:15:16 @In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:17 @The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts which He is purposing against them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:18 @In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

nasb@Isaiah:15:19 @In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near its border.

nasb@Isaiah:15:20 @It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:21 @Thus the LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the LORD and perform it.

nasb@Isaiah:15:22 @The LORD will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the LORD, and He will respond to them and will heal them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:23 @In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

nasb@Isaiah:15:24 @In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

nasb@Isaiah:15:25 @whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."

nasb@Isaiah:16:1 @In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

nasb@Isaiah:16:2 @at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet." And he did so, going naked and barefoot.

nasb@Isaiah:16:3 @And the LORD said, "Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,

nasb@Isaiah:16:4 @so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:16:5" @Then they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.

nasb@Isaiah:16:6" @So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'"

nasb@Isaiah:17:1 @The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

nasb@Isaiah:17:2 @A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.

nasb@Isaiah:17:3 @For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

nasb@Isaiah:17:4 @My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

nasb@Isaiah:17:5 @They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields,"

nasb@Isaiah:17:6 @For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

nasb@Isaiah:17:7" @When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention."

nasb@Isaiah:17:8 @Then the lookout called, " O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

nasb@Isaiah:17:9" @Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, " Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground."

nasb@Isaiah:17:10 @O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.

nasb@Isaiah:17:11 @The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?"

nasb@Isaiah:17:12 @The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again."

nasb@Isaiah:17:13 @The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

nasb@Isaiah:17:14 @Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread.

nasb@Isaiah:17:15 @For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.

nasb@Isaiah:17:16 @For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;

nasb@Isaiah:17:17 @and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:18:1 @The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

nasb@Isaiah:18:2 @You who were full of noise, You boisterous town, you exultant city; Your slain were not slain with the sword, Nor did they die in battle.

nasb@Isaiah:18:3 @All your rulers have fled together, And have been captured without the bow; All of you who were found were taken captive together, Though they had fled far away.

nasb@Isaiah:18:4 @Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

nasb@Isaiah:18:5 @For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion In the valley of vision, A breaking down of walls And a crying to the mountain.

nasb@Isaiah:18:6 @Elam took up the quiver With the chariots, infantry and horsemen; And Kir uncovered the shield.

nasb@Isaiah:18:7 @Then your choicest valleys were full of chariots, And the horsemen took up fixed positions at the gate.

nasb@Isaiah:18:8 @And He removed the defense of Judah. In that day you depended on the weapons of the house of the forest,

nasb@Isaiah:18:9 @And you saw that the breaches In the wall of the city of David were many; And you collected the waters of the lower pool.

nasb@Isaiah:18:10 @Then you counted the houses of Jerusalem And tore down houses to fortify the wall.

nasb@Isaiah:18:11 @And you made a reservoir between the two walls For the waters of the old pool. But you did not depend on Him who made it, Nor did you take into consideration Him who planned it long ago.

nasb@Isaiah:18:12 @Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

nasb@Isaiah:18:13 @Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine- " Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."

nasb@Isaiah:18:14 @But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself to me, "Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you Until you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:18:15 @Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, To Shebna, who is in charge of the royal household,

nasb@Isaiah:18:16 @'What right do you have here, And whom do you have here, That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, You who hew a tomb on the height, You who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock?

nasb@Isaiah:18:17 @'Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you headlong, O man. And He is about to grasp you firmly

nasb@Isaiah:18:18 @And roll you tightly like a ball, To be cast into a vast country; There you will die And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master's house.'

nasb@Isaiah:18:19" @I will depose you from your office, And I will pull you down from your station.

nasb@Isaiah:18:20" @Then it will come about in that day, That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

nasb@Isaiah:18:21 @And I will clothe him with your tunic And tie your sash securely about him. I will entrust him with your authority, And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

nasb@Isaiah:18:22" @Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.

nasb@Isaiah:18:23" @I will drive him like a peg in a firm place, And he will become a throne of glory to his father's house.

nasb@Isaiah:18:24" @So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

nasb@Isaiah:18:25" @In that day," declares the LORD of hosts, "the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:19:1 @The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor; It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus.

nasb@Isaiah:19:2 @Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea

nasb@Isaiah:19:3 @And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.

nasb@Isaiah:19:4 @Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins."

nasb@Isaiah:19:5 @When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

nasb@Isaiah:19:6 @Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

nasb@Isaiah:19:7 @Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places?

nasb@Isaiah:19:8 @Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

nasb@Isaiah:19:9 @The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:19:10 @Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint.

nasb@Isaiah:19:11 @He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

nasb@Isaiah:19:12 @He has said, " You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest."

nasb@Isaiah:19:13 @Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:19:14 @Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is destroyed.

nasb@Isaiah:19:15 @Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot-

nasb@Isaiah:19:16 @Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.

nasb@Isaiah:19:17 @It will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:19:18 @Her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:20:1 @Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

nasb@Isaiah:20:2 @And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

nasb@Isaiah:20:3 @The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word.

nasb@Isaiah:20:4 @The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

nasb@Isaiah:20:5 @The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

nasb@Isaiah:20:6 @Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

nasb@Isaiah:20:7 @The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.

nasb@Isaiah:20:8 @The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases.

nasb@Isaiah:20:9 @They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

nasb@Isaiah:20:10 @The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

nasb@Isaiah:20:11 @There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished.

nasb@Isaiah:20:12 @Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.

nasb@Isaiah:20:13 @For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

nasb@Isaiah:20:14 @They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:20:15 @Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:20:16 @From the ends of the earth we hear songs, " Glory to the Righteous One," But I say, " Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously."

nasb@Isaiah:20:17 @Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:20:18 @Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

nasb@Isaiah:20:19 @The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.

nasb@Isaiah:20:20 @The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.

nasb@Isaiah:20:21 @So it will happen in that day, That the LORD will punish the host of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth.

nasb@Isaiah:20:22 @They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.

nasb@Isaiah:20:23 @Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders.

nasb@Isaiah:21:1 @O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

nasb@Isaiah:21:2 @For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt.

nasb@Isaiah:21:3 @Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

nasb@Isaiah:21:4 @For You have been a defense for the helpless, A defense for the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall.

nasb@Isaiah:21:5 @Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

nasb@Isaiah:21:6 @The LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.

nasb@Isaiah:21:7 @And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.

nasb@Isaiah:21:8 @He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Isaiah:21:9 @And it will be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

nasb@Isaiah:21:10 @For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trodden down in his place As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

nasb@Isaiah:21:11 @And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

nasb@Isaiah:21:12 @The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:21:26 @In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah- "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

nasb@Isaiah:21:2" @Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

nasb@Isaiah:21:3" @The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

nasb@Isaiah:21:4" @ Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

nasb@Isaiah:21:5" @For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:21:6" @ The foot will trample it, The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless."

nasb@Isaiah:21:7 @The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

nasb@Isaiah:21:8 @Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

nasb@Isaiah:21:9 @At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:21:10 @Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:21:11 @O LORD, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:21:12 @LORD, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works.

nasb@Isaiah:21:13 @O LORD our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name.

nasb@Isaiah:21:14 @The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

nasb@Isaiah:21:15 @You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

nasb@Isaiah:21:16 @O LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them.

nasb@Isaiah:21:17 @As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:21:18 @We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

nasb@Isaiah:21:19 @Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

nasb@Isaiah:21:20 @Come, my people, enter into your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.

nasb@Isaiah:21:21 @For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

nasb@Isaiah:22:1 @In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:22:2 @In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it!

nasb@Isaiah:22:3" @I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day.

nasb@Isaiah:22:4" @I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

nasb@Isaiah:22:5" @Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me."

nasb@Isaiah:22:6 @In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:22:7 @Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

nasb@Isaiah:22:8 @You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

nasb@Isaiah:22:9 @Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin- When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

nasb@Isaiah:22:10 @For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

nasb@Isaiah:22:11 @When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

nasb@Isaiah:22:12 @In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:22:13 @It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:23:1 @Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

nasb@Isaiah:23:2 @Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

nasb@Isaiah:23:3 @The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

nasb@Isaiah:23:4 @And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand, He swallows it.

nasb@Isaiah:23:5 @In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;

nasb@Isaiah:23:6 @A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

nasb@Isaiah:23:7 @And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink- The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions, They totter when rendering judgment.

nasb@Isaiah:23:8 @For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:9" @To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

nasb@Isaiah:23:10" @For He says, ' Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'"

nasb@Isaiah:23:11 @Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

nasb@Isaiah:23:12 @He who said to them, "Here is rest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen.

nasb@Isaiah:23:13 @So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

nasb@Isaiah:23:14 @Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

nasb@Isaiah:23:15 @Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception."

nasb@Isaiah:23:16 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, " Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

nasb@Isaiah:23:17" @I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:18" @Your covenant with death will be canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its trampling place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:19" @As often as it passes through, it will seize you; For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means."

nasb@Isaiah:23:20 @The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.

nasb@Isaiah:23:21 @For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, To do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work.

nasb@Isaiah:23:22 @And now do not carry on as scoffers, Or your fetters will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:23:23 @Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words.

nasb@Isaiah:23:24 @Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

nasb@Isaiah:23:25 @Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cummin And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its area?

nasb@Isaiah:23:26 @For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

nasb@Isaiah:23:27 @For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.

nasb@Isaiah:23:28 @Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

nasb@Isaiah:23:29 @This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

nasb@Isaiah:24:1 @Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped! Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.

nasb@Isaiah:24:2 @I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.

nasb@Isaiah:24:3 @I will camp against you encircling you, And I will set siegeworks against you, And I will raise up battle towers against you.

nasb@Isaiah:24:4 @Then you will be brought low; From the earth you will speak, And from the dust where you are prostrate Your words will come. Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground, And your speech will whisper from the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:24:5 @But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust, And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away; And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

nasb@Isaiah:24:6 @From the LORD of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.

nasb@Isaiah:24:7 @And the multitude of all the nations who wage war against Ariel, Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

nasb@Isaiah:24:8 @It will be as when a hungry man dreams-- And behold, he is eating; But when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied, Or as when a thirsty man dreams-- And behold, he is drinking, But when he awakens, behold, he is faint And his thirst is not quenched. Thus the multitude of all the nations will be Who wage war against Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:24:9 @Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.

nasb@Isaiah:24:10 @For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers.

nasb@Isaiah:24:11 @The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

nasb@Isaiah:24:12 @Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, "Please read this." And he will say, "I cannot read."

nasb@Isaiah:24:13 @Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,

nasb@Isaiah:24:14 @Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; And the wisdom of their wise men will perish, And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed."

nasb@Isaiah:24:15 @Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the LORD, And whose deeds are done in a dark place, And they say, " Who sees us?" or "Who knows us?"

nasb@Isaiah:24:16 @You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, "He did not make me"; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

nasb@Isaiah:24:17 @Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

nasb@Isaiah:24:18 @On that day the deaf will hear words of a book, And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

nasb@Isaiah:24:19 @The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD, And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:24:20 @For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off;

nasb@Isaiah:24:21 @Who cause a person to be indicted by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

nasb@Isaiah:24:22 @Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob- "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale;

nasb@Isaiah:24:23 @But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, They will sanctify My name; Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob And will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:24:24" @Those who err in mind will know the truth, And those who criticize will accept instruction.

nasb@Isaiah:25:1" @Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, In order to add sin to sin;

nasb@Isaiah:25:2 @Who proceed down to Egypt Without consulting Me, To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

nasb@Isaiah:25:3" @Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

nasb@Isaiah:25:4" @For their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

nasb@Isaiah:25:5" @Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach."

nasb@Isaiah:25:6 @The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on camels' humps, To a people who cannot profit them;

nasb@Isaiah:25:7 @Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her " Rahab who has been exterminated."

nasb@Isaiah:25:8 @Now go, write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever.

nasb@Isaiah:25:9 @For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD;

nasb@Isaiah:25:10 @Who say to the seers, "You must not see visions"; And to the prophets, "You must not prophesy to us what is right, Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions.

nasb@Isaiah:25:11" @Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

nasb@Isaiah:25:12 @Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, " Since you have rejected this word And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

nasb@Isaiah:25:13 @Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

nasb@Isaiah:25:14 @Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern."

nasb@Isaiah:25:15 @For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength." But you were not willing,

nasb@Isaiah:25:16 @And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses," Therefore you shall flee! "And we will ride on swift horses," Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

nasb@Isaiah:25:17 @One thousand will flee at the threat of one man; You will flee at the threat of five, Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top And as a signal on a hill.

nasb@Isaiah:25:18 @Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:25:19 @O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

nasb@Isaiah:25:20 @Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

nasb@Isaiah:25:21 @Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

nasb@Isaiah:25:22 @And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, " Be gone!"

nasb@Isaiah:25:23 @Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

nasb@Isaiah:25:24 @Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

nasb@Isaiah:25:25 @On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

nasb@Isaiah:25:26 @The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:25:27 @Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote place; Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

nasb@Isaiah:25:28 @His breath is like an overflowing torrent, Which reaches to the neck, To shake the nations back and forth in a sieve, And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:25:29 @You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute, To go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:25:30 @And the LORD will cause His voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

nasb@Isaiah:25:31 @For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the rod.

nasb@Isaiah:25:32 @And every blow of the rod of punishment, Which the LORD will lay on him, Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

nasb@Isaiah:25:33 @For Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

nasb@Isaiah:26:1 @Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong, But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

nasb@Isaiah:26:2 @Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:26:3 @Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.

nasb@Isaiah:26:4 @For thus says the LORD to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

nasb@Isaiah:26:5 @Like flying birds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

nasb@Isaiah:26:6 @Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected, O sons of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:26:7 @For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.

nasb@Isaiah:26:8 @And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man, And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young men will become forced laborers.

nasb@Isaiah:26:9" @His rock will pass away because of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the standard," Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:27:1 @Behold, a king will reign righteously And princes will rule justly.

nasb@Isaiah:27:2 @Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

nasb@Isaiah:27:3 @Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

nasb@Isaiah:27:4 @The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

nasb@Isaiah:27:5 @No longer will the fool be called noble, Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.

nasb@Isaiah:27:6 @For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness- To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

nasb@Isaiah:27:7 @As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

nasb@Isaiah:27:8 @But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.

nasb@Isaiah:27:9 @Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You complacent daughters.

nasb@Isaiah:27:10 @Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.

nasb@Isaiah:27:11 @Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent daughters; Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

nasb@Isaiah:27:12 @Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

nasb@Isaiah:27:13 @For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

nasb@Isaiah:27:14 @Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

nasb@Isaiah:27:15 @Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

nasb@Isaiah:27:16 @Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

nasb@Isaiah:27:17 @And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

nasb@Isaiah:27:18 @Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

nasb@Isaiah:27:19 @And it will hail when the forest comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.

nasb@Isaiah:27:20 @How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters, Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

nasb@Isaiah:28:1 @Woe to you, O destroyer, While you were not destroyed; And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

nasb@Isaiah:28:2 @O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You. Be their strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress.

nasb@Isaiah:28:3 @At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse.

nasb@Isaiah:28:4 @Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

nasb@Isaiah:28:5 @The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:28:6 @And He will be the stability of your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; The fear of the LORD is his treasure.

nasb@Isaiah:28:7 @Behold, their brave men cry in the streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

nasb@Isaiah:28:8 @The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.

nasb@Isaiah:28:9 @The land mourns and pines away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

nasb@Isaiah:28:10" @Now I will arise," says the LORD, "Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.

nasb@Isaiah:28:11" @You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

nasb@Isaiah:28:12" @The peoples will be burned to lime, Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

nasb@Isaiah:28:13" @You who are far away, hear what I have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My might."

nasb@Isaiah:28:14 @Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?"

nasb@Isaiah:28:15 @He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

nasb@Isaiah:28:16 @He will dwell on the heights, His refuge will be the impregnable rock; His bread will be given him, His water will be sure.

nasb@Isaiah:28:17 @Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will behold a far-distant land.

nasb@Isaiah:28:18 @Your heart will meditate on terror- "Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?"

nasb@Isaiah:28:19 @You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

nasb@Isaiah:28:20 @Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation, A tent which will not be folded; Its stakes will never be pulled up, Nor any of its cords be torn apart.

nasb@Isaiah:28:21 @But there the majestic One, the LORD, will be for us A place of rivers and wide canals On which no boat with oars will go, And on which no mighty ship will pass--

nasb@Isaiah:28:22 @For the LORD is our judge, The LORD is our lawgiver, The LORD is our king; He will save us--

nasb@Isaiah:28:23 @Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly, Nor spread out the sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided; The lame will take the plunder.

nasb@Isaiah:28:24 @And no resident will say, "I am sick"; The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:29:1 @Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

nasb@Isaiah:29:2 @For the LORD'S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

nasb@Isaiah:29:3 @So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

nasb@Isaiah:29:4 @And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree.

nasb@Isaiah:29:5 @For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

nasb@Isaiah:29:6 @The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

nasb@Isaiah:29:7 @Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.

nasb@Isaiah:29:8 @For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:29:9 @Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.

nasb@Isaiah:29:10 @It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.

nasb@Isaiah:29:11 @But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.

nasb@Isaiah:29:12 @Its nobles--there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king-- And all its princes will be nothing.

nasb@Isaiah:29:13 @Thorns will come up in its fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches.

nasb@Isaiah:29:14 @The desert creatures will meet with the wolves, The hairy goat also will cry to its kind; Yes, the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place.

nasb@Isaiah:29:15 @The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. Yes, the hawks will be gathered there, Every one with its kind.

nasb@Isaiah:29:16 @Seek from the book of the LORD, and read- Not one of these will be missing; None will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, And His Spirit has gathered them.

nasb@Isaiah:29:17 @He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

nasb@Isaiah:30:1 @The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus

nasb@Isaiah:30:2 @It will blossom profusely And rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, The majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, The majesty of our God.

nasb@Isaiah:30:3 @Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

nasb@Isaiah:30:4 @Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you."

nasb@Isaiah:30:5 @Then the eyes of the blind will be opened And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

nasb@Isaiah:30:6 @Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the Arabah.

nasb@Isaiah:30:7 @The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

nasb@Isaiah:30:8 @A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it.

nasb@Isaiah:30:9 @No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there,

nasb@Isaiah:30:10 @And the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

nasb@Isaiah:31:1 @Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

nasb@Isaiah:31:2 @And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field.

nasb@Isaiah:31:3 @Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.

nasb@Isaiah:31:4 @Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What is this confidence that you have?

nasb@Isaiah:31:5" @I say, 'Your counsel and strength for the war are only empty words.' Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

nasb@Isaiah:31:6" @Behold, you rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

nasb@Isaiah:31:7" @But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?

nasb@Isaiah:31:8" @Now therefore, come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

nasb@Isaiah:31:9" @How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

nasb@Isaiah:31:10" @Have I now come up without the LORD'S approval against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"'"

nasb@Isaiah:31:11 @Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

nasb@Isaiah:31:12 @But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

nasb@Isaiah:31:13 @Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

nasb@Isaiah:31:14" @Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

nasb@Isaiah:31:15 @nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:31:16 @'Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

nasb@Isaiah:31:17 @until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

nasb@Isaiah:31:18 @'Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, " The LORD will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

nasb@Isaiah:31:19 @'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

nasb@Isaiah:31:20 @'Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'"

nasb@Isaiah:31:21 @But they were silent and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

nasb@Isaiah:31:22 @Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

nasb@Isaiah:32:1 @And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:2 @Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

nasb@Isaiah:32:3 @They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

nasb@Isaiah:32:4 @'Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:5 @So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nasb@Isaiah:32:6 @Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD, " Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

nasb@Isaiah:32:7" @Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:8 @Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

nasb@Isaiah:32:9 @When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has come out to fight against you," and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:32:10" @Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ' Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:32:11 @' Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

nasb@Isaiah:32:12 @'Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

nasb@Isaiah:32:13 @'Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:14 @Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:15 @Hezekiah prayed to the LORD saying,

nasb@Isaiah:32:16" @O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

nasb@Isaiah:32:17" @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

nasb@Isaiah:32:18" @Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

nasb@Isaiah:32:19 @and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

nasb@Isaiah:32:20" @Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, LORD, are God."

nasb@Isaiah:32:21 @Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

nasb@Isaiah:32:22 @this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him- "She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

nasb@Isaiah:32:23" @Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

nasb@Isaiah:32:24" @Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, 'With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

nasb@Isaiah:32:25 @'I dug wells and drank waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.'

nasb@Isaiah:32:26" @ Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

nasb@Isaiah:32:27" @Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

nasb@Isaiah:32:28" @But I know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me.

nasb@Isaiah:32:29" @Because of your raging against Me And because your arrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

nasb@Isaiah:32:30" @Then this shall be the sign for you- you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:32:31" @The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

nasb@Isaiah:32:32" @For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

nasb@Isaiah:32:33" @Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

nasb@Isaiah:32:34 @' By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:35 @'For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:36 @Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

nasb@Isaiah:32:37 @So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

nasb@Isaiah:32:38 @It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

nasb@Isaiah:33:1 @In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, ' Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'"

nasb@Isaiah:33:2 @Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

nasb@Isaiah:33:3 @and said, " Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

nasb@Isaiah:33:4 @Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:33:5" @Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

nasb@Isaiah:33:6" @I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."'

nasb@Isaiah:33:7" @This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken-

nasb@Isaiah:33:8" @Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

nasb@Isaiah:33:9 @A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery-

nasb@Isaiah:33:10 @I said, " In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."

nasb@Isaiah:33:11 @I said, "I will not see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

nasb@Isaiah:33:12" @Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

nasb@Isaiah:33:13" @I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion--so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me.

nasb@Isaiah:33:14" @ Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

nasb@Isaiah:33:15" @ What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

nasb@Isaiah:33:16" @O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live!

nasb@Isaiah:33:17" @Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

nasb@Isaiah:33:18" @For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

nasb@Isaiah:33:19" @It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

nasb@Isaiah:33:20" @The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD."

nasb@Isaiah:33:21 @Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

nasb@Isaiah:33:22 @Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORDNULL"

nasb@Isaiah:34:1 @At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2 @Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3 @Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."

nasb@Isaiah:34:4 @He said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them."

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts,

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @'And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."

nasb@Isaiah:34:40" @ Comfort, O comfort My people," says your God.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @ Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD'S hand Double for all her sins."

nasb@Isaiah:34:3 @A voice is calling, " Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @A voice says, "Call out." Then he answered, "What shall I call out?" All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, " Here is your God!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His recompense before Him.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11 @Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12 @Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales?

nasb@Isaiah:34:13 @Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

nasb@Isaiah:34:14 @With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding?

nasb@Isaiah:34:15 @Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

nasb@Isaiah:34:16 @Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

nasb@Isaiah:34:18 @To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

nasb@Isaiah:34:19 @As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @He who is too impoverished for such an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To prepare an idol that will not totter.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21 @Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @ To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?" says the Holy One.

nasb@Isaiah:34:26 @Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27 @Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God"?

nasb@Isaiah:34:28 @Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.

nasb@Isaiah:34:29 @He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power.

nasb@Isaiah:34:30 @Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly,

nasb@Isaiah:34:31 @Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

nasb@Isaiah:34:41" @ Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us come together for judgment.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @ Who has aroused one from the east Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him And subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @ Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? ' I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'"

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, "It is good"; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.

nasb@Isaiah:34:8" @But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts And said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:11" @Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored; Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12" @ You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them, Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13" @For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, ' Do not fear, I will help you.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:14" @Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.

nasb@Isaiah:34:16" @You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will rejoice in the LORD, You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:34:17" @The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:18" @I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19" @I will put the cedar in the wilderness, The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert Together with the box tree and the cypress,

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @That they may see and recognize, And consider and gain insight as well, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21" @Present your case," the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong arguments," The King of Jacob says.

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @I have aroused one from the north, and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar, Even as the potter treads clay."

nasb@Isaiah:34:26 @Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"? Surely there was no one who declared, Surely there was no one who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27" @ Formerly I said to Zion, 'Behold, here they are.' And to Jerusalem, 'I will give a messenger of good news.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:28" @But when I look, there is no one, And there is no counselor among them Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

nasb@Isaiah:34:29" @Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless, Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

nasb@Isaiah:34:42" @ Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law."

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,

nasb@Isaiah:34:6" @I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations,

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

nasb@Isaiah:34:8" @ I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9" @Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you."

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @Sing to the LORD a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11 @Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, The settlements where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12 @Let them give glory to the LORD And declare His praise in the coastlands.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13 @The LORD will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:34:14" @ I have kept silent for a long time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @I will lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds.

nasb@Isaiah:34:16" @I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone."

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

nasb@Isaiah:34:18 @Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19 @Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21 @The LORD was pleased for His righteousness' sake To make the law great and glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @But this is a people plundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, "Give them back!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

nasb@Isaiah:34:25 @So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

nasb@Isaiah:34:43 @But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

nasb@Isaiah:34:5" @Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, And gather you from the west.

nasb@Isaiah:34:6" @I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring My sons from afar And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made."

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @All the nations have gathered together So that the peoples may be assembled. Who among them can declare this And proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified, Or let them hear and say, "It is true."

nasb@Isaiah:34:10" @You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11" @I, even I, am the LORD, And there is no savior besides Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12" @It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And I am God.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13" @Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

nasb@Isaiah:34:14 @Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And will bring them all down as fugitives, Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King."

nasb@Isaiah:34:16 @Thus says the LORD, Who makes a way through the sea And a path through the mighty waters,

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick)-

nasb@Isaiah:34:18" @ Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19" @Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.

nasb@Isaiah:34:20" @The beasts of the field will glorify Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I have given waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My chosen people.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21" @The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise.

nasb@Isaiah:34:22" @Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:34:23" @You have not brought to Me the sheep of your burnt offerings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, Nor wearied you with incense.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24" @You have bought Me not sweet cane with money, Nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; Rather you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.

nasb@Isaiah:34:26" @Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; State your cause, that you may be proved right.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27" @Your first forefather sinned, And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:28" @So I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary, And I will consign Jacob to the ban and Israel to revilement.

nasb@Isaiah:35:1" @But now listen, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen-

nasb@Isaiah:35:2 @Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, ' Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

nasb@Isaiah:35:3 @'For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

nasb@Isaiah:35:4 @And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.'

nasb@Isaiah:35:5" @This one will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'Belonging to the LORD,' And will name Israel's name with honor.

nasb@Isaiah:35:6" @Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts- 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:7 @'Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to Me in order, From the time that I established the ancient nation. And let them declare to them the things that are coming And the events that are going to take place.

nasb@Isaiah:35:8 @'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:9 @Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:10 @Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

nasb@Isaiah:35:11 @Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:12 @The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

nasb@Isaiah:35:13 @Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.

nasb@Isaiah:35:14 @Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

nasb@Isaiah:35:15 @Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

nasb@Isaiah:35:16 @Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire."

nasb@Isaiah:35:17 @But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."

nasb@Isaiah:35:18 @They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

nasb@Isaiah:35:19 @No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"

nasb@Isaiah:35:20 @He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, " Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

nasb@Isaiah:35:21" @ Remember these things, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant, O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:22" @I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud And your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."

nasb@Isaiah:35:23 @Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; For the LORD has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth His glory.

nasb@Isaiah:35:24 @Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, "I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

nasb@Isaiah:35:25 @Causing the omens of boasters to fail, Making fools out of diviners, Causing wise men to draw back And turning their knowledge into foolishness,

nasb@Isaiah:35:26 @Confirming the word of His servant And performing the purpose of His messengers. It is I who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited!' And of the cities of Judah, ' They shall be built.' And I will raise up her ruins again.

nasb@Isaiah:35:27" @It is I who says to the depth of the sea, 'Be dried up!' And I will make your rivers dry.

nasb@Isaiah:35:28" @It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And he declares of Jerusalem, ' She will be built,' And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:45 @Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed, Whom I have taken by the right hand, To subdue nations before him And to loose the loins of kings; To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut-

nasb@Isaiah:35:2" @I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

nasb@Isaiah:35:3" @I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden wealth of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.

nasb@Isaiah:35:4" @For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:5" @I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me;

nasb@Isaiah:35:6 @That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,

nasb@Isaiah:35:7 @The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.

nasb@Isaiah:35:8" @ Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

nasb@Isaiah:35:9" @Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'?

nasb@Isaiah:35:10" @Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' Or to a woman, 'To what are you giving birth?'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:11 @Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker- " Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, And you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.

nasb@Isaiah:35:12" @It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands And I ordained all their host.

nasb@Isaiah:35:13" @I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and will let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:35:14 @Thus says the LORD, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will make supplication to you- 'Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:15 @Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!

nasb@Isaiah:35:16 @They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

nasb@Isaiah:35:17 @Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated To all eternity.

nasb@Isaiah:35:18 @For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.

nasb@Isaiah:35:19" @ I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ' Seek Me in a waste place'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.

nasb@Isaiah:35:20" @ Gather yourselves and come; Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations; They have no knowledge, Who carry about their wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.

nasb@Isaiah:35:21" @ Declare and set forth your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:22" @ Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.

nasb@Isaiah:35:23" @ I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

nasb@Isaiah:35:24" @They will say of Me, 'Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.' Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:25" @In the LORD all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will glory."

nasb@Isaiah:36:1 @Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary beast.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2 @They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not rescue the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.

nasb@Isaiah:36:3" @ Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;

nasb@Isaiah:36:4 @Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:5" @ To whom would you liken Me And make Me equal and compare Me, That we would be alike?

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @Those who lavish gold from the purse And weigh silver on the scale Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; They bow down, indeed they worship it.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it; They set it in its place and it stands there. It does not move from its place. Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer; It cannot deliver him from his distress.

nasb@Isaiah:36:8" @ Remember this, and be assured; Recall it to mind, you transgressors.

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,

nasb@Isaiah:36:10 @Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ' My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';

nasb@Isaiah:36:11 @Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.

nasb@Isaiah:36:12" @ Listen to Me, you stubborn-minded, Who are far from righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:36:13" @I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:36:47" @ Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2" @Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

nasb@Isaiah:36:3" @Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man."

nasb@Isaiah:36:4 @Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:36:5" @ Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @Yet you said, 'I will be a queen forever.' These things you did not consider Nor remember the outcome of them.

nasb@Isaiah:36:8" @Now, then, hear this, you sensual one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, ' I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day- Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

nasb@Isaiah:36:10" @You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ' No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ' I am, and there is no one besides me.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:11" @But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly.

nasb@Isaiah:36:12" @Stand fast now in your spells And in your many sorceries With which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you may cause trembling.

nasb@Isaiah:36:13" @You are wearied with your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:14" @Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by Nor a fire to sit before!

nasb@Isaiah:36:15" @So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:48" @ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel And who came forth from the loins of Judah, Who swear by the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth nor in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2" @For they call themselves after the holy city And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Isaiah:36:3" @I declared the former things long ago And they went forth from My mouth, and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

nasb@Isaiah:36:4" @Because I know that you are obstinate, And your neck is an iron sinew And your forehead bronze,

nasb@Isaiah:36:5 @Therefore I declared them to you long ago, Before they took place I proclaimed them to you, So that you would not say, 'My idol has done them, And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @You have heard; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Even hidden things which you have not known.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:8" @You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from birth.

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @ For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.

nasb@Isaiah:36:10" @Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

nasb@Isaiah:36:11" @ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.

nasb@Isaiah:36:12" @Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

nasb@Isaiah:36:13" @Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.

nasb@Isaiah:36:14" @ Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

nasb@Isaiah:36:15" @I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him, I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.

nasb@Isaiah:36:16" @ Come near to Me, listen to this- From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit."

nasb@Isaiah:36:17 @Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.

nasb@Isaiah:36:18" @If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:36:19" @Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence."

nasb@Isaiah:36:20 @Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this, Send it out to the end of the earth; Say, " The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob."

nasb@Isaiah:36:21 @They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He made the water flow out of the rock for them; He split the rock and the water gushed forth.

nasb@Isaiah:36:22" @ There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:37:1 @Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2 @He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.

nasb@Isaiah:37:3 @He said to Me, " You are My Servant, Israel, In Whom I will show My glory."

nasb@Isaiah:37:4 @But I said, "I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the LORD, And My reward with My God."

nasb@Isaiah:37:5 @And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of the LORD, And My God is My strength),

nasb@Isaiah:37:6 @He says, "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

nasb@Isaiah:37:7 @Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, " Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You."

nasb@Isaiah:37:8 @Thus says the LORD, "In a favorable time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Saying to those who are bound, 'Go forth,' To those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' Along the roads they will feed, And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

nasb@Isaiah:37:10" @They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them to springs of water.

nasb@Isaiah:37:11" @I will make all My mountains a road, And My highways will be raised up.

nasb@Isaiah:37:12" @Behold, these will come from afar; And lo, these will come from the north and from the west, And these from the land of Sinim."

nasb@Isaiah:37:13 @Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:37:14 @But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me."

nasb@Isaiah:37:15" @Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

nasb@Isaiah:37:16" @Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:17" @Your builders hurry; Your destroyers and devastators Will depart from you.

nasb@Isaiah:37:18" @ Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together, they come to you. As I live," declares the LORD, "You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.

nasb@Isaiah:37:19" @For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land-- Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:20" @The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, 'The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.'

nasb@Isaiah:37:21" @Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?'"

nasb@Isaiah:37:22 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My standard to the peoples; And they will bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

nasb@Isaiah:37:23" @ Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:37:24" @ Can the prey be taken from the mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"

nasb@Isaiah:37:25 @Surely, thus says the LORD, "Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away, And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; For I will contend with the one who contends with you, And I will save your sons.

nasb@Isaiah:37:26" @I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine; And all flesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

nasb@Isaiah:37:50 @Thus says the LORD, "Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2" @Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink for lack of water And die of thirst.

nasb@Isaiah:37:3" @I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."

nasb@Isaiah:37:4 @The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

nasb@Isaiah:37:5 @The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient Nor did I turn back.

nasb@Isaiah:37:6 @I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

nasb@Isaiah:37:7 @For the Lord GOD helps Me, Therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set My face like flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

nasb@Isaiah:37:8 @He who vindicates Me is near; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand up to each other; Who has a case against Me? Let him draw near to Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Behold, the Lord GOD helps Me; Who is he who condemns Me? Behold, they will all wear out like a garment; The moth will eat them.

nasb@Isaiah:37:10 @Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant, That walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

nasb@Isaiah:37:11 @Behold, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with firebrands, Walk in the light of your fire And among the brands you have set ablaze. This you will have from My hand- You will lie down in torment.

nasb@Isaiah:37:51" @ Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek the LORD- Look to the rock from which you were hewn And to the quarry from which you were dug.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2" @Look to Abraham your father And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was but one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him."

nasb@Isaiah:37:3 @Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

nasb@Isaiah:37:4" @ Pay attention to Me, O My people, And give ear to Me, O My nation; For a law will go forth from Me, And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:37:5" @My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.

nasb@Isaiah:37:6" @ Lift up your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not wane.

nasb@Isaiah:37:7" @ Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, Nor be dismayed at their revilings.

nasb@Isaiah:37:8" @For the moth will eat them like a garment, And the grub will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation to all generations."

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?

nasb@Isaiah:37:10 @Was it not You who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; Who made the depths of the sea a pathway For the redeemed to cross over?

nasb@Isaiah:37:11 @So the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:12" @I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies And of the son of man who is made like grass,

nasb@Isaiah:37:13 @That you have forgotten the LORD your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth, That you fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, As he makes ready to destroy? But where is the fury of the oppressor?

nasb@Isaiah:37:14" @The exile will soon be set free, and will not die in the dungeon, nor will his bread be lacking.

nasb@Isaiah:37:15" @For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).

nasb@Isaiah:37:16" @I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'"

nasb@Isaiah:37:17 @Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk from the LORD'S hand the cup of His anger; The chalice of reeling you have drained to the dregs.

nasb@Isaiah:37:18 @There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne, Nor is there one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.

nasb@Isaiah:37:19 @These two things have befallen you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you?

nasb@Isaiah:37:20 @Your sons have fainted, They lie helpless at the head of every street, Like an antelope in a net, Full of the wrath of the LORD, The rebuke of your God.

nasb@Isaiah:37:21 @Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine-

nasb@Isaiah:37:22 @Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God Who contends for His people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of reeling, The chalice of My anger; You will never drink it again.

nasb@Isaiah:37:23" @I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, Who have said to you, ' Lie down that we may walk over you.' You have even made your back like the ground And like the street for those who walk over it."

nasb@Isaiah:38:1 @Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you.

nasb@Isaiah:38:2 @Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:38:3 @For thus says the LORD, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money."

nasb@Isaiah:38:4 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

nasb@Isaiah:38:5" @Now therefore, what do I have here," declares the LORD, "seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?" Again the LORD declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.

nasb@Isaiah:38:6" @Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'"

nasb@Isaiah:38:7 @How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

nasb@Isaiah:38:8 @Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When the LORD restores Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:38:9 @Break forth, shout joyfully together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:38:10 @The LORD has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

nasb@Isaiah:38:11 @Depart, depart, go out from there, Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:38:12 @But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

nasb@Isaiah:38:13 @Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

nasb@Isaiah:38:14 @Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men.

nasb@Isaiah:38:15 @Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.

nasb@Isaiah:39:1 @Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

nasb@Isaiah:39:2 @For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3 @He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4 @Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5 @But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6 @All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8 @By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

nasb@Isaiah:39:9 @His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10 @But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12 @Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.

nasb@Isaiah:39:54" @ Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:2" @ Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords And strengthen your pegs.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3" @For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4" @Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5" @For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6" @For the LORD has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your God.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7" @For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8" @In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you," Says the LORD your Redeemer.

nasb@Isaiah:39:9" @For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10" @For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the LORD who has compassion on you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:11" @O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12" @Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies, And your gates of crystal, And your entire wall of precious stones.

nasb@Isaiah:39:13" @ All your sons will be taught of the LORD; And the well-being of your sons will be great.

nasb@Isaiah:39:14" @In righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:15" @If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me. Whoever assails you will fall because of you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:16" @Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals And brings out a weapon for its work; And I have created the destroyer to ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:39:17" @ No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:55" @Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.

nasb@Isaiah:39:2" @Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3" @ Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4" @Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, A leader and commander for the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5" @Behold, you will call a nation you do not know, And a nation which knows you not will run to you, Because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."

nasb@Isaiah:39:6 @Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8" @For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:9" @For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10" @For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12" @For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:39:13" @Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off."

nasb@Isaiah:39:56 @Thus says the LORD, " Preserve justice and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And My righteousness to be revealed.

nasb@Isaiah:39:2" @How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil."

nasb@Isaiah:39:3 @Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from His people." Nor let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

nasb@Isaiah:39:4 @For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,

nasb@Isaiah:39:5 @To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6" @Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant;

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."

nasb@Isaiah:39:8 @The Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, "Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered."

nasb@Isaiah:39:9 @All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10 @His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12" @Come," they say, "let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; And tomorrow will be like today, only more so."

nasb@Isaiah:40:1 @The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

nasb@Isaiah:40:2 @He enters into peace; They rest in their beds, Each one who walked in his upright way.

nasb@Isaiah:40:3" @But come here, you sons of a sorceress, Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

nasb@Isaiah:40:4" @Against whom do you jest? Against whom do you open wide your mouth And stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, Offspring of deceit,

nasb@Isaiah:40:5 @Who inflame yourselves among the oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the crags?

nasb@Isaiah:40:6" @Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have made a grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these things?

nasb@Isaiah:40:7" @Upon a high and lofty mountain You have made your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

nasb@Isaiah:40:8" @Behind the door and the doorpost You have set up your sign; Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself, And have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have made an agreement for yourself with them, You have loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood.

nasb@Isaiah:40:9" @You have journeyed to the king with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent your envoys a great distance And made them go down to Sheol.

nasb@Isaiah:40:10" @You were tired out by the length of your road, Yet you did not say, ' It is hopeless.' You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not faint.

nasb@Isaiah:40:11" @Of whom were you worried and fearful When you lied, and did not remember Me Nor give Me a thought? Was I not silent even for a long time So you do not fear Me?

nasb@Isaiah:40:12" @I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

nasb@Isaiah:40:13" @When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry all of them up, And a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land And will possess My holy mountain."

nasb@Isaiah:40:14 @And it will be said, " Build up, build up, prepare the way, Remove every obstacle out of the way of My people."

nasb@Isaiah:40:15 @For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.

nasb@Isaiah:40:16" @For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would grow faint before Me, And the breath of those whom I have made.

nasb@Isaiah:40:17" @Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My face and was angry, And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

nasb@Isaiah:40:18" @I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

nasb@Isaiah:40:19 @Creating the praise of the lips. Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "and I will heal him."

nasb@Isaiah:40:20 @But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

nasb@Isaiah:40:21" @ There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

nasb@Isaiah:40:58" @ Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

nasb@Isaiah:40:2" @Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They delight in the nearness of God.

nasb@Isaiah:40:3 @'Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?' Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, And drive hard all your workers.

nasb@Isaiah:40:4" @Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.

nasb@Isaiah:40:5" @Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?

nasb@Isaiah:40:6" @Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?

nasb@Isaiah:40:7" @Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

nasb@Isaiah:40:8" @Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery will speedily spring forth; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

nasb@Isaiah:40:9" @Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; You will cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

nasb@Isaiah:40:10 @And if you give yourself to the hungry And satisfy the desire of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness And your gloom will become like midday.

nasb@Isaiah:40:11" @And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

nasb@Isaiah:40:12" @Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

nasb@Isaiah:40:13" @If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, From seeking your own pleasure And speaking your own word,

nasb@Isaiah:40:14 @Then you will take delight in the LORD, And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:41:1 @Behold, the LORD'S hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.

nasb@Isaiah:41:2 @But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

nasb@Isaiah:41:3 @For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue mutters wickedness.

nasb@Isaiah:41:4 @No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:41:5 @They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

nasb@Isaiah:41:6 @Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:41:7 @Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

nasb@Isaiah:41:8 @They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

nasb@Isaiah:41:9 @Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

nasb@Isaiah:41:10 @We grope along the wall like blind men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

nasb@Isaiah:41:11 @All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

nasb@Isaiah:41:12 @For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And we know our iniquities-

nasb@Isaiah:41:13 @Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

nasb@Isaiah:41:14 @Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter.

nasb@Isaiah:41:15 @Yes, truth is lacking; And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. Now the LORD saw, And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

nasb@Isaiah:41:16 @And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, And His righteousness upheld Him.

nasb@Isaiah:41:17 @He put on righteousness like a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

nasb@Isaiah:41:18 @According to their deeds, so He will repay, Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; To the coastlands He will make recompense.

nasb@Isaiah:41:19 @So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream Which the wind of the LORD drives.

nasb@Isaiah:41:20" @A Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:41:21" @As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the LORD- "My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says the LORD, "from now and forever."

nasb@Isaiah:41:60" @ Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:2" @For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you And His glory will appear upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:3" @ Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

nasb@Isaiah:41:4" @ Lift up your eyes round about and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters will be carried in the arms.

nasb@Isaiah:41:5" @Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:6" @A multitude of camels will cover you, The young camels of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba will come; They will bring gold and frankincense, And will bear good news of the praises of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:41:7" @All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you; They will go up with acceptance on My altar, And I shall glorify My glorious house.

nasb@Isaiah:41:8" @ Who are these who fly like a cloud And like the doves to their lattices?

nasb@Isaiah:41:9" @Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of the LORD your God, And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:10" @ Foreigners will build up your walls, And their kings will minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:11" @Your gates will be open continually; They will not be closed day or night, So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, With their kings led in procession.

nasb@Isaiah:41:12" @For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish, And the nations will be utterly ruined.

nasb@Isaiah:41:13" @The glory of Lebanon will come to you, The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:41:14" @The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet; And they will call you the city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:41:15" @Whereas you have been forsaken and hated With no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, A joy from generation to generation.

nasb@Isaiah:41:16" @You will also suck the milk of nations And suck the breast of kings; Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

nasb@Isaiah:41:17" @Instead of bronze I will bring gold, And instead of iron I will bring silver, And instead of wood, bronze, And instead of stones, iron. And I will make peace your administrators And righteousness your overseers.

nasb@Isaiah:41:18" @ Violence will not be heard again in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within your borders; But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

nasb@Isaiah:41:19" @No longer will you have the sun for light by day, Nor for brightness will the moon give you light; But you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And your God for your glory.

nasb@Isaiah:41:20" @Your sun will no longer set, Nor will your moon wane; For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And the days of your mourning will be over.

nasb@Isaiah:41:21" @Then all your people will be righteous; They will possess the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

nasb@Isaiah:41:22" @The smallest one will become a clan, And the least one a mighty nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time."

nasb@Isaiah:42:1 @The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;

nasb@Isaiah:42:2 @To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

nasb@Isaiah:42:3 @To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

nasb@Isaiah:42:4 @Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, They will raise up the former devastations; And they will repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

nasb@Isaiah:42:5 @Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

nasb@Isaiah:42:6 @But you will be called the priests of the LORD; You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And in their riches you will boast.

nasb@Isaiah:42:7 @Instead of your shame you will have a double portion, And instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore they will possess a double portion in their land, Everlasting joy will be theirs.

nasb@Isaiah:42:8 @For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them.

nasb@Isaiah:42:9 @Then their offspring will be known among the nations, And their descendants in the midst of the peoples. All who see them will recognize them Because they are the offspring whom the LORD has blessed.

nasb@Isaiah:42:10 @I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

nasb@Isaiah:42:11 @For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise To spring up before all the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:43:1 @For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

nasb@Isaiah:43:2 @The nations will see your righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you will be called by a new name Which the mouth of the LORD will designate.

nasb@Isaiah:43:3 @You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, And a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

nasb@Isaiah:43:4 @It will no longer be said to you, " Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be said, "Desolate"; But you will be called, "My delight is in her," And your land, " Married"; For the LORD delights in you, And to Him your land will be married.

nasb@Isaiah:43:5 @For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

nasb@Isaiah:43:6 @On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves;

nasb@Isaiah:43:7 @And give Him no rest until He establishes And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:43:8 @The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, "I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored."

nasb@Isaiah:43:9 @But those who garner it will eat it and praise the LORD; And those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

nasb@Isaiah:43:10 @Go through, go through the gates, Clear the way for the people; Build up, build up the highway, Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:43:11 @Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, "Lo, your salvation comes; Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him."

nasb@Isaiah:43:12 @And they will call them, " The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD"; And you will be called, "Sought out, a city not forsaken."

nasb@Isaiah:44:1 @Who is this who comes from Edom, With garments of glowing colors from Bozrah, This One who is majestic in His apparel, Marching in the greatness of His strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

nasb@Isaiah:44:2 @Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

nasb@Isaiah:44:3" @ I have trodden the wine trough alone, And from the peoples there was no man with Me. I also trod them in My anger And trampled them in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, And I stained all My raiment.

nasb@Isaiah:44:4" @For the day of vengeance was in My heart, And My year of redemption has come.

nasb@Isaiah:44:5" @I looked, and there was no one to help, And I was astonished and there was no one to uphold; So My own arm brought salvation to Me, And My wrath upheld Me.

nasb@Isaiah:44:6" @I trod down the peoples in My anger And made them drunk in My wrath, And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

nasb@Isaiah:44:7 @I shall make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has granted us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has granted them according to His compassion And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

nasb@Isaiah:44:8 @For He said, "Surely, they are My people, Sons who will not deal falsely." So He became their Savior.

nasb@Isaiah:44:9 @In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

nasb@Isaiah:44:10 @But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy, He fought against them.

nasb@Isaiah:44:11 @Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,

nasb@Isaiah:44:12 @Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, Who divided the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,

nasb@Isaiah:44:13 @Who led them through the depths? Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble;

nasb@Isaiah:44:14 @As the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So You led Your people, To make for Yourself a glorious name.

nasb@Isaiah:44:15 @Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me.

nasb@Isaiah:44:16 @For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us And Israel does not recognize us. You, O LORD, are our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

nasb@Isaiah:44:17 @Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

nasb@Isaiah:44:18 @Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while, Our adversaries have trodden it down.

nasb@Isaiah:44:19 @We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name.

nasb@Isaiah:45:1 @Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence--

nasb@Isaiah:45:2 @As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

nasb@Isaiah:45:3 @When You did awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:45:5 @You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved?

nasb@Isaiah:45:6 @For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

nasb@Isaiah:45:7 @There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:45:8 @But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.

nasb@Isaiah:45:9 @Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

nasb@Isaiah:45:10 @Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

nasb@Isaiah:45:11 @Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O LORDNULL Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measureNULL

nasb@Isaiah:45:65" @I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' To a nation which did not call on My name.

nasb@Isaiah:45:2" @ I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts,

nasb@Isaiah:45:3 @A people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places; Who eat swine's flesh, And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

nasb@Isaiah:45:5" @Who say, ' Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am holier than you!' These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

nasb@Isaiah:45:6" @Behold, it is written before Me, I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will even repay into their bosom,

nasb@Isaiah:45:7 @Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together," says the LORD. "Because they have burned incense on the mountains And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom."

nasb@Isaiah:45:8 @Thus says the LORD, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, 'Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,' So I will act on behalf of My servants In order not to destroy all of them.

nasb@Isaiah:45:9" @I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, And an heir of My mountains from Judah; Even My chosen ones shall inherit it, And My servants will dwell there.

nasb@Isaiah:45:10" @ Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks, And the valley of Achor a resting place for herds, For My people who seek Me.

nasb@Isaiah:45:11" @But you who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for Fortune, And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear. And you did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."

nasb@Isaiah:45:13 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:45:14" @Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart, But you will cry out with a heavy heart, And you will wail with a broken spirit.

nasb@Isaiah:45:15" @You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord GOD will slay you. But My servants will be called by another name.

nasb@Isaiah:45:16" @Because he who is blessed in the earth Will be blessed by the God of truth; And he who swears in the earth Will swear by the God of truth; Because the former troubles are forgotten, And because they are hidden from My sight!

nasb@Isaiah:45:17" @For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.

nasb@Isaiah:45:18" @But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing And her people for gladness.

nasb@Isaiah:45:19" @I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

nasb@Isaiah:45:20" @No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be thought accursed.

nasb@Isaiah:45:21" @They will build houses and inhabit them; They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:45:22" @They will not build and another inhabit, They will not plant and another eat; For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:45:23" @They will not labor in vain, Or bear children for calamity; For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD, And their descendants with them.

nasb@Isaiah:45:24" @It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

nasb@Isaiah:45:25" @The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:66 @Thus says the LORD, " Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?

nasb@Isaiah:45:2" @For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

nasb@Isaiah:45:3" @But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine's blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @So I will choose their punishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."

nasb@Isaiah:45:5 @Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word- "Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name's sake, Have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy.' But they will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:45:6" @A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:45:7" @Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

nasb@Isaiah:45:8" @ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.

nasb@Isaiah:45:9" @Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your God.

nasb@Isaiah:45:10" @Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,

nasb@Isaiah:45:11 @That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom."

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

nasb@Isaiah:45:13" @As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem."

nasb@Isaiah:45:14 @Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:45:15 @For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.

nasb@Isaiah:45:16 @For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

nasb@Isaiah:45:17" @Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in the center, Who eat swine's flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an end altogether," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:18" @For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

nasb@Isaiah:45:19" @I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations- Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:45:20" @Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:21" @I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:22" @For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "So your offspring and your name will endure.

nasb@Isaiah:45:23" @And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:24" @Then they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm will not die And their fire will not be quenched; And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:1 @The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

nasb@Jeremiah:1:2 @to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:3 @It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:4 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:1:5" @Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:6 @Then I said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:7 @But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:8" @ Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:9 @Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:10" @See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:11 @The word of the LORD came to me saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:12 @Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:13 @The word of the LORD came to me a second time saying, " What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:14 @Then the LORD said to me, " Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:15" @For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north," declares the LORD; "and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:16" @I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:17" @Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:18" @Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:1" @They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2" @Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3" @Israel was holy to the LORD, The first of His harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; Evil came upon them," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:2:4 @Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:5 @Thus says the LORD, " What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me And walked after emptiness and became empty?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:6" @They did not say, 'Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no man dwelt?'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:7" @I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:8" @The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rulers also transgressed against Me, And the prophets prophesied by Baal And walked after things that did not profit.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:9" @Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:10" @For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely And see if there has been such a thing as this!

nasb@Jeremiah:2:11" @Has a nation changed gods When they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory For that which does not profit.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:12" @Be appalled, O heavens, at this, And shudder, be very desolate," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:13" @For My people have committed two evils- They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:14" @Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:15" @The young lions have roared at him, They have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:16" @Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have shaved the crown of your head.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:17" @Have you not done this to yourself By your forsaking the LORD your God When He led you in the way?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:18" @But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the Euphrates?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:19" @ Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will reprove you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to forsake the LORD your God, And the dread of Me is not in you," declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:20" @For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your bonds; But you said, 'I will not serve!' For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down as a harlot.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:21" @Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:22" @Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquity is before Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:23" @ How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:24 @A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. In the time of her heat who can turn her away? All who seek her will not become weary; In her month they will find her.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:25" @Keep your feet from being unshod And your throat from thirst; But you said, ' It is hopeless! No! For I have loved strangers, And after them I will walk.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:26" @As the thief is shamed when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their princes And their priests and their prophets,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:27 @Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to Me, And not their face; But in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise and save us.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:28" @But where are your gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you In the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:29" @Why do you contend with Me? You have all transgressed against Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:30" @ In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:31" @O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ' We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You'?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:32" @Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:33" @How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:34" @Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:35 @Yet you said, 'I am innocent; Surely His anger is turned away from me.' Behold, I will enter into judgment with you Because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:36" @Why do you go around so much Changing your way? Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt As you were put to shame by Assyria.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:37" @From this place also you will go out With your hands on your head; For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, And you will not prosper with them."

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3 @God says, " If a husband divorces his wife And she goes from him And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlot with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2" @Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3" @Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:4" @Have you not just now called to Me, ' My Father, You are the friend of my youth?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:5 @' Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way."

nasb@Jeremiah:2:6 @Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:7" @ I thought, 'After she has done all these things she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:8" @And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:9" @Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:10" @Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:11 @And the LORD said to me, " Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:12" @Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ' Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD; ' I will not look upon you in anger. For I am gracious,' declares the LORD; 'I will not be angry forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:13 @'Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:14 @'Return, O faithless sons,' declares the LORD; 'For I am a master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And I will bring you to Zion.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:15" @Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:16" @It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land," declares the LORD, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:17" @At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of the LORD,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:18" @ In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:19" @Then I said, 'How I would set you among My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!' And I said, 'You shall call Me, My Father, And not turn away from following Me.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:20" @Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her lover, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:21 @A voice is heard on the bare heights, The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel; Because they have perverted their way, They have forgotten the LORD their God.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:22" @Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:23" @Surely, the hills are a deception, A tumult on the mountains. Surely in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:24" @But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:25" @Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:1" @If you will return, O Israel," declares the LORD, "Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from My presence, And will not waver,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2 @And you will swear, 'As the LORD lives,' In truth, in justice and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will glory."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, " Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD And remove the foreskins of your heart, Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Or else My wrath will go forth like fire And burn with none to quench it, Because of the evil of your deeds."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5 @Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, " Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry aloud and say, ' Assemble yourselves, and let us go Into the fortified cities.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @Lift up a standard toward Zion! Seek refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins Without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @For this, put on sackcloth, Lament and wail; For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @It shall come about in that day," declares the LORD, "that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ' You will have peace'; whereas a sword touches the throat."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11 @In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people--not to winnow and not to cleanse,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12 @a wind too strong for this--will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts Lodge within you?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15 @For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @Report it to the nations, now! Proclaim over Jerusalem, 'Besiegers come from a far country, And lift their voices against the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17 @'Like watchmen of a field they are against her round about, Because she has rebelled against Me,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Your ways and your deeds Have brought these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19 @My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20 @Disaster on disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, My curtains in an instant.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @How long must I see the standard And hear the sound of the trumpet?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22" @ For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23 @I looked on the earth, and behold, it was formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @I looked, and behold, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27 @For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28" @For this the earth shall mourn And the heavens above be dark, Because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I will not change My mind, nor will I turn from it."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every city is forsaken, And no man dwells in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30 @And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31 @For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, "Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @ Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take note. And seek in her open squares, If you can find a man, If there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, Then I will pardon her.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @And although they say, 'As the LORD lives,' Surely they swear falsely."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4 @Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD Or the ordinance of their God.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @I will go to the great And will speak to them, For they know the way of the LORD And the ordinance of their God." But they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke And burst the bonds.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many, Their apostasies are numerous.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @Why should I pardon you? Your sons have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, They committed adultery And trooped to the harlot's house.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @Shall I not punish these people," declares the LORD, "And on a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10" @Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the LORD'S.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12 @They have lied about the LORD And said, " Not He; Misfortune will not come on us, And we will not see sword or famine.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire And this people wood, and it will consume them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @Their quiver is like an open grave, All of them are mighty men.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not make you a complete destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @It shall come about when they say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20" @Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @'Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes but do not see; Who have ears but do not hear.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23 @'But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and departed.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @'They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn rain and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @'Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27 @'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28 @'They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @' Shall I not punish these people?' declares the LORD, 'On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30" @An appalling and horrible thing Has happened in the land-

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31 @The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it so! But what will you do at the end of itNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem! Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, And a great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3" @ Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Prepare war against her; Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, " Cut down her trees And cast up a siege against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, In whose midst there is only oppression.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @ As a well keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @ Be warned, O Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, A land not inhabited."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer Over the branches."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11 @But I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary with holding it in. " Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The aged and the very old.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @Their houses shall be turned over to others, Their fields and their wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14" @They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16 @Thus says the LORD, "Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @And I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Therefore hear, O nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @ Hear, O earth- behold, I am bringing disaster on this people, The fruit of their plans, Because they have not listened to My words, And as for My law, they have rejected it also.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20" @ For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba And the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. And they will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbor and friend will perish."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @Thus says the LORD, "Behold, a people is coming from the north land, And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23" @They seize bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea, And they ride on horses, Arrayed as a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Zion!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us, Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27" @I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28 @All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30 @They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7 @The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @ Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house and proclaim there this word and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the LORD!'"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7 @then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, 'We are delivered!'--that you may do all these abominations?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @And now, because you have done all these things," declares the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @ Do they spite Me?" declares the LORD. "Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22" @For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23" @But this is what I commanded them, saying, ' Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24" @Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25" @Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26" @Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27" @You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28" @You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @' Cut off your hair and cast it away, And take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30" @For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight," declares the LORD, "they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31" @They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:32" @ Therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:33" @The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:34" @Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @At that time," declares the LORD, "they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3" @And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @ How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10" @Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed, And they did not know how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down," Says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @I will surely snatch them away," declares the LORD; "There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, Because the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For we have sinned against the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15 @We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16 @From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @For behold, I am sending serpents against you, Adders, for which there is no charm, And they will bite you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18 @My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19 @Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land- "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?" "Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20" @Harvest is past, summer is ended, And we are not saved."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @Is there no balm in GileadNULL Is there no physician thereNULL Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restoredNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:4:1 @Oh that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!

nasb@Jeremiah:4:2 @Oh that I had in the desert A wayfarers' lodging place; That I might leave my people And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:3" @They bend their tongue like their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:4" @Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:5" @Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:6" @Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:7 @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I will refine them and assay them; For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:8" @Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:9" @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:10" @For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge, Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:11" @I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A haunt of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

nasb@Jeremiah:4:12 @Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:13 @The LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

nasb@Jeremiah:4:14 @but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:15 @therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:16" @I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them."

nasb@Jeremiah:4:17 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

nasb@Jeremiah:4:18" @Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:19" @For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, ' How are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have left the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:20 @Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:21 @For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:22 @Speak, "Thus says the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:23 @Thus says the LORD, " Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

nasb@Jeremiah:4:24 @but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:25" @Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised--

nasb@Jeremiah:4:26 @Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:1 @Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:2 @Thus says the LORD, " Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:3 @For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:4" @They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:5" @Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:6 @There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your name in might.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:7 @Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:8 @But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion--their idol is wood!

nasb@Jeremiah:5:9 @Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; Violet and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skilled men.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:10 @But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @Thus you shall say to them, "The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:12 @It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:13 @When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:14 @Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:15 @They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:16 @The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:17 @Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who dwell under siege!

nasb@Jeremiah:5:18 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land At this time, And will cause them distress, That they may be found."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:19 @Woe is me, because of my injury! My wound is incurable. But I said, "Truly this is a sickness, And I must bear it."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:20 @My tent is destroyed, And all my ropes are broken; My sons have gone from me and are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again Or to set up my curtains.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:21 @For the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:22 @The sound of a report! Behold, it comes-- A great commotion out of the land of the north-- To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:23 @I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself, Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:24 @Correct me, O LORD, but with justice; Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:25 @Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You And on the families that do not call Your name; For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and consumed him And have laid waste his habitation.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:5:2" @ Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:3 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, " Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

nasb@Jeremiah:5:4 @which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ' Listen to My voice, and do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,'

nasb@Jeremiah:5:5 @in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day."'" Then I said, " Amen, O LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:6 @And the LORD said to me, " Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ' Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:7 @'For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning persistently, saying, " Listen to My voice."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:8 @'Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:5:9 @Then the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:10" @They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:12" @Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:13" @For your gods are as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:14" @Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:15" @What right has My beloved in My house When she has done many vile deeds? Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster, So that you can rejoice?"

nasb@Jeremiah:5:16 @The LORD called your name, "A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form"; With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:17 @The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me by offering up sacrifices to Baal.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:18 @Moreover, the LORD made it known to me and I knew it; Then You showed me their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:19 @But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, And let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name be remembered no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:20 @But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, Who tries the feelings and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You have I committed my cause.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:21 @Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, " Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, so that you will not die at our hand";

nasb@Jeremiah:5:22 @therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I am about to punish them! The young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:23 @and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth-- the year of their punishment."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:1 @Righteous are You, O LORD, that I would plead my case with You; Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You- Why has the way of the wicked prospered? Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

nasb@Jeremiah:6:2 @You have planted them, they have also taken root; They grow, they have even produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:3 @But You know me, O LORD; You see me; And You examine my heart's attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter And set them apart for a day of carnage!

nasb@Jeremiah:6:4 @How long is the land to mourn And the vegetation of the countryside to wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, Animals and birds have been snatched away, Because men have said, "He will not see our latter ending."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:5" @If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

nasb@Jeremiah:6:6" @For even your brothers and the household of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you, Even they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them, although they may say nice things to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:7" @I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:8" @My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:9" @Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the birds of prey against her on every side? Go, gather all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!

nasb@Jeremiah:6:10" @Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:11" @It has been made a desolation, Desolate, it mourns before Me; The whole land has been made desolate, Because no man lays it to heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:12" @On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For a sword of the LORD is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:13" @They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:14 @Thus says the LORD concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, "Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:15" @And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:16" @Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:17" @But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:1 @Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2 @So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3 @Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5 @So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD had commanded me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6 @After many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7 @Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9" @Thus says the LORD, 'Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @'This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @'For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,' declares the LORD, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @Therefore you are to speak this word to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with wine."' And when they say to you, 'Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @then say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land--the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem--with drunkenness!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares the LORD. "I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @Listen and give heed, do not be haughty, For the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @Give glory to the LORD your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it into gloom.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17 @But if you will not listen to it, My soul will sob in secret for such pride; And my eyes will bitterly weep And flow down with tears, Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @Say to the king and the queen mother, " Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carried into exile, Wholly carried into exile.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20" @Lift up your eyes and see Those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, Your beautiful sheep?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @What will you say when He appoints over you-- And you yourself had taught them-- Former companions to be head over you? Will not pangs take hold of you Like a woman in childbirth?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:22" @If you say in your heart, ' Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the magnitude of your iniquity Your skirts have been removed And your heels have been exposed.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:23" @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:24" @Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw To the desert wind.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:25" @This is your lot, the portion measured to you From Me," declares the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:26" @So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face, That your shame may be seen.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:27" @As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain uncleanNULL"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in regard to the drought-

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2" @Judah mourns And her gates languish; They sit on the ground in mourning, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3" @Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their vessels empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land; The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5" @For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young, Because there is no grass.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7" @Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for Your name's sake! Truly our apostasies have been many, We have sinned against You.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9" @Why are You like a man dismayed, Like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet You are in our midst, O LORD, And we are called by Your name; Do not forsake us!"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @Thus says the LORD to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @So the LORD said to me, " Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @But, "Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "Look, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14 @Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15" @Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them--yet they keep saying, 'There will be no sword or famine in this land'-- by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16" @The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them--neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters--for I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17" @You will say this word to them, ' Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @'If I go out to the country, Behold, those slain with the sword! Or if I enter the city, Behold, diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest Have gone roving about in the land that they do not know.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @Have You completely rejected Judah? Or have You loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20 @We know our wickedness, O LORD, The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21 @Do not despise us, for Your own name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:22 @Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rainNULL Or can the heavens grant showersNULL Is it not You, O LORD our GodNULL Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @Then the LORD said to me, "Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2" @And it shall be that when they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you are to tell them, 'Thus says the LORD- "Those destined for death, to death; And those destined for the sword, to the sword; And those destined for famine, to famine; And those destined for captivity, to captivity."'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3" @I will appoint over them four kinds of doom," declares the LORD- "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @I will make them an object of horror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5" @Indeed, who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, Or who will mourn for you, Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @You who have forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7" @I will winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; They did not repent of their ways.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her Anguish and dismay.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9" @She who bore seven sons pines away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was yet day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will give over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @The LORD said, "Surely I will set you free for purposes of good; Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13" @Your wealth and your treasures I will give for booty without cost, Even for all your sins And within all your borders.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @Then I will cause your enemies to bring it Into a land you do not know; For a fire has been kindled in My anger, It will burn upon you."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @You who know, O LORD, Remember me, take notice of me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17 @I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream With water that is unreliable?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, " If you return, then I will restore you-- Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, But as for you, you must not turn to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20" @Then I will make you to this people A fortified wall of bronze; And though they fight against you, They will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @So I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @The word of the LORD also came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2" @You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3 @For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land-

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5 @For thus says the LORD, "Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people," declares the LORD, "My lovingkindness and compassion.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7" @Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- "Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10" @Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ' For what reason has the LORD declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the LORD our God?'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11" @Then you are to say to them, 'It is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12 @'You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @'So I will hurl you out of this land into the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @ Therefore behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.' For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16" @Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17" @ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18" @I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, And my refuge in the day of distress, To You the nations will come From the ends of the earth and say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, Futility and things of no profit."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20 @Can man make gods for himself? Yet they are not gods!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @Therefore behold, I am going to make them know-- This time I will make them know My power and My might; And they shall know that My name is the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:1 @The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus; With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart And on the horns of their altars,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2 @As they remember their children, So they remember their altars and their Asherim By green trees on the high hills.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @O mountain of Mine in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures for booty, Your high places for sin throughout your borders.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4 @And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance That I gave you; And I will make you serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger Which will burn forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @Thus says the LORD, " Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6" @For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:7" @ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8" @For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10" @I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11" @As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12 @A glorious throne on high from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13 @O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15 @Look, they keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:16 @But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, Nor have I longed for the woeful day; You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips Was in Your presence.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:17 @Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster, And crush them with twofold destruction!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:20 @and say to them, ' Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates-

nasb@Jeremiah:8:21 @'Thus says the LORD, " Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:22" @You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:23" @Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:24" @But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me," declares the LORD, "to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:25 @then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:26" @They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:27" @But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2" @Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4 @But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6" @Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:7" @At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8 @if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant it;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10 @if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11" @So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and reform your ways and your deeds."'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12" @But they will say, 'It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13" @Therefore thus says the LORD, ' Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @'Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15 @'For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense to worthless gods And they have stumbled from their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in bypaths, Not on a highway,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:16 @To make their land a desolation, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:17 @'Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Do give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to what my opponents are saying!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:20 @Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good on their behalf, So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:21 @Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:22 @May an outcry be heard from their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:23 @Yet You, O LORD, know All their deadly designs against me; Do not forgive their iniquity Or blot out their sin from Your sight. But may they be overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2" @Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem- thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4" @Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6 @therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:7" @I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8" @I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them."'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10" @Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12" @This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13" @The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house and said to all the people-

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:9:1 @When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:2 @Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:3 @On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Pashhur is not the name the LORD has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:4" @For thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as exiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:5 @'I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:6 @'And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:9:7 @O LORD, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:8 @For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the LORD has resulted In reproach and derision all day long.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:9 @But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:10 @For I have heard the whispering of many, " Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!" All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say- "Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him."

nasb@Jeremiah:9:11 @But the LORD is with me like a dread champion; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed, With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:12 @Yet, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, Who see the mind and the heart; Let me see Your vengeance on them; For to You I have set forth my cause.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:13 @Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD! For He has delivered the soul of the needy one From the hand of evildoers.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:14 @Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

nasb@Jeremiah:9:15 @Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" And made him very happy.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:16 @But let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew without relenting, And let him hear an outcry in the morning And a shout of alarm at noon;

nasb@Jeremiah:9:17 @Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:18 @Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shameNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:9:21 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:2" @Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us."

nasb@Jeremiah:9:3 @Then Jeremiah said to them, "You shall say to Zedekiah as follows-

nasb@Jeremiah:9:4 @'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:5" @I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, even in anger and wrath and great indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:6" @I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:7" @Then afterwards," declares the LORD, " I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion."'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:8" @You shall also say to this people, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:9" @He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:10" @For I have set My face against this city for harm and not for good," declares the LORD. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire."'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:11" @Then say to the household of the king of Judah, 'Hear the word of the LORD,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:12 @O house of David, thus says the LORD- " Administer justice every morning; And deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor, That My wrath may not go forth like fire And burn with none to extinguish it, Because of the evil of their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:13" @Behold, I am against you, O valley dweller, O rocky plain," declares the LORD, "You men who say, ' Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:14" @But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds," declares the LORD, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its environs."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:1 @Thus says the LORD, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word

nasb@Jeremiah:10:2 @and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on David's throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:3 @'Thus says the LORD, " Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:4" @For if you men will indeed perform this thing, then kings will enter the gates of this house, sitting in David's place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself and his servants and his people.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:5" @ But if you will not obey these words, I swear by Myself," declares the LORD, "that this house will become a desolation."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:6 @For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah- "You are like Gilead to Me, Like the summit of Lebanon; Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, Like cities which are not inhabited.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:7" @For I will set apart destroyers against you, Each with his weapons; And they will cut down your choicest cedars And throw them on the fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:8" @Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?'

nasb@Jeremiah:10:9" @Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:10 @Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep continually for the one who goes away; For he will never return Or see his native land.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:11 @For thus says the LORD in regard to Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, "He will never return there;

nasb@Jeremiah:10:12 @but in the place where they led him captive, there he will die and not see this land again.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:13" @Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor's services without pay And does not give him his wages,

nasb@Jeremiah:10:14 @Who says, 'I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.'

nasb@Jeremiah:10:15" @Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:16" @He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; Then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:17" @But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion."

nasb@Jeremiah:10:18 @Therefore thus says the LORD in regard to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, "They will not lament for him- ' Alas, my brother!' or, 'Alas, sister!' They will not lament for him: 'Alas for the master!' or, 'Alas for his splendor!'

nasb@Jeremiah:10:19" @He will be buried with a donkey's burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:20" @Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan; Cry out also from Abarim, For all your lovers have been crushed.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:21" @I spoke to you in your prosperity; But you said, 'I will not listen!' This has been your practice from your youth, That you have not obeyed My voice.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:22" @The wind will sweep away all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into captivity; Then you will surely be ashamed and humiliated Because of all your wickedness.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:23" @You who dwell in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!

nasb@Jeremiah:10:24" @As I live," declares the LORD, "even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off;

nasb@Jeremiah:10:25 @and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:26" @I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:27" @But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:28" @Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been hurled out And cast into a land that they had not known?

nasb@Jeremiah:10:29" @ O land, land, land, Hear the word of the LORD!

nasb@Jeremiah:10:30" @Thus says the LORD, 'Write this man down childless, A man who will not prosper in his days; For no man of his descendants will prosper Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:11:1" @ Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:2 @Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people- "You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:3" @Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:4" @I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:5" @Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:6" @In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The LORD our righteousness.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:7" @ Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when they will no longer say, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:8 @but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil."

nasb@Jeremiah:11:9 @As for the prophets- My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, Even like a man overcome with wine, Because of the LORD And because of His holy words.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:10 @For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil And their might is not right.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:11" @For both prophet and priest are polluted; Even in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:12" @Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them, They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will bring calamity upon them, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:13" @Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing- They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:14" @Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing- The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:15" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:11:16 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, " Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:17" @They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD has said, " You will have peace"'; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, ' Calamity will not come upon you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:18" @But who has stood in the council of the LORD, That he should see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:19" @Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:20" @The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand it.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:21" @ I did not send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they prophesied.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:22" @But if they had stood in My council, Then they would have announced My words to My people, And would have turned them back from their evil way And from the evil of their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:23" @Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:24" @Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD. " Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:25" @I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a dream!'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:26" @How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

nasb@Jeremiah:11:27 @who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:28" @The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:29" @Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:30" @Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:31" @Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who use their tongues and declare, 'The Lord declares.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:32" @Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams," declares the LORD, "and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:33" @Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' then you shall say to them, 'What oracle?' The LORD declares, 'I will abandon you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:34" @Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, 'The oracle of the LORD,' I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:35" @Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ' What has the LORD answered?' or, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:36" @For you will no longer remember the oracle of the LORD, because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:37" @Thus you will say to that prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:38" @For if you say, 'The oracle of the LORD!' surely thus says the LORD, 'Because you said this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" I have also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The oracle of the LORD!'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:39" @Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:40" @I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten."

nasb@Jeremiah:12:1 @After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me- behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD!

nasb@Jeremiah:12:2 @One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:3 @Then the LORD said to me, " What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness."

nasb@Jeremiah:12:4 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:12:5" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:6 @'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:7 @'I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:8 @'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness--indeed, thus says the LORD--so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:9 @'I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:10 @'I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:1 @The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

nasb@Jeremiah:13:2 @which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:3" @From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:4" @And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:5 @saying, ' Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the LORD has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:6 @and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:7" @Yet you have not listened to Me," declares the LORD, "in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:8" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed My words,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:9 @behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:10 @'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:11 @' This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:12 @'Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:13 @'I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:14 @'(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:15 @For thus the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me, "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:16" @They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:17 @Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it-

nasb@Jeremiah:13:18 @Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:19 @Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and all his people;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:20 @and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

nasb@Jeremiah:13:21 @Edom, Moab and the sons of Ammon;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:22 @and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:23 @and Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who cut the corners of their hair;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:24 @and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwell in the desert;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:25 @and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:26 @and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:27" @You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you."'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:28" @And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts- " You shall surely drink!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:29" @For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of hosts.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:30" @Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them, 'The LORD will roar from on high And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:31 @'A clamor has come to the end of the earth, Because the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He is entering into judgment with all flesh; As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:32 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, evil is going forth From nation to nation, And a great storm is being stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:33" @Those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:34" @Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:35" @ Flight will perish from the shepherds, And escape from the masters of the flock.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:36" @Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:37" @And the peaceful folds are made silent Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:38" @He has left His hiding place like the lion; For their land has become a horror Because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword And because of His fierce anger."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:26 @In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:2" @Thus says the LORD, ' Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the LORD'S house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:3 @' Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:4" @And you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, " If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:5 @to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:6 @then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:7 @The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:8 @When Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, " You must die!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:9" @Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD saying, 'This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:10 @When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and sat in the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD'S house.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:11 @Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, "A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:12 @Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying, " The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:13" @Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will change His mind about the misfortune which He has pronounced against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:14" @But as for me, behold, I am in your hands; do with me as is good and right in your sight.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:15" @Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:16 @Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:17 @Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:18" @ Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Thus the LORD of hosts has said, " Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become ruins, And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:19" @Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD changed His mind about the misfortune which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against ourselves."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:20 @Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:21 @When King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard it, and he was afraid and fled and went to Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:22 @Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt- Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:23 @And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:24 @But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:1 @In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying--

nasb@Jeremiah:14:2 @thus says the LORD to me--"Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:3 @and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:4" @Command them to go to their masters, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:5" @ I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:6" @Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:7" @ All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:8" @It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence," declares the LORD, "until I have destroyed it by his hand.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:9" @But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'

nasb@Jeremiah:14:10" @For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:11" @But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land," declares the LORD, "and they will till it and dwell in it."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:12 @I spoke words like all these to Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live!

nasb@Jeremiah:14:13" @Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine and pestilence, as the LORD has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?

nasb@Jeremiah:14:14" @So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy a lie to you;

nasb@Jeremiah:14:15 @for I have not sent them," declares the LORD, "but they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may drive you out and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:16 @Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD- Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon'; for they are prophesying a lie to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:17" @Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

nasb@Jeremiah:14:18" @But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now entreat the LORD of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:19" @For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:20 @which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:21" @Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:22 @'They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:28 @Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:2" @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:3 @'Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:4 @'I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the LORD, 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:5 @Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:6 @and the prophet Jeremiah said, " Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD'S house and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:7" @Yet hear now this word which I am about to speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people!

nasb@Jeremiah:14:8" @The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:9" @The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:10 @Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:11 @Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, " Thus says the LORD, 'Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.'" Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:12 @The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:13" @Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made instead of them yokes of iron."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:14 @'For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:15 @Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:16" @Therefore thus says the LORD, ' Behold, I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to die, because you have counseled rebellion against the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:17 @So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:1 @Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:2 @(This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

nasb@Jeremiah:15:3 @The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:4" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:5 @' Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:6 @'Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:7 @' Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:8" @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:9 @'For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:10" @For thus says the LORD, 'When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:11 @'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:12 @'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:13 @'You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:14 @'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:15" @Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'--

nasb@Jeremiah:15:16 @for thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile--

nasb@Jeremiah:15:17 @thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:18 @'I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:19 @because they have not listened to My words,' declares the LORD, 'which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:20" @You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:21" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, 'Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:22 @'Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:23 @because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:24 @To Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:25" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:26" @The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:27 @now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?

nasb@Jeremiah:15:28" @For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'The exile will be long; build houses and live in them and plant gardens and eat their produce.'"'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:29 @Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:30 @Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:31" @Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:32 @therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am about to do to My people," declares the LORD, "because he has preached rebellion against the LORD."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:30 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:2" @Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ' Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:3 @'For behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.' The LORD says, 'I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:4 @Now these are the words which the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah-

nasb@Jeremiah:15:5" @For thus says the LORD, 'I have heard a sound of terror, Of dread, and there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:6 @'Ask now, and see If a male can give birth. Why do I see every man With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth? And why have all faces turned pale?

nasb@Jeremiah:15:7 @'Alas! for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob's distress, But he will be saved from it.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:8 @'It shall come about on that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:9 @'But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:10 @' Fear not, O Jacob My servant,' declares the LORD, 'And do not be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar And your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, And no one will make him afraid.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:11 @'For I am with you,' declares the LORD, 'to save you; For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely. But I will chasten you justly And will by no means leave you unpunished.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:12" @For thus says the LORD, 'Your wound is incurable And your injury is serious.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:13 @'There is no one to plead your cause; No healing for your sore, No recovery for you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:14 @'All your lovers have forgotten you, They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the punishment of a cruel one, Because your iniquity is great And your sins are numerous.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:15 @'Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because your iniquity is great And your sins are numerous, I have done these things to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:16 @'Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity; And those who plunder you will be for plunder, And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:17 @'For I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying- "It is Zion; no one cares for her."'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:18" @Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwelling places; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin, And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:19 @'From them will proceed thanksgiving And the voice of those who celebrate; And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished; I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:20 @'Their children also will be as formerly, And their congregation shall be established before Me; And I will punish all their oppressors.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:21 @'Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler shall come forth from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:22 @'You shall be My people, And I will be your God.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:23 @Behold, the tempest of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, A sweeping tempest; It will burst on the head of the wicked.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:24 @The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and until He has accomplished The intent of His heart; In the latter days you will understand this.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:1" @At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:2 @Thus says the LORD, "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness-- Israel, when it went to find its rest."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:3 @The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:4" @ Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! Again you will take up your tambourines, And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:5" @Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters will plant And will enjoy them.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:6" @For there will be a day when watchmen On the hills of Ephraim call out, 'Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:16:7 @For thus says the LORD, " Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise and say, 'O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:8" @Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; A great company, they will return here.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:9" @ With weeping they will come, And by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, On a straight path in which they will not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:10 @Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:11 @For the LORD has ransomed Jacob And redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:12" @They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD-- Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; And their life will be like a watered garden, And they will never languish again.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:13" @Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:14" @I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people will be satisfied with My goodness," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:15 @Thus says the LORD, " A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:16 @Thus says the LORD, " Restrain your voice from weeping And your eyes from tears; For your work will be rewarded," declares the LORD, "And they will return from the land of the enemy.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:17" @There is hope for your future," declares the LORD, "And your children will return to their own territory.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:18" @I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the LORD my God.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:19 @'For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:20" @Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:21" @Set up for yourself roadmarks, Place for yourself guideposts; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:22" @How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth-- A woman will encompass a man."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:23 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their fortunes, 'The LORD bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy hill!'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:24" @Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and they who go about with flocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:25" @ For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:26 @At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:27" @Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:28" @As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:29" @In those days they will not say again, ' The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:30" @But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:31" @ Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

nasb@Jeremiah:16:32 @not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:33" @But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, " I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:34" @They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:35 @Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name-

nasb@Jeremiah:16:36" @ If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:37 @Thus says the LORD, " If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:38" @Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the city will be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:39" @The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:40" @And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it will not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:1 @The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2 @Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy, saying, ' Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @and he will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him," declares the LORD. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed"'?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8" @Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said to me, 'Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9" @I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11" @Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may last a long time."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @'For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16" @After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, then I prayed to the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17 @' Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The LORD of hosts is His name;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @'You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @and gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @'They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have made all this calamity come upon them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24 @'Behold, the siege ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25 @'You have said to me, O Lord GOD, "Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses"--although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:27" @Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:28 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:29" @The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:30" @Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:31" @Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:32 @because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger--they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:33" @They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:34" @But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:35" @They built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:36" @Now therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, 'It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:37" @Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:38" @They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:39 @and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:40" @I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:41" @I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:42" @For thus says the LORD, ' Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:43 @' Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, " It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:44 @'Men will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:33 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @' Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4" @For thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are broken down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @'While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness-

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @'Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel and will rebuild them as they were at first.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @'I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me and by which they have transgressed against Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @' It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @Thus says the LORD, 'Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, "It is a waste, without man and without beast," that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, " Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting"; and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,' says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13 @'In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,' says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @'Behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @'In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she will be called- the LORD is our righteousness.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @For thus says the LORD, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20" @Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @'As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24" @Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25" @Thus says the LORD, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:34 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ' Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him- "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @' You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4" @Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you, 'You will not die by the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @'You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them-

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10 @And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'I made a covenant with your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14" @ At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15" @Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16" @Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each man took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @Therefore thus says the LORD, 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @'I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts--

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf--

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @' Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has gone away from you.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @'Behold, I am going to command,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:35 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the doorkeeper.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @Then I set before the men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups; and I said to them, " Drink wine!"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @But they said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but in tents you shall dwell all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8" @We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in; and we do not have vineyard or field or seed.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11" @But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.' So we have dwelt in Jerusalem."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, " Will you not receive instruction by listening to My words?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14" @The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. But I have spoken to you again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15" @Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying- ' Turn now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @'Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands and done according to all that he commanded you;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me always."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:36 @In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Take a scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3" @ Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6" @So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD'S house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7" @ Perhaps their supplication will come before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10 @Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD'S house, to all the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD from the book,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there-- Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13 @Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @When they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one to another and said to Baruch, "We will surely report all these words to the king."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17 @And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @Then Baruch said to them, "He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe's knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24 @Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25 @Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:27 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:28" @ Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:29" @And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have burned this scroll, saying, ' Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:30 @'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:31" @I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them--but they did not listen."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:32 @Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:1 @Now Zedekiah the son of Josiah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:2 @But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:3 @Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, " Please pray to the LORD our God on our behalf."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:4 @Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people, for they had not yet put him in the prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:5 @Meanwhile, Pharaoh's army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they lifted the siege from Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:6 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:7" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ' Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me- "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:8" @The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire."'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:9" @Thus says the LORD, 'Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:10 @'For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:11 @Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:12 @that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:13 @While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are going over to the Chaldeans!"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:14 @But Jeremiah said, " A lie! I am not going over to the Chaldeans"; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:15 @Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:16 @For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:17 @Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, "Is there a word from the LORD?" And Jeremiah said, "There is!" Then he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon!"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:18 @Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, " In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

nasb@Jeremiah:18:19" @ Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land'?

nasb@Jeremiah:18:20" @But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:21 @Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guardhouse and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:38 @Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:2" @Thus says the LORD, 'He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as booty and stay alive.'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:3" @Thus says the LORD, 'This city will certainly be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and he will capture it.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:4 @Then the officials said to the king, "Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:5 @So King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:6 @Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king's son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:7 @But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king's palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

nasb@Jeremiah:18:8 @and Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:9" @My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:10 @Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take thirty men from here under your authority and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cistern before he dies."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:11 @So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king's palace to a place beneath the storeroom and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:12 @Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Now put these worn-out clothes and rags under your armpits under the ropes"; and Jeremiah did so.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:13 @So they pulled Jeremiah up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, and Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:14 @Then King Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the LORD; and the king said to Jeremiah, "I am going to ask you something; do not hide anything from me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:15 @Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, " If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? Besides, if I give you advice, you will not listen to me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:16 @But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in secret saying, "As the LORD lives, who made this life for us, surely I will not put you to death nor will I give you over to the hand of these men who are seeking your life."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:17 @Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'If you will indeed go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will survive.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:18 @'But if you will not go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and you yourself will not escape from their hand.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:19 @Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I dread the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will abuse me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:20 @But Jeremiah said, "They will not give you over. Please obey the LORD in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you and you may live.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:21" @But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the LORD has shown me-

nasb@Jeremiah:18:22 @'Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, "Your close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:23 @'They will also bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:24 @Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no man know about these words and you will not die.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:25" @But if the officials hear that I have talked with you and come to you and say to you, 'Tell us now what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us and we will not put you to death,'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:26 @then you are to say to them, 'I was presenting my petition before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:27 @Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him. So he reported to them in accordance with all these words which the king had commanded; and they ceased speaking with him, since the conversation had not been overheard.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:28 @So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:1 @Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

nasb@Jeremiah:19:2 @in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:3 @Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate- Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:4 @When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:5 @But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:6 @Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:7 @He then blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:8 @The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king's palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:9 @As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:10 @But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:11 @Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:19:12" @Take him and look after him, and do nothing harmful to him, but rather deal with him just as he tells you."

nasb@Jeremiah:19:13 @So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent word, along with Nebushazban the Rab-saris, and Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the leading officers of the king of Babylon;

nasb@Jeremiah:19:14 @they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:15 @Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:19:16" @Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:17" @But I will deliver you on that day," declares the LORD, "and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:18" @For I will certainly rescue you, and you will not fall by the sword; but you will have your own life as booty, because you have trusted in Me," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:20:1 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:2 @Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place;

nasb@Jeremiah:20:3 @and the LORD has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the LORD and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:4" @But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, never mind. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go."

nasb@Jeremiah:20:5 @As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, "Go on back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go." So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ration and a gift and let him go.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:6 @Then Jeremiah went to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:7 @Now all the commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:8 @So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, both they and their men.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:9 @Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, " Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:10" @Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over."

nasb@Jeremiah:20:11 @Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:12 @Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:13 @Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

nasb@Jeremiah:20:14 @and said to him, "Are you well aware that Baalis the king of the sons of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:15 @Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, " Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

nasb@Jeremiah:20:16 @But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, " Do not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael."

nasb@Jeremiah:21:1 @In the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. While they were eating bread together there in Mizpah,

nasb@Jeremiah:21:2 @Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:3 @Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:4 @Now it happened on the next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,

nasb@Jeremiah:21:5 @that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:6 @Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went; and as he met them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!"

nasb@Jeremiah:21:7 @Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:8 @But ten men who were found among them said to Ishmael, "Do not put us to death; for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil and honey hidden in the field." So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their companions.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:9 @Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had made on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:10 @Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:11 @But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:12 @So they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and they found him by the great pool that is in Gibeon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:13 @Now as soon as all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and the commanders of the forces that were with him, they were glad.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:14 @So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:15 @But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:16 @Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:17 @And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, which is beside Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

nasb@Jeremiah:21:18 @because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, since Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:1 @Then all the commanders of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people both small and great approached

nasb@Jeremiah:22:2 @and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our petition come before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:3 @that the LORD your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:4 @Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to the LORD your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which the LORD will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:5 @Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which the LORD your God will send you to us.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:6" @Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:7 @Now at the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:8 @Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:9 @and said to them, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him-

nasb@Jeremiah:22:10 @'If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:11 @' Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,' declares the LORD, 'for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:12 @'I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:13 @'But if you are going to say, "We will not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the LORD your God,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:14 @saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there";

nasb@Jeremiah:22:15 @then in that case listen to the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:16 @then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:17" @So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:22:18 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:19 @The LORD has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go into Egypt!" You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:20 @For you have only deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God; and whatever the LORD our God says, tell us so, and we will do it."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:21 @So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:22 @Therefore you should now clearly understand that you will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence, in the place where you wish to go to reside.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:1 @But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the LORD their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God--that is, all these words--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2 @Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'You are not to enter Egypt to reside there';

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @but Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4 @So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven away, in order to reside in the land of Judah--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:6 @the men, the women, the children, the king's daughters and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:7 @and they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the LORD) and went in as far as Tahpanhes.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:8 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:9" @Take some large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of some of the Jews;

nasb@Jeremiah:23:10 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:11" @He will also come and strike the land of Egypt; those who are meant for death will be given over to death, and those for captivity to captivity, and those for the sword to the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:12" @And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:13" @He will also shatter the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:44 @The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and the land of Pathros, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @because of their wickedness which they committed so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn sacrifices and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4 @'Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @'But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn sacrifices to other gods.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:6 @'Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a ruin and a desolation as it is this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:7 @'Now then thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:8 @provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:9" @Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:10" @But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers."'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:11" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am going to set My face against you for woe, even to cut off all Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:12 @'And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their mind on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:13 @'And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine and with pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:14 @'So there will be no refugees or survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are longing to return and live; for none will return except a few refugees.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:15 @Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:16" @As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you!

nasb@Jeremiah:23:17" @But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:18" @But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:19" @And," said the women, "when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:20 @Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women--even to all the people who were giving him such an answer--saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:21" @As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them and did not all this come into His mind?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:22" @So the LORD was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thus your land has become a ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:23" @Because you have burned sacrifices and have sinned against the LORD and not obeyed the voice of the LORD or walked in His law, His statutes or His testimonies, therefore this calamity has befallen you, as it has this day."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:24 @Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, " Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:25 @thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, as follows- 'As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, "We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her." Go ahead and confirm your vows, and certainly perform your vows!'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:26" @Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, ' never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, " As the Lord GOD lives."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:27 @'Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword and by famine until they are completely gone.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:28 @' Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:29 @'This will be the sign to you,' declares the LORD, 'that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm.'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:30" @Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am going to give over Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt to the hand of his enemies, to the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave over Zedekiah king of Judah to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and was seeking his life.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:45 @This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written down these words in a book at Jeremiah's dictation, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying-

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2" @Thus says the LORD the God of Israel to you, O Baruch-

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @'You said, "Ah, woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest."'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4" @Thus you are to say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @'But you, are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I am going to bring disaster on all flesh,' declares the LORD, 'but I will give your life to you as booty in all the places where you may go.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:24:1 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:2 @To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah-

nasb@Jeremiah:24:3" @ Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:4" @Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:5" @Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are drawing back, And their mighty men are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back; Terror is on every side!" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:6 @Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:7 @Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge about?

nasb@Jeremiah:24:8 @Egypt rises like the Nile, Even like the rivers whose waters surge about; And He has said, "I will rise and cover that land; I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants."

nasb@Jeremiah:24:9 @Go up, you horses, and drive madly, you chariots, That the mighty men may march forward- Ethiopia and Put, that handle the shield, And the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:10 @For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; And the sword will devour and be satiated And drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for the Lord GOD of hosts, In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:11 @Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:12 @The nations have heard of your shame, And the earth is full of your cry of distress; For one warrior has stumbled over another, And both of them have fallen down together.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:13 @This is the message which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt-

nasb@Jeremiah:24:14" @Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol, Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, 'Take your stand and get yourself ready, For the sword has devoured those around you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:15" @Why have your mighty ones become prostrate? They do not stand because the LORD has thrust them down.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:16" @They have repeatedly stumbled; Indeed, they have fallen one against another. Then they said, 'Get up! And let us go back To our own people and our native land Away from the sword of the oppressor.'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:17" @They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:18" @As I live," declares the King Whose name is the LORD of hosts, "Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:19" @Make your baggage ready for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt, For Memphis will become a desolation; It will even be burned down and bereft of inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:20" @Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north--it is coming!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:21" @Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For even they too have turned back and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamity has come upon them, The time of their punishment.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:22" @Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:23" @They have cut down her forest," declares the LORD; "Surely it will no more be found, Even though they are now more numerous than locusts And are without number.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:24" @The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame, Given over to the power of the people of the north."

nasb@Jeremiah:24:25 @The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:26" @I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:27" @But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, Nor be dismayed, O Israel! For, see, I am going to save you from afar, And your descendants from the land of their captivity; And Jacob will return and be undisturbed And secure, with no one making him tremble.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:28" @O Jacob My servant, do not fear," declares the LORD, "For I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations Where I have driven you, Yet I will not make a full end of you; But I will correct you properly And by no means leave you unpunished."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:1 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2 @Thus says the LORD- "Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and all its fullness, The city and those who live in it; And the men will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Because of the noise of the galloping hoofs of his stallions, The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers have not turned back for their children, Because of the limpness of their hands,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4 @On account of the day that is coming To destroy all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon Every ally that is left; For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines, The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @ Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been ruined. O remnant of their valley, How long will you gash yourself?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @Ah, sword of the LORD, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Be at rest and stay still.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @How can it be quiet, When the LORD has given it an orderNULL Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast-- There He has assigned it."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:48 @Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed; Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured; The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @There is praise for Moab no longer; In Heshbon they have devised calamity against her- 'Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!' You too, Madmen, will be silenced; The sword will follow after you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @Moab is broken, Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @For by the ascent of Luhith They will ascend with continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @ Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @A destroyer will come to every city, So that no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined And the plateau will be destroyed, As the LORD has said.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @ Cursed be the one who does the LORD'S work negligently, And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14" @How can you say, 'We are mighty warriors, And men valiant for battle'?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @The disaster of Moab will soon come, And his calamity has swiftly hastened.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17" @Mourn for him, all you who live around him, Even all of you who know his name; Say, 'How has the mighty scepter been broken, A staff of splendor!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @ Come down from your glory And sit on the parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, He has ruined your strongholds.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19" @Stand by the road and keep watch, O inhabitant of Aroer; Ask him who flees and her who escapes And say, 'What has happened?'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20" @Moab has been put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out; Declare by the Arnon That Moab has been destroyed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah and against Mephaath,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22 @against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23 @against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul and Beth-meon,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24 @against Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @The horn of Moab has been cut off and his arm broken," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @ Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27" @Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28" @Leave the cities and dwell among the crags, O inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @ We have heard of the pride of Moab--he is very proud-- Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his self-exaltation.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @I know his fury," declares the LORD, "But it is futile; His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Therefore I will wail for Moab, Even for all Moab will I cry out; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @More than the weeping for Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your tendrils stretched across the sea, They reached to the sea of Jazer; Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest The destroyer has fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33" @So gladness and joy are taken away From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab. And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses; No one will tread them with shouting, The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @ From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @I will make an end of Moab," declares the LORD, "the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36" @Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back--he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40 @For thus says the LORD- "Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @Kerioth has been captured And the strongholds have been seized, So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @Moab will be destroyed from being a people Because he has become arrogant toward the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @ Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs up out of the pit Will be caught in the snare; For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45" @In the shadow of Heshbon The fugitives stand without strength; For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon And a flame from the midst of Sihon, And it has devoured the forehead of Moab And the scalps of the riotous revelers.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46" @ Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; For your sons have been taken away captive And your daughters into captivity.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:47" @Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab In the latter days," declares the LORD. Thus far the judgment on Moab.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:49 @Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says the LORD- "Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad And his people settled in its cities?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; And it will become a desolate heap, And her towns will be set on fire. Then Israel will take possession of his possessors," Says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, And rush back and forth inside the walls; For Malcam will go into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @How boastful you are about the valleys! Your valley is flowing away, O backsliding daughter Who trusts in her treasures, saying, ' Who will come against me?'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @Behold, I am going to bring terror upon you," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "From all directions around you; And each of you will be driven out headlong, With no one to gather the fugitives together.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @But afterward I will restore The fortunes of the sons of Ammon," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7 @Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has good counsel been lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @ If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and he is no more.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @For I have sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14 @I have heard a message from the LORD, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, " Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17" @Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, " no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19" @ Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman- surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21 @The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22 @Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23 @Concerning Damascus. " Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They are disheartened. There is anxiety by the sea, It cannot be calmed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @How the city of praise has not been deserted, The town of My joy!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all the men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27" @I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben-hadad."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the LORD, "Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the men of the east.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @They will take away their tents and their flocks; They will carry off for themselves Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels, And they will call out to one another, ' Terror on every side!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor," declares the LORD; "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease, Which lives securely," declares the LORD. "It has no gates or bars; They dwell alone.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @Their camels will become plunder, And their many cattle for booty, And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair; And I will bring their disaster from every side," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33" @Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever; No one will live there, Nor will a son of man reside in it."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying-

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest of their might.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36 @'I will bring upon Elam the four winds From the four ends of heaven, And will scatter them to all these winds; And there will be no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37 @'So I will shatter Elam before their enemies And before those who seek their lives; And I will bring calamity upon them, Even My fierce anger,' declares the LORD, 'And I will send out the sword after them Until I have consumed them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38 @'Then I will set My throne in Elam And destroy out of it king and princes,' Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39 @'But it will come about in the last days That I will restore the fortunes of Elam,'" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:50 @The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet-

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @ Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, ' Babylon has been captured, Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @In those days and at that time," declares the LORD, "the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the LORD their God they will seek.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains; They have gone along from mountain to hill And have forgotten their resting place.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @All who came upon them have devoured them; And their adversaries have said, ' We are not guilty, Inasmuch as they have sinned against the LORD who is the habitation of righteousness, Even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @Wander away from the midst of Babylon And go forth from the land of the Chaldeans; Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @For behold, I am going to arouse and bring up against Babylon A horde of great nations from the land of the north, And they will draw up their battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who does not return empty-handed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @ Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will have enough," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, O you who pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer And neigh like stallions,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @Because of the indignation of the LORD she will not be inhabited, But she will be completely desolate; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified And will hiss because of all her wounds.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14" @Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, do not be sparing with your arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD- Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @Cut off the sower from Babylon And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest; From before the sword of the oppressor They will each turn back to his own people And they will each flee to his own land.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17" @Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- 'Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19 @'And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @'In those days and at that time,' declares the LORD, 'search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay and utterly destroy them," declares the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22" @The noise of battle is in the land, And great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23" @How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut off and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @I set a snare for you and you were also caught, O Babylon, While you yourself were not aware; You have been found and also seized Because you have engaged in conflict with the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25 @The LORD has opened His armory And has brought forth the weapons of His indignation, For it is a work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26 @Come to her from the farthest border; Open up her barns, Pile her up like heaps And utterly destroy her, Let nothing be left to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27 @Put all her young bulls to the sword; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe be upon them, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, Vengeance for His temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @Summon many against Babylon, All those who bend the bow- Encamp against her on every side, Let there be no escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all that she has done, so do to her; For she has become arrogant against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "For your day has come, The time when I will punish you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set fire to his cities And it will devour all his environs."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The sons of Israel are oppressed, And the sons of Judah as well; And all who took them captive have held them fast, They have refused to let them go.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His name; He will vigorously plead their case So that He may bring rest to the earth, But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @A sword against the Chaldeans," declares the LORD, "And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her officials and her wise men!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36" @A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @A sword against their horses and against their chariots And against all the foreigners who are in the midst of her, And they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @A drought on her waters, and they will be dried up! For it is a land of idols, And they are mad over fearsome idols.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @Therefore the desert creatures will live there along with the jackals; The ostriches also will live in it, And it will never again be inhabited Or dwelt in from generation to generation.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40" @As when God overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah with its neighbors," declares the LORD, "No man will live there, Nor will any son of man reside in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @Behold, a people is coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @They seize their bow and javelin; They are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, Marshalled like a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands hang limp; Distress has gripped him, Agony like a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @ Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand before Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45 @Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans- surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46 @At the shout, "Babylon has been seized!" the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:51 @Thus says the LORD- "Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai The spirit of a destroyer.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her And may devastate her land; For on every side they will be opposed to her In the day of her calamity.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Let not him who bends his bow bend it, Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor; So do not spare her young men; Devote all her army to destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5 @For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6 @Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD'S time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7 @Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, Intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore the nations are going mad.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8 @Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9 @We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, For her judgment has reached to heaven And towers up to the very skies.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10 @The LORD has brought about our vindication; Come and let us recount in Zion The work of the LORD our God!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11 @Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, Place men in ambush! For the LORD has both purposed and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13 @O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14 @The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself- "Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15 @It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16 @When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain And brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17 @All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18 @They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19 @The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @He says, "You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22 @And with you I shatter man and woman, And with you I shatter old man and youth, And with you I shatter young man and virgin,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23 @And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefects.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth," declares the LORD, "And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @They will not take from you even a stone for a corner Nor a stone for foundations, But you will be desolate forever," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27 @Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefects, And every land of their dominion.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29 @So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30 @The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their dwelling places are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31 @One courier runs to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To tell the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end;

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32 @The fords also have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time it is stamped firm; Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; And, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @ Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40" @I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @ I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45" @ Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46" @Now so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land-- For the report will come one year, And after that another report in another year, And violence will be in the land With ruler against ruler--

nasb@Jeremiah:25:47 @Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:48" @Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:49 @Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:50 @You who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:51 @We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For aliens have entered The holy places of the LORD'S house.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:52" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will punish her idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:53" @Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:54 @The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:55 @For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:56 @For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of recompense, He will fully repay.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:57" @I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:58 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will toil for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:59 @The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)

nasb@Jeremiah:25:60 @So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:61 @Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:62 @and say, 'You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:63" @And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:64 @and say, 'Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:1 @Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:2 @He did evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:3 @For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:4 @Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:5 @So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:6 @On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:7 @Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:8 @But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:9 @Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:10 @The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:11 @Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:12 @Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:13 @He burned the house of the LORD, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:14 @So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:15 @Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:16 @But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:17 @Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the LORD and the stands and the bronze sea, which were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:18 @They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:19 @The captain of the guard also took away the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:20 @The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:21 @As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:22 @Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:23 @There were ninety-six exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:24 @Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:25 @He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven of the king's advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:26 @Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:27 @Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:28 @These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile- in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

nasb@Jeremiah:26:29 @in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:26:30 @in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:31 @Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:32 @Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:33 @So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and had his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:34 @For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

nasb@Lamentations:1:1 @How lonely sits the city That was full of people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer!

nasb@Lamentations:1:2 @She weeps bitterly in the night And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.

nasb@Lamentations:1:3 @Judah has gone into exile under affliction And under harsh servitude; She dwells among the nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.

nasb@Lamentations:1:4 @The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter.

nasb@Lamentations:1:5 @Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For the LORD has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her little ones have gone away As captives before the adversary.

nasb@Lamentations:1:6 @All her majesty Has departed from the daughter of Zion; Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture; And they have fled without strength Before the pursuer.

nasb@Lamentations:1:7 @In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin.

nasb@Lamentations:1:8 @Jerusalem sinned greatly, Therefore she has become an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns away.

nasb@Lamentations:1:9 @Her uncleanness was in her skirts; She did not consider her future. Therefore she has fallen astonishingly; She has no comforter. " See, O LORD, my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself!"

nasb@Lamentations:1:10 @The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into Your congregation.

nasb@Lamentations:1:11 @All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD, and look, For I am despised."

nasb@Lamentations:1:12" @Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

nasb@Lamentations:1:13" @From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it prevailed over them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.

nasb@Lamentations:1:14" @The yoke of my transgressions is bound; By His hand they are knit together. They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

nasb@Lamentations:1:15" @The Lord has rejected all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To crush my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.

nasb@Lamentations:1:16" @For these things I weep; My eyes run down with water; Because far from me is a comforter, One who restores my soul. My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed."

nasb@Lamentations:1:17 @Zion stretches out her hands; There is no one to comfort her; The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob That the ones round about him should be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

nasb@Lamentations:1:18" @The LORD is righteous; For I have rebelled against His command; Hear now, all peoples, And behold my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.

nasb@Lamentations:1:19" @I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; My priests and my elders perished in the city While they sought food to restore their strength themselves.

nasb@Lamentations:1:20" @See, O LORD, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death.

nasb@Lamentations:1:21" @They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my calamity; They are glad that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, That they may become like me.

nasb@Lamentations:1:22" @Let all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my groans are many and my heart is faint."

nasb@Lamentations:2:1 @How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.

nasb@Lamentations:2:2 @The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

nasb@Lamentations:2:3 @In fierce anger He has cut off All the strength of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.

nasb@Lamentations:2:4 @He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

nasb@Lamentations:2:5 @The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

nasb@Lamentations:2:6 @And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

nasb@Lamentations:2:7 @The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As in the day of an appointed feast.

nasb@Lamentations:2:8 @The LORD determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from destroying, And He has caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together.

nasb@Lamentations:2:9 @Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more. Also, her prophets find No vision from the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:2:10 @The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground, they are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.

nasb@Lamentations:2:11 @My eyes fail because of tears, My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is poured out on the earth Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city.

nasb@Lamentations:2:12 @They say to their mothers, " Where is grain and wine?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out On their mothers' bosom.

nasb@Lamentations:2:13 @How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?

nasb@Lamentations:2:14 @Your prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

nasb@Lamentations:2:15 @All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, ' The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth'?"

nasb@Lamentations:2:16 @All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it."

nasb@Lamentations:2:17 @The LORD has done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

nasb@Lamentations:2:18 @Their heart cried out to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest.

nasb@Lamentations:2:19" @Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street."

nasb@Lamentations:2:20 @See, O LORD, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

nasb@Lamentations:2:21 @On the ground in the streets Lie young and old; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, not sparing.

nasb@Lamentations:2:22 @You called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the LORD'S anger. Those whom I bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them.

nasb@Lamentations:3:1 @I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

nasb@Lamentations:3:2 @He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

nasb@Lamentations:3:3 @Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

nasb@Lamentations:3:4 @He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

nasb@Lamentations:3:5 @He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

nasb@Lamentations:3:6 @In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

nasb@Lamentations:3:7 @He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.

nasb@Lamentations:3:8 @Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

nasb@Lamentations:3:9 @He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

nasb@Lamentations:3:10 @He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.

nasb@Lamentations:3:11 @He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

nasb@Lamentations:3:12 @He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.

nasb@Lamentations:3:13 @He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

nasb@Lamentations:3:14 @I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

nasb@Lamentations:3:15 @He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

nasb@Lamentations:3:16 @He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.

nasb@Lamentations:3:17 @My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:18 @So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."

nasb@Lamentations:3:19 @Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:20 @Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:21 @This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

nasb@Lamentations:3:22 @The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

nasb@Lamentations:3:23 @They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:24" @The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."

nasb@Lamentations:3:25 @The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.

nasb@Lamentations:3:26 @It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:3:27 @It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

nasb@Lamentations:3:28 @Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.

nasb@Lamentations:3:29 @Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.

nasb@Lamentations:3:30 @Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.

nasb@Lamentations:3:31 @For the Lord will not reject forever,

nasb@Lamentations:3:32 @For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:33 @For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.

nasb@Lamentations:3:34 @To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

nasb@Lamentations:3:35 @To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,

nasb@Lamentations:3:36 @To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.

nasb@Lamentations:3:37 @Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

nasb@Lamentations:3:38 @Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?

nasb@Lamentations:3:39 @Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?

nasb@Lamentations:3:40 @Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:3:41 @We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;

nasb@Lamentations:3:42 @We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.

nasb@Lamentations:3:43 @You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared.

nasb@Lamentations:3:44 @You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.

nasb@Lamentations:3:45 @You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

nasb@Lamentations:3:46 @All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

nasb@Lamentations:3:47 @Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;

nasb@Lamentations:3:48 @My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nasb@Lamentations:3:49 @My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,

nasb@Lamentations:3:50 @Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.

nasb@Lamentations:3:51 @My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

nasb@Lamentations:3:52 @My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;

nasb@Lamentations:3:53 @They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:54 @Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

nasb@Lamentations:3:55 @I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

nasb@Lamentations:3:56 @You have heard my voice, " Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."

nasb@Lamentations:3:57 @You drew near when I called on You; You said, " Do not fear!"

nasb@Lamentations:3:58 @O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.

nasb@Lamentations:3:59 @O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.

nasb@Lamentations:3:60 @You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:61 @You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:62 @The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

nasb@Lamentations:3:63 @Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.

nasb@Lamentations:3:64 @You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

nasb@Lamentations:3:65 @You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.

nasb@Lamentations:3:66 @You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!

nasb@Lamentations:4:1 @How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street.

nasb@Lamentations:4:2 @The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against fine gold, How they are regarded as earthen jars, The work of a potter's hands!

nasb@Lamentations:4:3 @Even jackals offer the breast, They nurse their young; But the daughter of my people has become cruel Like ostriches in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:4:4 @The tongue of the infant cleaves To the roof of its mouth because of thirst; The little ones ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.

nasb@Lamentations:4:5 @Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those reared in purple Embrace ash pits.

nasb@Lamentations:4:6 @For the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment, And no hands were turned toward her.

nasb@Lamentations:4:7 @Her consecrated ones were purer than snow, They were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than corals, Their polishing was like lapis lazuli.

nasb@Lamentations:4:8 @Their appearance is blacker than soot, They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin is shriveled on their bones, It is withered, it has become like wood.

nasb@Lamentations:4:9 @Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.

nasb@Lamentations:4:10 @The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nasb@Lamentations:4:11 @The LORD has accomplished His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion Which has consumed its foundations.

nasb@Lamentations:4:12 @The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Lamentations:4:13 @Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous;

nasb@Lamentations:4:14 @They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.

nasb@Lamentations:4:15" @Depart! Unclean!" they cried of themselves. "Depart, depart, do not touch!" So they fled and wandered; Men among the nations said, "They shall not continue to dwell with us."

nasb@Lamentations:4:16 @The presence of the LORD has scattered them, He will not continue to regard them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

nasb@Lamentations:4:17 @Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.

nasb@Lamentations:4:18 @They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, Our days were finished For our end had come.

nasb@Lamentations:4:19 @Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the sky; They chased us on the mountains, They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:4:20 @The breath of our nostrils, the LORD'S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."

nasb@Lamentations:4:21 @Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Who dwells in the land of Uz; But the cup will come around to you as well, You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

nasb@Lamentations:4:22 @The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no longer. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!

nasb@Lamentations:5:1 @Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!

nasb@Lamentations:5:2 @Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

nasb@Lamentations:5:3 @We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

nasb@Lamentations:5:4 @We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.

nasb@Lamentations:5:5 @Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

nasb@Lamentations:5:6 @We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

nasb@Lamentations:5:7 @Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

nasb@Lamentations:5:8 @Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

nasb@Lamentations:5:9 @We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:5:10 @Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

nasb@Lamentations:5:11 @They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

nasb@Lamentations:5:12 @Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

nasb@Lamentations:5:13 @Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

nasb@Lamentations:5:14 @Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.

nasb@Lamentations:5:15 @The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

nasb@Lamentations:5:16 @The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

nasb@Lamentations:5:17 @Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;

nasb@Lamentations:5:18 @Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it.

nasb@Lamentations:5:19 @You, O LORD, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

nasb@Lamentations:5:20 @Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

nasb@Lamentations:5:21 @Restore us to You, O LORD, that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old,

nasb@Lamentations:5:22 @Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:1 @Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:2 @(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,

nasb@Ezekiel:1:3 @the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)

nasb@Ezekiel:1:4 @As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:5 @Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance- they had human form.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:6 @Each of them had four faces and four wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:7 @Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:8 @Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

nasb@Ezekiel:1:9 @their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:10 @As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:11 @Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:12 @And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:13 @In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:14 @And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:15 @Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:16 @The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:17 @Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:18 @As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:19 @Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:20 @Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:21 @Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:22 @Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:23 @Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:24 @I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:25 @And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:26 @Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:27 @Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:28 @As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:1 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!"

nasb@Ezekiel:2:2 @As He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:3 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:4" @I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:2:5" @As for them, whether they listen or not--for they are a rebellious house--they will know that a prophet has been among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:6" @And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:7" @But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:8" @Now you, son of man, listen to what I am speaking to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you."

nasb@Ezekiel:2:9 @Then I looked, and behold, a hand was extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:10 @When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:1 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2 @So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you." Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @Go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17" @Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:18" @When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:19" @Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:20" @Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:21" @However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:22 @The hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:23 @So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:24 @The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:25" @As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:26" @Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:27" @But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3" @Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6" @When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10" @Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12" @You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @But I said, " Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17 @because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3" @Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @'But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8 @therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9 @'And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @'Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11 @'So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @'One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @'Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @'So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @'When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17 @'Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @and say, 'Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys- "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6" @In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10" @Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them."'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, " Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12" @He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend My wrath on them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13" @Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak--the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14" @So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @'Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4 @'For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @'An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @'Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near--tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8 @'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9 @'My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @'Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11 @'Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @'Indeed, the seller will not regain what he sold as long as they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @'They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @'The sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @'Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17 @'All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:18 @'They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:19 @'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:20 @'They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:21 @'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:22 @'I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:23 @' Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:24 @'Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:25 @'When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:26 @' Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:27 @'The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:4:1 @It came about in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell on me there.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:2 @Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of a man; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of glowing metal.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:3 @He stretched out the form of a hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:4 @And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:5 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north." So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the entrance.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:6 @And He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:7 @Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:8 @He said to me, "Son of man, now dig through the wall." So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:9 @And He said to me, "Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:10 @So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:11 @Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:12 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ' The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:4:13 @And He said to me, "Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:14 @Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:15 @He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:16 @Then He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:17 @He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:18" @Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:1 @Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, "Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:2 @Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:3 @Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:4 @The LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:5 @But to the others He said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:6" @Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary." So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:7 @And He said to them, " Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:8 @As they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out saying, " Alas, Lord GOD! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?"

nasb@Ezekiel:5:9 @Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!'

nasb@Ezekiel:5:10" @But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:11 @Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case reported, saying, "I have done just as You have commanded me."

nasb@Ezekiel:6:1 @Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim something like a sapphire stone, in appearance resembling a throne, appeared above them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:2 @And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, "Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And he entered in my sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:3 @Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:4 @Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the temple was filled with the cloud and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:5 @Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:6 @It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he entered and stood beside a wheel.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:7 @Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:8 @The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand under their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:9 @Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:10 @As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:11 @When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:12 @Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:13 @The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:14 @And each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:15 @Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:16 @Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels would not turn from beside them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:17 @When the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, the wheels would rise with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:18 @Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:19 @When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD'S house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:20 @These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:21 @Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:22 @As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:1 @Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the LORD'S house which faced eastward. And behold, there were twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2 @He said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3 @who say, 'The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @Therefore, prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5 @Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said to me, "Say, 'Thus says the LORD, "So you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the flesh and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8" @You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you," the Lord GOD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:11" @This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @Thus you will know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, " Alas, Lord GOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far from the LORD; this land has been given us as a possession.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16" @Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17" @Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:18" @When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20 @that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21" @But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22 @Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23 @The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:24 @And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:25 @Then I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2" @Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3" @Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand though they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @Bring your baggage out by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will go out at evening in their sight, as those going into exile.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5" @Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7 @I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8 @In the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ' What are you doing?'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem as well as all the house of Israel who are in it."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:11" @Say, 'I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them; they will go into exile, into captivity.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @The prince who is among them will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bring it out. He will cover his face so that he can not see the land with his eyes.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13" @I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14" @I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will draw out a sword after them.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @So they will know that I am the LORD when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16" @But I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:18" @Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @Then say to the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, "They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20" @The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22" @Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The days are long and every vision fails'?

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel." But tell them, " The days draw near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:24" @For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:25" @For I the LORD will speak, and whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:26 @Furthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:27" @Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:28" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,"'" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2" @Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, ' Listen to the word of the LORD!

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5" @You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, 'The LORD declares,' when the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7" @ Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, 'The LORD declares,' but it is not I who have spoken?"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ' Peace!' when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

nasb@Ezekiel:7:11 @so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, 'Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14" @So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and when it falls, you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, 'The wall is gone and its plasterers are gone,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16 @along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17" @Now you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their own inspiration. Prophesy against them

nasb@Ezekiel:7:18 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down lives! Will you hunt down the lives of My people, but preserve the lives of others for yourselves?

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @ For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt lives there as birds and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let them go, even those lives whom you hunt as birds.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21" @I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22" @Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23 @therefore, you women will no longer see false visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:1 @Then some elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3" @Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be brought to give him an answer in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5 @in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols."'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the LORD will be brought to answer him in My own person.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among My people. So you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the LORD, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @They will bear the punishment of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Thus they will be My people, and I shall be their God,"' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13" @Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it and cut off from it both man and beast,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14 @even though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @though these three men were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17" @Or if I should bring a sword on that country and say, 'Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast from it,'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @even though these three men were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19" @Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20 @even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their son or their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem- sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @Yet, behold, survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to come forth to you and you will see their conduct and actions; then you will be comforted for the calamity which I have brought against Jerusalem for everything which I have brought upon it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3" @Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @If it has been put into the fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and its middle part has been charred, is it then useful for anything?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @Behold, while it is intact, it is not made into anything. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be made into anything!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7 @and I set My face against them. Though they have come out of the fire, yet the fire will consume them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set My face against them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8 @'Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem, "Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11" @I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12" @I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13" @Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14" @Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16" @You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17" @You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18" @Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19" @Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD),

nasb@Ezekiel:8:24 @that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:25" @You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:26" @You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:27" @Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:28" @Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:29" @You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:30" @How languishing is your heart," declares the Lord GOD, "while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:31" @When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:32" @You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:33" @Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:34" @Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:35 @Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:36 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:37 @therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:38" @Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:39" @I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:40" @They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:41" @They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:42" @So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:43" @Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:44" @Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:45" @You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:46" @Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:47" @Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:48" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:49" @Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom- she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:50" @Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:51" @Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:52" @Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:53" @Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your own captivity,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:54 @in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:55" @Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:56" @As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:57 @before your wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines--those surrounding you who despise you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:58" @You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations," the LORD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:59 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:60" @Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:61" @Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:62" @Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:63 @so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done," the Lord GOD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3 @saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A great eagle with great wings, long pinions and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters; he set it like a willow.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, that he might water it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @It was planted in good soil beside abundant waters, that it might yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine."'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @Say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers--so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it--wither on the beds where it grew?"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12" @Say now to the rebellious house, 'Do you not know what these things mean?' Say, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13 @'He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14 @that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15 @'But he rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @'As I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @' Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @'Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he pledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @All the choice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out; I will pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a stately cedar. And birds of every kind will nest under it; they will nest in the shade of its branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:24" @All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD; I bring down the high tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will perform it."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @ What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ' The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge'?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6 @and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period--

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7 @if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8 @if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9 @if he walks in My statutes and My ordinances so as to deal faithfully-- he is righteous and will surely live," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @Then he may have a violent son who sheds blood and who does any of these things to a brother

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @(though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines, and defiles his neighbor's wife,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12 @oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13 @he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14" @Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father's sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @he keeps his hand from the poor, does not take interest or increase, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes; he will not die for his father's iniquity, he will surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18" @As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19" @Yet you say, ' Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity?' When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @ All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @ Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked," declares the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:24" @But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:25" @Yet you say, ' The way of the Lord is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:26" @When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:27" @Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:28" @Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:29" @But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:30" @Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. " Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:31" @ Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:32" @For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live."

nasb@Ezekiel:9:1" @As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

nasb@Ezekiel:9:2 @and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:3 @'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:4 @'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:5 @'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:6 @'And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:7 @'He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:8 @'Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:9 @' They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:10 @'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:11 @'And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:12 @'But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:13 @'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:14 @'And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.'" This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:1 @Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, " I will not be inquired of by you."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @I said to them, ' Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16 @because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @I said to their children in the wilderness, ' Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @' I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @' Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by acting treacherously against Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @Then I said to them, 'What is the high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @Therefore, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @What comes into your mind will not come about, when you say- 'We will be like the nations, like the tribes of the lands, serving wood and stone.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34" @I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36" @As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:37" @I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:38 @and I will purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:39" @As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD, " Go, serve everyone his idols; but later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:40" @For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:41" @As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will prove Myself holy among you in the sight of the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:42" @And you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land which I swore to give to your forefathers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:43" @There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that you have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:44" @Then you will know that I am the LORD when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:45 @Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:46" @Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and speak out against the south and prophesy against the forest land of the Negev,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:47 @and say to the forest of the Negev, 'Hear the word of the LORD- thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched and the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:48" @All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:49 @Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not just speaking parables?'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and speak against the sanctuaries and prophesy against the land of Israel;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to the land of Israel, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am against you; and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Thus all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It will not return to its sheath again."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @And when they say to you, 'Why do you groan?' you shall say, 'Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen,' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the LORD.' Say, ' A sword, a sword sharpened And also polished!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Sharpened to make a slaughter, Polished to flash like lightning!' Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @It is given to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @I will also clap My hands together, and I will appease My wrath; I, the LORD, have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @The word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @You shall mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Into his right hand came the divination, 'Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @thus says the Lord GOD, 'Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @' A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say- 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @' Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @'I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32 @'You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @You shall say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of turmoil.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @Behold, then, I smite My hand at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken and will act.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @'As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @'I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @'As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath on you.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @Son of man, say to her, 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @'They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @'Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @'They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @'These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @'You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'You will drink your sister's cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; It contains much.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @'You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @'You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36 @Moreover, the LORD said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:37" @For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:38" @Again, they have done this to Me- they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:39" @For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:40" @Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came--for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:41 @and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:42" @The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:43" @Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, 'Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:44" @But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:45" @But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:46" @For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:47 @'The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:48 @'Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:49 @'Your lewdness will be requited upon you, and you will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols; thus you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @And the word of the LORD came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Put on the pot, put it on and also pour water in it;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @Put in it the pieces, Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Take the choicest of the flock, And also pile wood under the pot. Make it boil vigorously. Also seethe its bones in it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the bloody city, To the pot in which there is rust And whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, Without making a choice.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, That it may not be covered."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, " Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Boil the flesh well And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Then set it empty on its coals So that it may be hot And its bronze may glow And its filthiness may be melted in it, Its rust consumed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, Yet you are not clean, You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again Until I have spent My wrath on you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @The people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @'You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep, but you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart's delight, their sons and their daughters,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @'On that day your mouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to the sons of Ammon, 'Hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because you said, ' Aha!' against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'For thus says the Lord GOD, "Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Moab and Seir say, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @therefore, behold, I am going to deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @ I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the LORD when I lay My vengeance on them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @'They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares the Lord GOD, 'and she will become spoil for the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry and a great army.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will come down to the ground.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I the LORD have spoken," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, "Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Then all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @They will take up a lamentation over you and say to you, ' How you have perished, O inhabited one, From the seas, O renowned city, Which was mighty on the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who imposed her terror On all her inhabitants!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @'Now the coastlands will tremble On the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea Will be terrified at your passing.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @I will bring terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, you will never be found again," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Of oaks from Bashan they have made your oars; With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt So that it became your distinguishing mark; Your awning was blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @ Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your splendor.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @ Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @Those from Beth-togarmah gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @ Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil and balm they paid for your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @ Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Vedan and Javan paid for your wares from Uzal; wrought iron, cassia and sweet cane were among your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @ Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were your customers for lambs, rams and goats; for these they were your customers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of spices, and with all kinds of precious stones and gold.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @Your rowers have brought you Into great waters; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your sailors and your pilots, Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise And all your men of war who are in you, With all your company that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @At the sound of the cry of your pilots The pasture lands will shake.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @All who handle the oar, The sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships; They will stand on the land,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @Also they will make themselves bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you And lament over you- 'Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @'When your wares went out from the seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of earth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @'Now that you are broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, Your merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @'All the inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They are troubled in countenance.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36 @'The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever.'"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28 @The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, ' I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of your slayer, Though you are a man and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'You will die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' declares the Lord GOD!"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @Again the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering- The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I will be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her, And I will manifest My holiness in her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @For I will send pestilence to her And blood to her streets, And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side; Then they will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @They will live in it securely; and they will build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, That has said, 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will put hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @'For thus says the Lord GOD, "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @The word of the LORD came again to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Wail, 'Alas for the day!'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @A sword will come upon Egypt, And anguish will be in Ethiopia; When the slain fall in Egypt, They take away her wealth, And her foundations are torn down.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya and the people of the land that is in league will fall with them by the sword."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Thus says the LORD, "Indeed, those who support Egypt will fall And the pride of her power will come down; From Migdol to Syene They will fall within her by the sword," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @And they will know that I am the LORD, When I set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are broken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @On that day messengers will go forth from Me in ships to frighten secure Ethiopia; and anguish will be on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it comes!"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " I will also make the hordes of Egypt cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @He and his people with him, The most ruthless of the nations, Will be brought in to destroy the land; And they will draw their swords against Egypt And fill the land with the slain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Moreover, I will make the Nile canals dry And sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate And all that is in it, By the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also destroy the idols And make the images cease from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will make Pathros desolate, Set a fire in Zoan And execute judgments on Thebes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will pour out My wrath on Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also cut off the hordes of Thebes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached And Memphis will have distresses daily.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @The young men of On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @In Tehaphnehes the day will be dark When I break there the yoke bars of Egypt. Then the pride of her power will cease in her; A cloud will cover her, And her daughters will go into captivity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, And they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @'I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @'When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes, 'Whom are you like in your greatness?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @'Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And very high, And its top was among the clouds.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @'The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of many waters as it spread them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs, And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @'So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its roots extended to many waters.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'The cedars in God's garden could not match it; The cypresses could not compare with its boughs, And the plane trees could not match its branches. No tree in God's garden could compare with it in its beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in its loftiness,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @therefore I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @On its ruin all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14 @so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatnessNULL Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32 @In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the open field. And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters; And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @When I make the land of Egypt a desolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I smite all those who live in it, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @This is a lamentation and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall chant it," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @ Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @ Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the land of the living and bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; they were put in the midst of the slain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @ Meshech, Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves surround them. All of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @ Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @There also is Edom, its kings and all its princes, who for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @There also are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @These Pharaoh will see, and he will be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, 'If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman's hand.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth and give them warning from Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus you have spoken, saying, "Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?"'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Say to them, ' As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, 'The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @But when I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @ None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Yet your fellow citizens say, 'The way of the Lord is not right,' when it is their own way that is not right.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @Yet you say, ' The way of the Lord is not right.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, " The city has been taken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before the refugees came. And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened and I was no longer speechless.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ' Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @You rely on your sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?"'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Thus you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @But as for you, son of man, your fellow citizens who talk about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, ' Come now and hear what the message is which comes forth from the LORD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33" @So when it comes to pass--as surely it will--then they will know that a prophet has been in their midst."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @My flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to search or seek for them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore, but I will deliver My flock from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @As for you, My flock, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @'Is it too slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @'As for My flock, they must eat what you tread down with your feet and drink what you foul with your feet!'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them, "Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:1" @And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:2 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the enemy has spoken against you, 'Aha!' and, 'The everlasting heights have become our possession,'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:3 @therefore prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:4 @'Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about,

nasb@Ezekiel:11:5 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey."

nasb@Ezekiel:11:6 @'Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:7" @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:8 @'But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:9 @'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:10 @'I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:11 @'I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:12 @'Yes, I will cause men--My people Israel--to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:13" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because they say to you, "You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children,"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:14 @therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:15" @I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:16 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:11:17" @Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:18" @Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:19" @Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:20" @When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD; yet they have come out of His land.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:21" @But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:22" @Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:23" @I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:24" @For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:25" @Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:26" @Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:27" @I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:28" @You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:29" @Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:30" @I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:31" @Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:32" @I am not doing this for your sake," declares the Lord GOD, "let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:33 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:34" @The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:35" @They will say, 'This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:36" @Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken and will do it."

nasb@Ezekiel:11:37 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them- I will increase their men like a flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:38" @Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:1 @The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:2 @He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:3 @He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:4 @Again He said to me, " Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:6 @'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:7 @So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:8 @And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:9 @Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:10 @So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:11 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:12" @Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:13" @Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:14" @I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:15 @The word of the LORD came again to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:16" @And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:17" @Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:18" @When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:19 @say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:20" @The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:21" @Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:22 @and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:23" @They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:24" @My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:25" @They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:26" @I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:27" @My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:28" @And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:38 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:2" @Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

nasb@Ezekiel:12:3 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:4" @I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:5 @Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:6 @Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops--many peoples with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:7" @ Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:8" @ After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:9" @You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:11 @and you will say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:12 @to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:13" @ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?'"'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:14" @Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it?

nasb@Ezekiel:12:15" @ You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:16 @and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:17 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

nasb@Ezekiel:12:18" @It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "that My fury will mount up in My anger.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:19" @In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:20" @ The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:21" @I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains," declares the Lord GOD. " Every man's sword will be against his brother.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:22" @With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:23" @I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:13:1" @And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;

nasb@Ezekiel:13:2 @and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:3" @I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:4" @You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:5" @You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:6" @And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:7" @My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:8" @Behold, it is coming and it shall be done," declares the Lord GOD. "That is the day of which I have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:9" @Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:10" @They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:11" @On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:12" @For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:13" @Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be to their renown on the day that I glorify Myself," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:14" @They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:15" @As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:16" @And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."'

nasb@Ezekiel:13:17" @As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, "Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:18" @You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:19" @So you will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:20" @You will be glutted at My table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:21" @And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:22" @And the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God from that day onward.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:23" @The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:24" @ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:13:25 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:26" @They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:27" @When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of the many nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:28" @Then they will know that I am the LORD their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:29" @I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:1 @In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:2 @In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:3 @So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:4 @The man said to me, " Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see."

nasb@Ezekiel:14:5 @And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:6 @Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold was one rod in width.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:7 @The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:8 @Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:9 @He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:10 @The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:11 @And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:12 @There was a barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:13 @He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:14 @He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:15 @From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:16 @There were shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were palm tree ornaments.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:17 @Then he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:18 @The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:19 @Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:20 @As for the gate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:21 @It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:22 @Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:23 @The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a hundred cubits from gate to gate.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:24 @Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:25 @The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:26 @There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:27 @The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:28 @Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:29 @Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:30 @There were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:31 @Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:32 @He brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:33 @Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:34 @Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:35 @Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,

nasb@Ezekiel:14:36 @with its guardrooms, its side pillars and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:37 @Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:38 @A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:39 @In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:40 @On the outer side, as one went up to the gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:41 @Four tables were on each side next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:42 @For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:43 @The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:44 @From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, one of which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:45 @He said to me, "This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple;

nasb@Ezekiel:14:46 @but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to minister to Him."

nasb@Ezekiel:14:47 @He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:48 @Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:49 @The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:1 @Then he brought me to the nave and measured the side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:2 @The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:3 @Then he went inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:4 @He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave; and he said to me, "This is the most holy place."

nasb@Ezekiel:15:5 @Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:6 @The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:7 @The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:8 @I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:9 @The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

nasb@Ezekiel:15:10 @and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:11 @The doorways of the side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:12 @The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:13 @Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:14 @Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:15 @He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:16 @The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

nasb@Ezekiel:15:17 @over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:18 @It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

nasb@Ezekiel:15:19 @a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:20 @From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:21 @The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:22 @The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:15:23 @The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:24 @Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:25 @Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:26 @There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:1 @Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:2 @Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:3 @Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:4 @Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:5 @Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:6 @For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:7 @As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:8 @For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:9 @Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:10 @In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:11 @The way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their arrangements and openings.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:12 @Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:13 @Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:14" @When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without laying there their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:16:15 @Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:16 @He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:17 @He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:18 @On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:19 @He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:20 @He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:1 @Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing toward the east;

nasb@Ezekiel:17:2 @and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:3 @And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:4 @And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate facing toward the east.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:5 @And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:6 @Then I heard one speaking to me from the house, while a man was standing beside me.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:7 @He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

nasb@Ezekiel:17:8 @by setting their threshold by My threshold and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:9" @Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will dwell among them forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:10" @As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the plan.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:11" @If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statutes and do them.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:12" @This is the law of the house- its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:13" @And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth)- the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one span; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:14" @From the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width one cubit.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:15" @The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:16" @Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:17" @The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall face the east."

nasb@Ezekiel:17:18 @And He said to me, " Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:19 @'You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who draw near to Me to minister to Me,' declares the Lord GOD, 'a young bull for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:20 @'You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:21 @'You shall also take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:22 @'On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:23 @'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:24 @'You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:25 @' For seven days you shall prepare daily a goat for a sin offering; also a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be prepared.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:26 @'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:27 @'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you,' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:1 @Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2 @The LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4 @Then He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5 @The LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @You shall say to the rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7 @when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:8" @And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:10" @But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @And they shall not come near to Me to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14" @Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15" @But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16" @They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner court and in the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18" @Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19" @When they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20" @Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21" @ Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22" @And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23" @Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24" @In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:25" @ They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:26" @After he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:27" @On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:28" @And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel--I am their possession.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:29" @They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:30" @The first of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:31" @The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:45" @And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and the width shall be 20,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2" @Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @From this area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4" @It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5" @An area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities to dwell in.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @You shall give the city possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7" @The prince shall have land on either side of the holy allotment and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:8" @This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:10" @You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @This is the offering that you shall offer- a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14 @and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15 @and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel--for a grain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16" @ All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @It shall be the prince's part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the feasts, on the new moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19" @The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20" @Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21" @In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22" @On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23" @During the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24" @He shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:25" @In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:46 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "The gate of the inner court facing east shall be shut the six working days; but it shall be opened on the sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2" @The prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @The people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4" @The burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the LORD on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5 @and the grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7" @And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:8" @When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go out by the same way.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9" @But when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:10" @When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @At the festivals and the appointed feasts the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14" @Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15" @Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons'; it shall belong to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18" @The prince shall not take from the people's inheritance, thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19 @Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20 @He said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21 @Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22 @In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23 @There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24 @Then he said to me, "These are the boiling places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:19:1 @Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:2 @He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:3 @When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:4 @Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:5 @Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be forded.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:6 @He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me back to the bank of the river.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:7 @Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:8 @Then he said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:9" @It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:10" @And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:11" @But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:12" @ By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

nasb@Ezekiel:19:13 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:14" @You shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other; for I swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:15" @This shall be the boundary of the land- on the north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

nasb@Ezekiel:19:16 @Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:17" @The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:18" @The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:19" @The south side toward the south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:20" @The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:21" @So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:22" @You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:23" @And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:48" @Now these are the names of the tribes- from the northern extremity, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath, running from east to west, Dan, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:2" @Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:3" @Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:4" @Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:5" @Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:6" @Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, Reuben, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:7" @Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:8" @And beside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the allotment which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in width, and in length like one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:9" @The allotment that you shall set apart to the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:10" @The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the priests, toward the north 25,000 cubits in length, toward the west 10,000 in width, toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward the south 25,000 in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in its midst.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:11" @It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:12" @It shall be an allotment to them from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, by the border of the Levites.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:13" @Alongside the border of the priests the Levites shall have 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the width 10,000.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:14" @Moreover, they shall not sell or exchange any of it, or alienate this choice portion of land; for it is holy to the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:15" @The remainder, 5,000 cubits in width and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open spaces; and the city shall be in its midst.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:16" @These shall be its measurements- the north side 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500 cubits, the east side 4,500 cubits, and the west side 4,500 cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:17" @The city shall have open spaces- on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250 cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250 cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:18" @The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment shall be 10,000 cubits toward the east and 10,000 toward the west; and it shall be alongside the holy allotment. And its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:19" @The workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:20" @The whole allotment shall be 25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall set apart the holy allotment, a square, with the property of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:21" @The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy allotment and of the property of the city; in front of the 25,000 cubits of the allotment toward the east border and westward in front of the 25,000 toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy allotment and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:22" @Exclusive of the property of the Levites and the property of the city, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:23" @As for the rest of the tribes- from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:24" @Beside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:25" @Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:26" @Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:27" @Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:28" @And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:29" @This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:30" @These are the exits of the city- on the north side, 4,500 cubits by measurement,

nasb@Ezekiel:19:31 @shall be the gates of the city, named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north- the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:32" @On the east side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates- the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:33" @On the south side, 4,500 cubits by measurement, shall be three gates- the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:34" @On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates- the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:35" @The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, 'The LORD is there.'"

nasb@Daniel:1:1 @In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

nasb@Daniel:1:2 @The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.

nasb@Daniel:1:3 @Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles,

nasb@Daniel:1:4 @youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Daniel:1:5 @The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king's choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king's personal service.

nasb@Daniel:1:6 @Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

nasb@Daniel:1:7 @Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego.

nasb@Daniel:1:8 @But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

nasb@Daniel:1:9 @Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials,

nasb@Daniel:1:10 @and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king."

nasb@Daniel:1:11 @But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,

nasb@Daniel:1:12" @Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

nasb@Daniel:1:13" @Then let our appearance be observed in your presence and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king's choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see."

nasb@Daniel:1:14 @So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

nasb@Daniel:1:15 @At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king's choice food.

nasb@Daniel:1:16 @So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.

nasb@Daniel:1:17 @As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.

nasb@Daniel:1:18 @Then at the end of the days which the king had specified for presenting them, the commander of the officials presented them before Nebuchadnezzar.

nasb@Daniel:1:19 @The king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's personal service.

nasb@Daniel:1:20 @As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.

nasb@Daniel:1:21 @And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:1 @Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.

nasb@Daniel:2:2 @Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:3 @The king said to them, "I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."

nasb@Daniel:2:4 @Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic- " O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:5 @The king replied to the Chaldeans, "The command from me is firm- if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

nasb@Daniel:2:6" @But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:7 @They answered a second time and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:8 @The king replied, "I know for certain that you are bargaining for time, inasmuch as you have seen that the command from me is firm,

nasb@Daniel:2:9 @that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:10 @The Chaldeans answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer or Chaldean.

nasb@Daniel:2:11" @Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it to the king except gods, whose dwelling place is not with mortal flesh."

nasb@Daniel:2:12 @Because of this the king became indignant and very furious and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:13 @So the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they looked for Daniel and his friends to kill them.

nasb@Daniel:2:14 @Then Daniel replied with discretion and discernment to Arioch, the captain of the king's bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

nasb@Daniel:2:15 @he said to Arioch, the king's commander, "For what reason is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter.

nasb@Daniel:2:16 @So Daniel went in and requested of the king that he would give him time, in order that he might declare the interpretation to the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:17 @Then Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter,

nasb@Daniel:2:18 @so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:19 @Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven;

nasb@Daniel:2:20 @Daniel said, "Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him.

nasb@Daniel:2:21" @It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

nasb@Daniel:2:22" @It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.

nasb@Daniel:2:23" @To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, For You have given me wisdom and power; Even now You have made known to me what we requested of You, For You have made known to us the king's matter."

nasb@Daniel:2:24 @Therefore, Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and spoke to him as follows- " Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon! Take me into the king's presence, and I will declare the interpretation to the king."

nasb@Daniel:2:25 @Then Arioch hurriedly brought Daniel into the king's presence and spoke to him as follows- "I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can make the interpretation known to the king!"

nasb@Daniel:2:26 @The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?"

nasb@Daniel:2:27 @Daniel answered before the king and said, "As for the mystery about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, conjurers, magicians nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:28" @However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.

nasb@Daniel:2:29" @As for you, O king, while on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future; and He who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

nasb@Daniel:2:30" @But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than in any other living man, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

nasb@Daniel:2:31" @You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.

nasb@Daniel:2:32" @The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

nasb@Daniel:2:33 @its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

nasb@Daniel:2:34" @You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

nasb@Daniel:2:35" @Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

nasb@Daniel:2:36" @This was the dream; now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:37" @You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory;

nasb@Daniel:2:38 @and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

nasb@Daniel:2:39" @After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

nasb@Daniel:2:40" @Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.

nasb@Daniel:2:41" @In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay.

nasb@Daniel:2:42" @As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle.

nasb@Daniel:2:43" @And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.

nasb@Daniel:2:44" @In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

nasb@Daniel:2:45" @Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."

nasb@Daniel:2:46 @Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel, and gave orders to present to him an offering and fragrant incense.

nasb@Daniel:2:47 @The king answered Daniel and said, "Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery."

nasb@Daniel:2:48 @Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:49 @And Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon, while Daniel was at the king's court.

nasb@Daniel:3:1 @Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:2 @Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:3 @Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:4 @Then the herald loudly proclaimed- "To you the command is given, O peoples, nations and men of every language,

nasb@Daniel:3:5 @that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:6" @But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire."

nasb@Daniel:3:7 @Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and men of every language fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:8 @For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews.

nasb@Daniel:3:9 @They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king- " O king, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:3:10" @You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, is to fall down and worship the golden image.

nasb@Daniel:3:11" @But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:12" @There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

nasb@Daniel:3:13 @Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king.

nasb@Daniel:3:14 @Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?

nasb@Daniel:3:15" @Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?"

nasb@Daniel:3:16 @Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

nasb@Daniel:3:17" @If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

nasb@Daniel:3:18" @ But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."

nasb@Daniel:3:19 @Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

nasb@Daniel:3:20 @He commanded certain valiant warriors who were in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in order to cast them into the furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:21 @Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:22 @For this reason, because the king's command was urgent and the furnace had been made extremely hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego.

nasb@Daniel:3:23 @But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.

nasb@Daniel:3:24 @Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, "Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?" They replied to the king, "Certainly, O king."

nasb@Daniel:3:25 @He said, "Look! I see four men loosed and walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!"

nasb@Daniel:3:26 @Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:27 @The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king's high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

nasb@Daniel:3:28 @Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who put their trust in Him, violating the king's command, and yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God.

nasb@Daniel:3:29" @Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way."

nasb@Daniel:3:30 @Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:4 @Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth- "May your peace abound!

nasb@Daniel:3:2" @It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.

nasb@Daniel:3:3" @How great are His signs And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And His dominion is from generation to generation.

nasb@Daniel:3:4" @I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.

nasb@Daniel:3:5" @I saw a dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

nasb@Daniel:3:6" @So I gave orders to bring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

nasb@Daniel:3:7" @Then the magicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.

nasb@Daniel:3:8" @But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream to him, saying,

nasb@Daniel:3:9 @'O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, since I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery baffles you, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.

nasb@Daniel:3:10 @'Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed- I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth and its height was great.

nasb@Daniel:3:11 @'The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:12 @'Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches, And all living creatures fed themselves from it.

nasb@Daniel:3:13 @'I was looking in the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven.

nasb@Daniel:3:14 @'He shouted out and spoke as follows- " Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the beasts flee from under it And the birds from its branches.

nasb@Daniel:3:15" @Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:16" @Let his mind be changed from that of a man And let a beast's mind be given to him, And let seven periods of time pass over him.

nasb@Daniel:3:17" @This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And bestows it on whom He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of men."

nasb@Daniel:3:18 @'This is the dream which I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, tell me its interpretation, inasmuch as none of the wise men of my kingdom is able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for a spirit of the holy gods is in you.'

nasb@Daniel:3:19" @Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, 'Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.' Belteshazzar replied, ' My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you and its interpretation to your adversaries!

nasb@Daniel:3:20 @'The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth

nasb@Daniel:3:21 @and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged--

nasb@Daniel:3:22 @it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your dominion to the end of the earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:23 @'In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, " Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the beasts of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,"

nasb@Daniel:3:24 @this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king-

nasb@Daniel:3:25 @that you be driven away from mankind and your dwelling place be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.

nasb@Daniel:3:26 @'And in that it was commanded to leave the stump with the roots of the tree, your kingdom will be assured to you after you recognize that it is Heaven that rules.

nasb@Daniel:3:27 @'Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you- break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.'

nasb@Daniel:3:28" @All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.

nasb@Daniel:3:29" @ Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:30" @The king reflected and said, 'Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'

nasb@Daniel:3:31" @While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, 'King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared- sovereignty has been removed from you,

nasb@Daniel:3:32 @and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.'

nasb@Daniel:3:33" @Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

nasb@Daniel:3:34" @But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

nasb@Daniel:3:35" @ All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ' What have You done?'

nasb@Daniel:3:36" @At that time my reason returned to me. And my majesty and splendor were restored to me for the glory of my kingdom, and my counselors and my nobles began seeking me out; so I was reestablished in my sovereignty, and surpassing greatness was added to me.

nasb@Daniel:3:37" @Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride."

nasb@Daniel:4:1 @Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

nasb@Daniel:4:2 @When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

nasb@Daniel:4:3 @Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

nasb@Daniel:4:4 @They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

nasb@Daniel:4:5 @Suddenly the fingers of a man's hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

nasb@Daniel:4:6 @Then the king's face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

nasb@Daniel:4:7 @The king called aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple and have a necklace of gold around his neck, and have authority as third ruler in the kingdom."

nasb@Daniel:4:8 @Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

nasb@Daniel:4:9 @Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, his face grew even paler, and his nobles were perplexed.

nasb@Daniel:4:10 @The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, " O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.

nasb@Daniel:4:11" @There is a man in your kingdom in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, illumination, insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king, appointed him chief of the magicians, conjurers, Chaldeans and diviners.

nasb@Daniel:4:12" @This was because an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of enigmas and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:4:13 @Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the exiles from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

nasb@Daniel:4:14" @Now I have heard about you that a spirit of the gods is in you, and that illumination, insight and extraordinary wisdom have been found in you.

nasb@Daniel:4:15" @Just now the wise men and the conjurers were brought in before me that they might read this inscription and make its interpretation known to me, but they could not declare the interpretation of the message.

nasb@Daniel:4:16" @But I personally have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Now if you are able to read the inscription and make its interpretation known to me, you will be clothed with purple and wear a necklace of gold around your neck, and you will have authority as the third ruler in the kingdom."

nasb@Daniel:4:17 @Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Keep your gifts for yourself or give your rewards to someone else; however, I will read the inscription to the king and make the interpretation known to him.

nasb@Daniel:4:18" @O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

nasb@Daniel:4:19" @Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every language feared and trembled before him; whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.

nasb@Daniel:4:20" @But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

nasb@Daniel:4:21" @He was also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

nasb@Daniel:4:22" @Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

nasb@Daniel:4:23 @but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

nasb@Daniel:4:24" @Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.

nasb@Daniel:4:25" @Now this is the inscription that was written out- 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.'

nasb@Daniel:4:26" @This is the interpretation of the message- 'MENE'--God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

nasb@Daniel:4:27" @ 'TEKEL'--you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

nasb@Daniel:4:28" @ 'PERES'--your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

nasb@Daniel:4:29 @Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:4:30 @That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

nasb@Daniel:4:31 @So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.

nasb@Daniel:5:1 @It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,

nasb@Daniel:5:2 @and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.

nasb@Daniel:5:3 @Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:5:4 @Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

nasb@Daniel:5:5 @Then these men said, "We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God."

nasb@Daniel:5:6 @Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows- "King Darius, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:5:7" @All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions' den.

nasb@Daniel:5:8" @Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."

nasb@Daniel:5:9 @Therefore King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction.

nasb@Daniel:5:10 @Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

nasb@Daniel:5:11 @Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

nasb@Daniel:5:12 @Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king's injunction, "Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions' den?" The king replied, "The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."

nasb@Daniel:5:13 @Then they answered and spoke before the king, " Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day."

nasb@Daniel:5:14 @Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.

nasb@Daniel:5:15 @Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed."

nasb@Daniel:5:16 @Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions' den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, " Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you."

nasb@Daniel:5:17 @A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel.

nasb@Daniel:5:18 @Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

nasb@Daniel:5:19 @Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions' den.

nasb@Daniel:5:20 @When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?"

nasb@Daniel:5:21 @Then Daniel spoke to the king, " O king, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:5:22" @My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime."

nasb@Daniel:5:23 @Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

nasb@Daniel:5:24 @The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions' den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

nasb@Daniel:5:25 @Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land- " May your peace abound!

nasb@Daniel:5:26" @I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God and enduring forever, And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be forever.

nasb@Daniel:5:27" @He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

nasb@Daniel:5:28 @So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

nasb@Daniel:6:1 @In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.

nasb@Daniel:6:2 @Daniel said, "I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

nasb@Daniel:6:3" @And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.

nasb@Daniel:6:4" @The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it.

nasb@Daniel:6:5" @And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, 'Arise, devour much meat!'

nasb@Daniel:6:6" @After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

nasb@Daniel:6:7" @After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

nasb@Daniel:6:8" @While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

nasb@Daniel:6:9" @I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.

nasb@Daniel:6:10" @A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were attending Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court sat, And the books were opened.

nasb@Daniel:6:11" @Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.

nasb@Daniel:6:12" @As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time.

nasb@Daniel:6:13" @I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him.

nasb@Daniel:6:14" @And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

nasb@Daniel:6:15" @As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

nasb@Daniel:6:16" @I approached one of those who were standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things-

nasb@Daniel:6:17 @'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

nasb@Daniel:6:18 @'But the saints of the Highest One will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.'

nasb@Daniel:6:19" @Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet,

nasb@Daniel:6:20 @and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates.

nasb@Daniel:6:21" @I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them

nasb@Daniel:6:22 @until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:6:23" @Thus he said- 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.

nasb@Daniel:6:24 @'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.

nasb@Daniel:6:25 @'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

nasb@Daniel:6:26 @'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.

nasb@Daniel:6:27 @'Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.'

nasb@Daniel:6:28" @At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself."

nasb@Daniel:7:1 @In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one which appeared to me previously.

nasb@Daniel:7:2 @I looked in the vision, and while I was looking I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the Ulai Canal.

nasb@Daniel:7:3 @Then I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a ram which had two horns was standing in front of the canal. Now the two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, with the longer one coming up last.

nasb@Daniel:7:4 @I saw the ram butting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before him nor was there anyone to rescue from his power, but he did as he pleased and magnified himself.

nasb@Daniel:7:5 @While I was observing, behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

nasb@Daniel:7:6 @He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

nasb@Daniel:7:7 @I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his power.

nasb@Daniel:7:8 @Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

nasb@Daniel:7:9 @Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.

nasb@Daniel:7:10 @It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down.

nasb@Daniel:7:11 @It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

nasb@Daniel:7:12 @And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper.

nasb@Daniel:7:13 @Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, " How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?"

nasb@Daniel:7:14 @He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored."

nasb@Daniel:7:15 @When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one who looked like a man.

nasb@Daniel:7:16 @And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, and he called out and said, " Gabriel, give this man an understanding of the vision."

nasb@Daniel:7:17 @So he came near to where I was standing, and when he came I was frightened and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Son of man, understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end."

nasb@Daniel:7:18 @Now while he was talking with me, I sank into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand upright.

nasb@Daniel:7:19 @He said, "Behold, I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

nasb@Daniel:7:20" @The ram which you saw with the two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia.

nasb@Daniel:7:21" @The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

nasb@Daniel:7:22" @The broken horn and the four horns that arose in its place represent four kingdoms which will arise from his nation, although not with his power.

nasb@Daniel:7:23" @In the latter period of their rule, When the transgressors have run their course, A king will arise, Insolent and skilled in intrigue.

nasb@Daniel:7:24" @His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, And he will destroy to an extraordinary degree And prosper and perform his will; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.

nasb@Daniel:7:25" @And through his shrewdness He will cause deceit to succeed by his influence; And he will magnify himself in his heart, And he will destroy many while they are at ease. He will even oppose the Prince of princes, But he will be broken without human agency.

nasb@Daniel:7:26" @The vision of the evenings and mornings Which has been told is true; But keep the vision secret, For it pertains to many days in the future."

nasb@Daniel:7:27 @Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king's business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

nasb@Daniel:8:1 @In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--

nasb@Daniel:8:2 @in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

nasb@Daniel:8:3 @So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

nasb@Daniel:8:4 @I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

nasb@Daniel:8:5 @we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

nasb@Daniel:8:6" @Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

nasb@Daniel:8:7" @ Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

nasb@Daniel:8:8" @Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

nasb@Daniel:8:9" @To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

nasb@Daniel:8:10 @nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

nasb@Daniel:8:11" @Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

nasb@Daniel:8:12" @Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

nasb@Daniel:8:13" @As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.

nasb@Daniel:8:14" @Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

nasb@Daniel:8:15" @And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked.

nasb@Daniel:8:16" @O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

nasb@Daniel:8:17" @So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

nasb@Daniel:8:18" @O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

nasb@Daniel:8:19" @O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

nasb@Daniel:8:20 @Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

nasb@Daniel:8:21 @while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

nasb@Daniel:8:22 @He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.

nasb@Daniel:8:23" @At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

nasb@Daniel:8:24" @Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

nasb@Daniel:8:25" @So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

nasb@Daniel:8:26" @Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

nasb@Daniel:8:27" @And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."

nasb@Daniel:9:1 @In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the message was true and one of great conflict, but he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision.

nasb@Daniel:9:2 @In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

nasb@Daniel:9:3 @I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

nasb@Daniel:9:4 @On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great river, that is, the Tigris,

nasb@Daniel:9:5 @I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, whose waist was girded with a belt of pure gold of Uphaz.

nasb@Daniel:9:6 @His body also was like beryl, his face had the appearance of lightning, his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a tumult.

nasb@Daniel:9:7 @Now I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, while the men who were with me did not see the vision; nevertheless, a great dread fell on them, and they ran away to hide themselves.

nasb@Daniel:9:8 @So I was left alone and saw this great vision; yet no strength was left in me, for my natural color turned to a deathly pallor, and I retained no strength.

nasb@Daniel:9:9 @But I heard the sound of his words; and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

nasb@Daniel:9:10 @Then behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

nasb@Daniel:9:11 @He said to me, "O Daniel, man of high esteem, understand the words that I am about to tell you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.

nasb@Daniel:9:12 @Then he said to me, " Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

nasb@Daniel:9:14" @Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet future."

nasb@Daniel:9:15 @When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.

nasb@Daniel:9:16 @And behold, one who resembled a human being was touching my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, "O my lord, as a result of the vision anguish has come upon me, and I have retained no strength.

nasb@Daniel:9:17" @For how can such a servant of my lord talk with such as my lord? As for me, there remains just now no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me."

nasb@Daniel:9:18 @Then this one with human appearance touched me again and strengthened me.

nasb@Daniel:9:19 @He said, "O man of high esteem, do not be afraid. Peace be with you; take courage and be courageous!" Now as soon as he spoke to me, I received strength and said, "May my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

nasb@Daniel:9:20 @Then he said, "Do you understand why I came to you? But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece is about to come.

nasb@Daniel:9:21" @However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @In the first year of Darius the Mede, I arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him.

nasb@Daniel:9:2" @And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece.

nasb@Daniel:9:3" @And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.

nasb@Daniel:9:4" @But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.

nasb@Daniel:9:5" @Then the king of the South will grow strong, along with one of his princes who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed.

nasb@Daniel:9:6" @After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times.

nasb@Daniel:9:7" @But one of the descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display great strength.

nasb@Daniel:9:8" @Also their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.

nasb@Daniel:9:9" @Then the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

nasb@Daniel:9:10" @His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, that he may again wage war up to his very fortress.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @The king of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be given into the hand of the former.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be lifted up, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and after an interval of some years he will press on with a great army and much equipment.

nasb@Daniel:9:14" @Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they will fall down.

nasb@Daniel:9:15" @Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

nasb@Daniel:9:16" @But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

nasb@Daniel:9:17" @He will set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom, bringing with him a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side.

nasb@Daniel:9:18" @Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will repay him for his scorn.

nasb@Daniel:9:19" @So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more.

nasb@Daniel:9:20" @Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.

nasb@Daniel:9:21" @In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

nasb@Daniel:9:22" @The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant.

nasb@Daniel:9:23" @After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.

nasb@Daniel:9:24" @In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his ancestors; he will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.

nasb@Daniel:9:25" @He will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, for schemes will be devised against him.

nasb@Daniel:9:26" @Those who eat his choice food will destroy him, and his army will overflow, but many will fall down slain.

nasb@Daniel:9:27" @As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointed time.

nasb@Daniel:9:28" @Then he will return to his land with much plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.

nasb@Daniel:9:29" @At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.

nasb@Daniel:9:30" @For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will return and become enraged at the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

nasb@Daniel:9:31" @Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

nasb@Daniel:9:32" @By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will display strength and take action.

nasb@Daniel:9:33" @ Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.

nasb@Daniel:9:34" @Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

nasb@Daniel:9:35" @Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.

nasb@Daniel:9:36" @Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is decreed will be done.

nasb@Daniel:9:37" @He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

nasb@Daniel:9:38" @But instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, costly stones and treasures.

nasb@Daniel:9:39" @He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.

nasb@Daniel:9:40" @At the end time the king of the South will collide with him, and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overflow them and pass through.

nasb@Daniel:9:41" @He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand- Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Daniel:9:42" @Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

nasb@Daniel:9:43" @But he will gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his heels.

nasb@Daniel:9:44" @But rumors from the East and from the North will disturb him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and annihilate many.

nasb@Daniel:9:45" @He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.

nasb@Daniel:9:2" @ Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

nasb@Daniel:9:3" @Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

nasb@Daniel:9:4" @But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase."

nasb@Daniel:9:5 @Then I, Daniel, looked and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank of the river.

nasb@Daniel:9:6 @And one said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, " How long will it be until the end of these wonders?"

nasb@Daniel:9:7 @I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed.

nasb@Daniel:9:8 @As for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?"

nasb@Daniel:9:9 @He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.

nasb@Daniel:9:10" @ Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."

nasb@Hosea:1:1 @The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

nasb@Hosea:1:2 @When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, " Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD."

nasb@Hosea:1:3 @So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

nasb@Hosea:1:4 @And the LORD said to him, "Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

nasb@Hosea:1:5" @On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."

nasb@Hosea:1:6 @Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

nasb@Hosea:1:7" @But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and deliver them by the LORD their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen."

nasb@Hosea:1:8 @When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

nasb@Hosea:1:9 @And the LORD said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God."

nasb@Hosea:1:10 @Yet the number of the sons of Israel Will be like the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered; And in the place Where it is said to them, "You are not My people," It will be said to them, "You are the sons of the living God."

nasb@Hosea:2:1 @And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, And they will appoint for themselves one leader, And they will go up from the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel.

nasb@Hosea:2:2 @Say to your brothers, " Ammi," and to your sisters, " Ruhamah."

nasb@Hosea:2:2" @Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,

nasb@Hosea:2:3 @Or I will strip her naked And expose her as on the day when she was born. I will also make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with thirst.

nasb@Hosea:2:4" @Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are children of harlotry.

nasb@Hosea:2:5" @For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ' I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

nasb@Hosea:2:6" @Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

nasb@Hosea:2:7" @She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ' I will go back to my first husband, For it was better for me then than now!'

nasb@Hosea:2:8" @For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they used for Baal.

nasb@Hosea:2:9" @Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.

nasb@Hosea:2:10" @And then I will uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.

nasb@Hosea:2:11" @I will also put an end to all her gaiety, Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies.

nasb@Hosea:2:12" @I will destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, 'These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.' And I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field will devour them.

nasb@Hosea:2:13" @I will punish her for the days of the Baals When she used to offer sacrifices to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:2:14" @Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Bring her into the wilderness And speak kindly to her.

nasb@Hosea:2:15" @Then I will give her her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

nasb@Hosea:2:16" @It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali.

nasb@Hosea:2:17" @For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned by their names no more.

nasb@Hosea:2:18" @In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky And the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, And will make them lie down in safety.

nasb@Hosea:2:19" @I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion,

nasb@Hosea:2:20 @And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:2:21" @It will come about in that day that I will respond," declares the LORD. "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,

nasb@Hosea:2:22 @And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to Jezreel.

nasb@Hosea:2:23" @I will sow her for Myself in the land. I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion, And I will say to those who were not My people, 'You are My people!' And they will say, 'You are my God!'"

nasb@Hosea:3:1 @Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."

nasb@Hosea:3:2 @So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

nasb@Hosea:3:3 @Then I said to her, "You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you."

nasb@Hosea:3:4 @For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.

nasb@Hosea:3:5 @Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

nasb@Hosea:4:1 @Listen to the word of the LORD, O sons of Israel, For the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no faithfulness or kindness Or knowledge of God in the land.

nasb@Hosea:4:2 @There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

nasb@Hosea:4:3 @Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear.

nasb@Hosea:4:4 @Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

nasb@Hosea:4:5 @So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother.

nasb@Hosea:4:6 @My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

nasb@Hosea:4:7 @The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.

nasb@Hosea:4:8 @They feed on the sin of My people And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

nasb@Hosea:4:9 @And it will be, like people, like priest; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds.

nasb@Hosea:4:10 @They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the harlot, but not increase, Because they have stopped giving heed to the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:4:11 @Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

nasb@Hosea:4:12 @My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

nasb@Hosea:4:13 @They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under oak, poplar and terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot And your brides commit adultery.

nasb@Hosea:4:14 @I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot Or your brides when they commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined.

nasb@Hosea:4:15 @Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Do not let Judah become guilty; Also do not go to Gilgal, Or go up to Beth-aven And take the oath- "As the LORD lives!"

nasb@Hosea:4:16 @Since Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn heifer, Can the LORD now pasture them Like a lamb in a large field?

nasb@Hosea:4:17 @Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone.

nasb@Hosea:4:18 @Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

nasb@Hosea:4:19 @The wind wraps them in its wings, And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

nasb@Hosea:5:1 @Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a snare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor.

nasb@Hosea:5:2 @The revolters have gone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.

nasb@Hosea:5:3 @I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself.

nasb@Hosea:5:4 @Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them, And they do not know the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:5:5 @Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also has stumbled with them.

nasb@Hosea:5:6 @They will go with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them.

nasb@Hosea:5:7 @They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their land.

nasb@Hosea:5:8 @Blow the horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven- " Behind you, Benjamin!"

nasb@Hosea:5:9 @Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

nasb@Hosea:5:10 @The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary; On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

nasb@Hosea:5:11 @Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, Because he was determined to follow man's command.

nasb@Hosea:5:12 @Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

nasb@Hosea:5:13 @When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb. But he is unable to heal you, Or to cure you of your wound.

nasb@Hosea:5:14 @For I will be like a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

nasb@Hosea:5:15 @I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

nasb@Hosea:5:6" @ Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

nasb@Hosea:5:2" @He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.

nasb@Hosea:5:3" @So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain watering the earth."

nasb@Hosea:5:4 @What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud And like the dew which goes away early.

nasb@Hosea:5:5 @Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

nasb@Hosea:5:6 @For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

nasb@Hosea:5:7 @But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

nasb@Hosea:5:8 @Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.

nasb@Hosea:5:9 @And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.

nasb@Hosea:5:10 @In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

nasb@Hosea:5:11 @Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of My people.

nasb@Hosea:6:1 @When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid outside,

nasb@Hosea:6:2 @And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.

nasb@Hosea:6:3 @With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.

nasb@Hosea:6:4 @They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

nasb@Hosea:6:5 @On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers,

nasb@Hosea:6:6 @For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

nasb@Hosea:6:7 @All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their rulers; All their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me.

nasb@Hosea:6:8 @Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.

nasb@Hosea:6:9 @Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.

nasb@Hosea:6:10 @Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they have not returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this.

nasb@Hosea:6:11 @So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense; They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

nasb@Hosea:6:12 @When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.

nasb@Hosea:6:13 @Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

nasb@Hosea:6:14 @And they do not cry to Me from their heart When they wail on their beds; For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn away from Me.

nasb@Hosea:6:15 @Although I trained and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me.

nasb@Hosea:6:16 @They turn, but not upward, They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes will fall by the sword Because of the insolence of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Hosea:7:1 @Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.

nasb@Hosea:7:2 @They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!"

nasb@Hosea:7:3 @Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

nasb@Hosea:7:4 @They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.

nasb@Hosea:7:5 @He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of innocence?

nasb@Hosea:7:6 @For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

nasb@Hosea:7:7 @For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

nasb@Hosea:7:8 @Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.

nasb@Hosea:7:9 @For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.

nasb@Hosea:7:10 @Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.

nasb@Hosea:7:11 @Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.

nasb@Hosea:7:12 @Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.

nasb@Hosea:7:13 @As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt.

nasb@Hosea:7:14 @For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

nasb@Hosea:8:1 @Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on every threshing floor.

nasb@Hosea:8:2 @Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.

nasb@Hosea:8:3 @They will not remain in the LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

nasb@Hosea:8:4 @They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:8:5 @What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the LORD?

nasb@Hosea:8:6 @For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.

nasb@Hosea:8:7 @The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great.

nasb@Hosea:8:8 @Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

nasb@Hosea:8:9 @They have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.

nasb@Hosea:8:10 @I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

nasb@Hosea:8:11 @As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

nasb@Hosea:8:12 @Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

nasb@Hosea:8:13 @Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

nasb@Hosea:8:14 @Give them, O LORD--what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

nasb@Hosea:8:15 @All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels.

nasb@Hosea:8:16 @Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb.

nasb@Hosea:8:17 @My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

nasb@Hosea:9:1 @Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he made; The richer his land, The better he made the sacred pillars.

nasb@Hosea:9:2 @Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars.

nasb@Hosea:9:3 @Surely now they will say, "We have no king, For we do not revere the LORD. As for the king, what can he do for us?"

nasb@Hosea:9:4 @They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

nasb@Hosea:9:5 @The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory, since it has departed from it.

nasb@Hosea:9:6 @The thing itself will be carried to Assyria As tribute to King Jareb; Ephraim will be seized with shame And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel.

nasb@Hosea:9:7 @Samaria will be cut off with her king Like a stick on the surface of the water.

nasb@Hosea:9:8 @Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars; Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" And to the hills, "Fall on us!"

nasb@Hosea:9:9 @From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; There they stand! Will not the battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in Gibeah?

nasb@Hosea:9:10 @When it is My desire, I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.

nasb@Hosea:9:11 @Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke; I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

nasb@Hosea:9:12 @Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.

nasb@Hosea:9:13 @You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,

nasb@Hosea:9:14 @Therefore a tumult will arise among your people, And all your fortresses will be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle, When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

nasb@Hosea:9:15 @Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

nasb@Hosea:10:1 @When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.

nasb@Hosea:10:2 @The more they called them, The more they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols.

nasb@Hosea:10:3 @Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

nasb@Hosea:10:4 @I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.

nasb@Hosea:10:5 @They will not return to the land of Egypt; But Assyria--he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me.

nasb@Hosea:10:6 @The sword will whirl against their cities, And will demolish their gate bars And consume them because of their counsels.

nasb@Hosea:10:7 @So My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him.

nasb@Hosea:10:8 @How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled.

nasb@Hosea:10:9 @I will not execute My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, And I will not come in wrath.

nasb@Hosea:10:10 @They will walk after the LORD, He will roar like a lion; Indeed He will roar And His sons will come trembling from the west.

nasb@Hosea:10:11 @They will come trembling like birds from Egypt And like doves from the land of Assyria; And I will settle them in their houses, declares the LORD.

nasb@Hosea:10:12 @Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

nasb@Hosea:11:1 @Ephraim feeds on wind, And pursues the east wind continually; He multiplies lies and violence. Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried to Egypt.

nasb@Hosea:11:2 @The LORD also has a dispute with Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways; He will repay him according to his deeds.

nasb@Hosea:11:3 @In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his maturity he contended with God.

nasb@Hosea:11:4 @Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel And there He spoke with us,

nasb@Hosea:11:5 @Even the LORD, the God of hosts, The LORD is His name.

nasb@Hosea:11:6 @Therefore, return to your God, Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.

nasb@Hosea:11:7 @A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress.

nasb@Hosea:11:8 @And Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all my labors they will find in me No iniquity, which would be sin."

nasb@Hosea:11:9 @But I have been the LORD your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, As in the days of the appointed festival.

nasb@Hosea:11:10 @I have also spoken to the prophets, And I gave numerous visions, And through the prophets I gave parables.

nasb@Hosea:11:11 @Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps Beside the furrows of the field.

nasb@Hosea:11:12 @Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.

nasb@Hosea:11:13 @But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept.

nasb@Hosea:11:14 @Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him And bring back his reproach to him.

nasb@Hosea:12:1 @When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.

nasb@Hosea:12:2 @And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!"

nasb@Hosea:12:3 @Therefore they will be like the morning cloud And like dew which soon disappears, Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.

nasb@Hosea:12:4 @Yet I have been the LORD your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know any god except Me, For there is no savior besides Me.

nasb@Hosea:12:5 @I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

nasb@Hosea:12:6 @As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, And being satisfied, their heart became proud; Therefore they forgot Me.

nasb@Hosea:12:7 @So I will be like a lion to them; Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.

nasb@Hosea:12:8 @I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs, And I will tear open their chests; There I will also devour them like a lioness, As a wild beast would tear them.

nasb@Hosea:12:9 @It is your destruction, O Israel, That you are against Me, against your help.

nasb@Hosea:12:10 @Where now is your king That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you requested, "Give me a king and princes"?

nasb@Hosea:12:11 @I gave you a king in My anger And took him away in My wrath.

nasb@Hosea:12:12 @The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.

nasb@Hosea:12:13 @The pains of childbirth come upon him; He is not a wise son, For it is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.

nasb@Hosea:12:14 @Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

nasb@Hosea:12:15 @Though he flourishes among the reeds, An east wind will come, The wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness; And his fountain will become dry And his spring will be dried up; It will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

nasb@Hosea:12:16 @Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.

nasb@Hosea:13:1 @Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

nasb@Hosea:13:2 @Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to Him, " Take away all iniquity And receive us graciously, That we may present the fruit of our lips.

nasb@Hosea:13:3" @Assyria will not save us, We will not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, ' Our god,' To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds mercy."

nasb@Hosea:13:4 @I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from them.

nasb@Hosea:13:5 @I will be like the dew to Israel; He will blossom like the lily, And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

nasb@Hosea:13:6 @His shoots will sprout, And his beauty will be like the olive tree And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

nasb@Hosea:13:7 @Those who live in his shadow Will again raise grain, And they will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

nasb@Hosea:13:8 @O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; From Me comes your fruit.

nasb@Hosea:13:9 @Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, And the righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will stumble in them.

nasb@Joel:1:1 @The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel-

nasb@Joel:1:2 @Hear this, O elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days Or in your fathers' days?

nasb@Joel:1:3 @Tell your sons about it, And let your sons tell their sons, And their sons the next generation.

nasb@Joel:1:4 @What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.

nasb@Joel:1:5 @Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.

nasb@Joel:1:6 @For a nation has invaded my land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.

nasb@Joel:1:7 @It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

nasb@Joel:1:8 @Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

nasb@Joel:1:9 @The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.

nasb@Joel:1:10 @The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

nasb@Joel:1:11 @Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

nasb@Joel:1:12 @The vine dries up And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

nasb@Joel:1:13 @Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

nasb@Joel:1:14 @Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD.

nasb@Joel:1:15 @Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

nasb@Joel:1:16 @Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

nasb@Joel:1:17 @The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.

nasb@Joel:1:18 @How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

nasb@Joel:1:19 @To You, O LORD, I cry; For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

nasb@Joel:1:20 @Even the beasts of the field pant for You; For the water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

nasb@Joel:2:1 @Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the LORD is coming; Surely it is near,

nasb@Joel:2:2 @A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a great and mighty people; There has never been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.

nasb@Joel:2:3 @A fire consumes before them And behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them But a desolate wilderness behind them, And nothing at all escapes them.

nasb@Joel:2:4 @Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like war horses, so they run.

nasb@Joel:2:5 @With a noise as of chariots They leap on the tops of the mountains, Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, Like a mighty people arranged for battle.

nasb@Joel:2:6 @Before them the people are in anguish; All faces turn pale.

nasb@Joel:2:7 @They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like soldiers; And they each march in line, Nor do they deviate from their paths.

nasb@Joel:2:8 @They do not crowd each other, They march everyone in his path; When they burst through the defenses, They do not break ranks.

nasb@Joel:2:9 @They rush on the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter through the windows like a thief.

nasb@Joel:2:10 @Before them the earth quakes, The heavens tremble, The sun and the moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.

nasb@Joel:2:11 @The LORD utters His voice before His army; Surely His camp is very great, For strong is he who carries out His word. The day of the LORD is indeed great and very awesome, And who can endure it?

nasb@Joel:2:12" @Yet even now," declares the LORD, " Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning;

nasb@Joel:2:13 @And rend your heart and not your garments." Now return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness And relenting of evil.

nasb@Joel:2:14 @Who knows whether He will not turn and relent And leave a blessing behind Him, Even a grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?

nasb@Joel:2:15 @Blow a trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly,

nasb@Joel:2:16 @Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out of his room And the bride out of her bridal chamber.

nasb@Joel:2:17 @Let the priests, the LORD'S ministers, Weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, " Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not make Your inheritance a reproach, A byword among the nations. Why should they among the peoples say, ' Where is their God?'"

nasb@Joel:2:18 @Then the LORD will be zealous for His land And will have pity on His people.

nasb@Joel:2:19 @The LORD will answer and say to His people, "Behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied in full with them; And I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

nasb@Joel:2:20" @But I will remove the northern army far from you, And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land, And its vanguard into the eastern sea, And its rear guard into the western sea. And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up, For it has done great things."

nasb@Joel:2:21 @Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, For the LORD has done great things.

nasb@Joel:2:22 @Do not fear, beasts of the field, For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green, For the tree has borne its fruit, The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full.

nasb@Joel:2:23 @So rejoice, O sons of Zion, And be glad in the LORD your God; For He has given you the early rain for your vindication. And He has poured down for you the rain, The early and latter rain as before.

nasb@Joel:2:24 @The threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.

nasb@Joel:2:25" @Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

nasb@Joel:2:26" @You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; Then My people will never be put to shame.

nasb@Joel:2:27" @Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am the LORD your God, And there is no other; And My people will never be put to shame.

nasb@Joel:2:28" @ It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions.

nasb@Joel:2:29" @Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

nasb@Joel:2:30" @I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke.

nasb@Joel:2:31" @The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

nasb@Joel:2:32" @And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the LORD has said, Even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

nasb@Joel:3:1" @For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

nasb@Joel:3:2 @I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land.

nasb@Joel:3:3" @They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

nasb@Joel:3:4" @Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

nasb@Joel:3:5" @Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

nasb@Joel:3:6 @and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,

nasb@Joel:3:7 @behold, I am going to arouse them from the place where you have sold them, and return your recompense on your head.

nasb@Joel:3:8" @Also I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation," for the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Joel:3:9 @Proclaim this among the nations- Prepare a war; rouse the mighty men! Let all the soldiers draw near, let them come up!

nasb@Joel:3:10 @Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a mighty man."

nasb@Joel:3:11 @Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves there. Bring down, O LORD, Your mighty ones.

nasb@Joel:3:12 @Let the nations be aroused And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.

nasb@Joel:3:13 @Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

nasb@Joel:3:14 @Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

nasb@Joel:3:15 @The sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness.

nasb@Joel:3:16 @The LORD roars from Zion And utters His voice from Jerusalem, And the heavens and the earth tremble. But the LORD is a refuge for His people And a stronghold to the sons of Israel.

nasb@Joel:3:17 @Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will pass through it no more.

nasb@Joel:3:18 @And in that day The mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a spring will go out from the house of the LORD To water the valley of Shittim.

nasb@Joel:3:19 @Egypt will become a waste, And Edom will become a desolate wilderness, Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

nasb@Joel:3:20 @But Judah will be inhabited forever And Jerusalem for all generations.

nasb@Joel:3:21 @And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, For the LORD dwells in Zion.

nasb@Amos:1:1 @The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

nasb@Amos:1:2 @He said, "The LORD roars from Zion And from Jerusalem He utters His voice; And the shepherds' pasture grounds mourn, And the summit of Carmel dries up."

nasb@Amos:1:3 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they threshed Gilead with implements of sharp iron.

nasb@Amos:1:4" @So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael And it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

nasb@Amos:1:5" @I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden; So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir," Says the LORD.

nasb@Amos:1:6 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they deported an entire population To deliver it up to Edom.

nasb@Amos:1:7" @So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza And it will consume her citadels.

nasb@Amos:1:8" @I will also cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon; I will even unleash My power upon Ekron, And the remnant of the Philistines will perish," Says the Lord GOD.

nasb@Amos:1:9 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they delivered up an entire population to Edom And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

nasb@Amos:1:10" @So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre And it will consume her citadels."

nasb@Amos:1:11 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, While he stifled his compassion; His anger also tore continually, And he maintained his fury forever.

nasb@Amos:1:12" @So I will send fire upon Teman And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."

nasb@Amos:1:13 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead In order to enlarge their borders.

nasb@Amos:1:14" @So I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah And it will consume her citadels Amid war cries on the day of battle, And a storm on the day of tempest.

nasb@Amos:2:1" @Their king will go into exile, He and his princes together," says the LORD.

nasb@Amos:2:2 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

nasb@Amos:2:2" @So I will send fire upon Moab And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; And Moab will die amid tumult, With war cries and the sound of a trumpet.

nasb@Amos:2:3" @I will also cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him," says the LORD.

nasb@Amos:2:4 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked.

nasb@Amos:2:5" @So I will send fire upon Judah And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

nasb@Amos:2:6 @Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals.

nasb@Amos:2:7" @These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless Also turn aside the way of the humble; And a man and his father resort to the same girl In order to profane My holy name.

nasb@Amos:2:8" @On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

nasb@Amos:2:9" @Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Though his height was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

nasb@Amos:2:10" @It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And I led you in the wilderness forty years That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

nasb@Amos:2:11" @Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets And some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is this not so, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:2:12" @But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, 'You shall not prophesy!'

nasb@Amos:2:13" @Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

nasb@Amos:2:14" @ Flight will perish from the swift, And the stalwart will not strengthen his power, Nor the mighty man save his life.

nasb@Amos:2:15" @He who grasps the bow will not stand his ground, The swift of foot will not escape, Nor will he who rides the horse save his life.

nasb@Amos:2:16" @Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked in that day," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:2:3 @Hear this word which the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the entire family which He brought up from the land of Egypt-

nasb@Amos:2:2" @ You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."

nasb@Amos:2:3 @Do two men walk together unless they have made an appointment?

nasb@Amos:2:4 @Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl from his den unless he has captured something?

nasb@Amos:2:5 @Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?

nasb@Amos:2:6 @If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it?

nasb@Amos:2:7 @Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets.

nasb@Amos:2:8 @A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

nasb@Amos:2:9 @Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great tumults within her and the oppressions in her midst.

nasb@Amos:2:10" @But they do not know how to do what is right," declares the LORD, "these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels."

nasb@Amos:2:11 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "An enemy, even one surrounding the land, Will pull down your strength from you And your citadels will be looted."

nasb@Amos:2:12 @Thus says the LORD, "Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion's mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear, So will the sons of Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away-- With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

nasb@Amos:2:13" @Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

nasb@Amos:2:14" @For on the day that I punish Israel's transgressions, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar will be cut off And they will fall to the ground.

nasb@Amos:2:15" @I will also smite the winter house together with the summer house; The houses of ivory will also perish And the great houses will come to an end," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:1 @Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands, "Bring now, that we may drink!"

nasb@Amos:3:2 @The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness, "Behold, the days are coming upon you When they will take you away with meat hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks.

nasb@Amos:3:3" @You will go out through breaches in the walls, Each one straight before her, And you will be cast to Harmon," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:4" @Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days.

nasb@Amos:3:5" @Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened, And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known. For so you love to do, you sons of Israel," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Amos:3:6" @But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:7" @Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you While there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on another city I would not send rain; One part would be rained on, While the part not rained on would dry up.

nasb@Amos:3:8" @So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water, But would not be satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:9" @I smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:10" @I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses, And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:11" @I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:3:12" @Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel."

nasb@Amos:3:13 @For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name.

nasb@Amos:4:1 @Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel-

nasb@Amos:4:2 @She has fallen, she will not rise again-- The virgin Israel. She lies neglected on her land; There is none to raise her up.

nasb@Amos:4:3 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "The city which goes forth a thousand strong Will have a hundred left, And the one which goes forth a hundred strong Will have ten left to the house of Israel."

nasb@Amos:4:4 @For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel, " Seek Me that you may live.

nasb@Amos:4:5" @But do not resort to Bethel And do not come to Gilgal, Nor cross over to Beersheba; For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity And Bethel will come to trouble.

nasb@Amos:4:6" @ Seek the LORD that you may live, Or He will break forth like a fire, O house of Joseph, And it will consume with none to quench it for Bethel,

nasb@Amos:4:7 @For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth."

nasb@Amos:4:8 @He who made the Pleiades and Orion And changes deep darkness into morning, Who also darkens day into night, Who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the surface of the earth, The LORD is His name.

nasb@Amos:4:9 @It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong, So that destruction comes upon the fortress.

nasb@Amos:4:10 @They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

nasb@Amos:4:11 @Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor And exact a tribute of grain from them, Though you have built houses of well-hewn stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

nasb@Amos:4:12 @For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, You who distress the righteous and accept bribes And turn aside the poor in the gate.

nasb@Amos:4:13 @Therefore at such a time the prudent person keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

nasb@Amos:4:14 @Seek good and not evil, that you may live; And thus may the LORD God of hosts be with you, Just as you have said!

nasb@Amos:4:15 @Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the gate! Perhaps the LORD God of hosts May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

nasb@Amos:4:16 @Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, "There is wailing in all the plazas, And in all the streets they say, 'Alas! Alas!' They also call the farmer to mourning And professional mourners to lamentation.

nasb@Amos:4:17" @And in all the vineyards there is wailing, Because I will pass through the midst of you," says the LORD.

nasb@Amos:4:18 @Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD, For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light;

nasb@Amos:4:19 @As when a man flees from a lion And a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites him.

nasb@Amos:4:20 @Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?

nasb@Amos:4:21" @I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.

nasb@Amos:4:22" @Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.

nasb@Amos:4:23" @Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

nasb@Amos:4:24" @But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

nasb@Amos:4:25" @ Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

nasb@Amos:4:26" @ You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

nasb@Amos:4:27" @Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

nasb@Amos:5:1 @Woe to those who are at ease in Zion And to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria, The distinguished men of the foremost of nations, To whom the house of Israel comes.

nasb@Amos:5:2 @Go over to Calneh and look, And go from there to Hamath the great, Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, Or is their territory greater than yours?

nasb@Amos:5:3 @Do you put off the day of calamity, And would you bring near the seat of violence?

nasb@Amos:5:4 @Those who recline on beds of ivory And sprawl on their couches, And eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall,

nasb@Amos:5:5 @Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have composed songs for themselves,

nasb@Amos:5:6 @Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

nasb@Amos:5:7 @Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles, And the sprawlers' banqueting will pass away.

nasb@Amos:5:8 @The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, the LORD God of hosts has declared- "I loathe the arrogance of Jacob, And detest his citadels; Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains."

nasb@Amos:5:9 @And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.

nasb@Amos:5:10 @Then one's uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer, " Keep quiet. For the name of the LORD is not to be mentioned."

nasb@Amos:5:11 @For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

nasb@Amos:5:12 @Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

nasb@Amos:5:13 @You who rejoice in Lodebar, And say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"

nasb@Amos:5:14" @For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," declares the LORD God of hosts, "And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath To the brook of the Arabah."

nasb@Amos:6:1 @Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king's mowing.

nasb@Amos:6:2 @And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, " Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, For he is small?"

nasb@Amos:6:3 @The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.

nasb@Amos:6:4 @Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.

nasb@Amos:6:5 @Then I said, " Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"

nasb@Amos:6:6 @The LORD changed His mind about this. "This too shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

nasb@Amos:6:7 @Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

nasb@Amos:6:8 @The LORD said to me, " What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.

nasb@Amos:6:9" @The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

nasb@Amos:6:10 @Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

nasb@Amos:6:11" @For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"

nasb@Amos:6:12 @Then Amaziah said to Amos, " Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah and there eat bread and there do your prophesying!

nasb@Amos:6:13" @But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence."

nasb@Amos:6:14 @Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

nasb@Amos:6:15" @But the LORD took me from following the flock and the LORD said to me, 'Go prophesy to My people Israel.'

nasb@Amos:6:16" @Now hear the word of the LORD- you are saying, 'You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.'

nasb@Amos:6:17" @Therefore, thus says the LORD, 'Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"

nasb@Amos:7:1 @Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit.

nasb@Amos:7:2 @He said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.

nasb@Amos:7:3" @The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence."

nasb@Amos:7:4 @Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

nasb@Amos:7:5 @saying, "When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,

nasb@Amos:7:6 @So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

nasb@Amos:7:7 @The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.

nasb@Amos:7:8" @Because of this will not the land quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of Egypt.

nasb@Amos:7:9" @It will come about in that day," declares the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in broad daylight.

nasb@Amos:7:10" @Then I will turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

nasb@Amos:7:11" @Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD.

nasb@Amos:7:12" @People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.

nasb@Amos:7:13" @In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.

nasb@Amos:7:14" @As for those who swear by the guilt of Samaria, Who say, 'As your god lives, O Dan,' And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives,' They will fall and not rise again."

nasb@Amos:7:9 @I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said, "Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, And break them on the heads of them all! Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword; They will not have a fugitive who will flee, Or a refugee who will escape.

nasb@Amos:7:2" @Though they dig into Sheol, From there will My hand take them; And though they ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down.

nasb@Amos:7:3" @Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from there; And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

nasb@Amos:7:4" @And though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword that it slay them, And I will set My eyes against them for evil and not for good."

nasb@Amos:7:5 @The Lord GOD of hosts, The One who touches the land so that it melts, And all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

nasb@Amos:7:6 @The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name.

nasb@Amos:7:7" @Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

nasb@Amos:7:8" @Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Amos:7:9" @For behold, I am commanding, And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will fall to the ground.

nasb@Amos:7:10" @All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, Those who say, ' The calamity will not overtake or confront us.'

nasb@Amos:7:11" @In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the days of old;

nasb@Amos:7:12 @That they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the nations who are called by My name," Declares the LORD who does this.

nasb@Amos:7:13" @Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved.

nasb@Amos:7:14" @Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit.

nasb@Amos:7:15" @I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God.

nasb@Obadiah:0:1 @The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom-- We have heard a report from the LORD, And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying, " Arise and let us go against her for battle"--

nasb@Obadiah:0:2" @Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised.

nasb@Obadiah:0:3" @The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, You who live in the clefts of the rock, In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in your heart, ' Who will bring me down to earth?'

nasb@Obadiah:0:4" @Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.

nasb@Obadiah:0:5" @If thieves came to you, If robbers by night-- O how you will be ruined!-- Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some gleanings?

nasb@Obadiah:0:6" @O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out!

nasb@Obadiah:0:7" @All the men allied with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no understanding in him.)

nasb@Obadiah:0:8" @Will I not on that day," declares the LORD, " Destroy wise men from Edom And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

nasb@Obadiah:0:9" @Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

nasb@Obadiah:0:10" @Because of violence to your brother Jacob, You will be covered with shame, And you will be cut off forever.

nasb@Obadiah:0:11" @On the day that you stood aloof, On the day that strangers carried off his wealth, And foreigners entered his gate And cast lots for Jerusalem-- You too were as one of them.

nasb@Obadiah:0:12" @ Do not gloat over your brother's day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah In the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast In the day of their distress.

nasb@Obadiah:0:13" @Do not enter the gate of My people In the day of their disaster. Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity In the day of their disaster. And do not loot their wealth In the day of their disaster.

nasb@Obadiah:0:14" @Do not stand at the fork of the road To cut down their fugitives; And do not imprison their survivors In the day of their distress.

nasb@Obadiah:0:15" @For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.

nasb@Obadiah:0:16" @Because just as you drank on My holy mountain, All the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow And become as if they had never existed.

nasb@Obadiah:0:17" @But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape, And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

nasb@Obadiah:0:18" @Then the house of Jacob will be a fire And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau will be as stubble. And they will set them on fire and consume them, So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau," For the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Obadiah:0:19 @Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain; Also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, And Benjamin will possess Gilead.

nasb@Obadiah:0:20 @And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel, Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Will possess the cities of the Negev.

nasb@Obadiah:0:21 @The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will be the LORD'S.

nasb@Jonah:0:1 @The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying,

nasb@Jonah:0:2" @Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me."

nasb@Jonah:0:3 @But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

nasb@Jonah:0:4 @The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

nasb@Jonah:0:5 @Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep.

nasb@Jonah:0:6 @So the captain approached him and said, "How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish."

nasb@Jonah:0:7 @Each man said to his mate, "Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us." So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

nasb@Jonah:0:8 @Then they said to him, " Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamity struck us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"

nasb@Jonah:0:9 @He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land."

nasb@Jonah:0:10 @Then the men became extremely frightened and they said to him, "How could you do this?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

nasb@Jonah:0:11 @So they said to him, "What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us?"--for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

nasb@Jonah:0:12 @He said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you."

nasb@Jonah:0:13 @However, the men rowed desperately to return to land but they could not, for the sea was becoming even stormier against them.

nasb@Jonah:0:14 @Then they called on the LORD and said, "We earnestly pray, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man's life and do not put innocent blood on us; for You, O LORD, have done as You have pleased."

nasb@Jonah:0:15 @So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

nasb@Jonah:0:16 @Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

nasb@Jonah:0:17 @And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

nasb@Jonah:1:1 @Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish,

nasb@Jonah:1:2 @and he said, "I called out of my distress to the LORD, And He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.

nasb@Jonah:1:3" @For You had cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current engulfed me. All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

nasb@Jonah:1:4" @So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'

nasb@Jonah:1:5" @ Water encompassed me to the point of death. The great deep engulfed me, Weeds were wrapped around my head.

nasb@Jonah:1:6" @I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

nasb@Jonah:1:7" @While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple.

nasb@Jonah:1:8" @Those who regard vain idols Forsake their faithfulness,

nasb@Jonah:1:9 @But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the LORD."

nasb@Jonah:1:10 @Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.

nasb@Jonah:1:3 @Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

nasb@Jonah:1:2" @Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."

nasb@Jonah:1:3 @So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk.

nasb@Jonah:1:4 @Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown."

nasb@Jonah:1:5 @Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

nasb@Jonah:1:6 @When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

nasb@Jonah:1:7 @He issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles- Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water.

nasb@Jonah:1:8" @But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.

nasb@Jonah:1:9" @ Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish."

nasb@Jonah:1:10 @When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

nasb@Jonah:2:1 @But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.

nasb@Jonah:2:2 @He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

nasb@Jonah:2:3" @Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life."

nasb@Jonah:2:4 @The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"

nasb@Jonah:2:5 @Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

nasb@Jonah:2:6 @So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.

nasb@Jonah:2:7 @But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.

nasb@Jonah:2:8 @When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, " Death is better to me than life."

nasb@Jonah:2:9 @Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."

nasb@Jonah:2:10 @Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

nasb@Jonah:2:11" @Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animalsNULL"

nasb@Micah:1:1 @The word of the LORD which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

nasb@Micah:1:2 @Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains, And let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.

nasb@Micah:1:3 @For behold, the LORD is coming forth from His place. He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

nasb@Micah:1:4 @The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.

nasb@Micah:1:5 @All this is for the rebellion of Jacob And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

nasb@Micah:1:6 @For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country, Planting places for a vineyard. I will pour her stones down into the valley And will lay bare her foundations.

nasb@Micah:1:7 @All of her idols will be smashed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire And all of her images I will make desolate, For she collected them from a harlot's earnings, And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.

nasb@Micah:1:8 @Because of this I must lament and wail, I must go barefoot and naked; I must make a lament like the jackals And a mourning like the ostriches.

nasb@Micah:1:9 @For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

nasb@Micah:1:10 @Tell it not in Gath, Weep not at all. At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.

nasb@Micah:1:11 @Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness. The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape. The lamentation of Beth-ezel- "He will take from you its support."

nasb@Micah:1:12 @For the inhabitant of Maroth Becomes weak waiting for good, Because a calamity has come down from the LORD To the gate of Jerusalem.

nasb@Micah:1:13 @Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitant of Lachish-- She was the beginning of sin To the daughter of Zion-- Because in you were found The rebellious acts of Israel.

nasb@Micah:1:14 @Therefore you will give parting gifts On behalf of Moresheth-gath; The houses of Achzib will become a deception To the kings of Israel.

nasb@Micah:1:15 @Moreover, I will bring on you The one who takes possession, O inhabitant of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will enter Adullam.

nasb@Micah:1:16 @Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of the children of your delight; Extend your baldness like the eagle, For they will go from you into exile.

nasb@Micah:2:1 @Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands.

nasb@Micah:2:2 @They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.

nasb@Micah:2:3 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time.

nasb@Micah:2:4" @On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, 'We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields.'

nasb@Micah:2:5" @Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

nasb@Micah:2:6 @' Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back.

nasb@Micah:2:7" @Is it being said, O house of Jacob- 'Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings?' Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly?

nasb@Micah:2:8" @Recently My people have arisen as an enemy-- You strip the robe off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by, From those returned from war.

nasb@Micah:2:9" @The women of My people you evict, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.

nasb@Micah:2:10" @Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.

nasb@Micah:2:11" @If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to this people.

nasb@Micah:2:12" @I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men.

nasb@Micah:2:13" @The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head."

nasb@Micah:2:3 @And I said, " Hear now, heads of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

nasb@Micah:2:2" @You who hate good and love evil, Who tear off their skin from them And their flesh from their bones,

nasb@Micah:2:3 @Who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Break their bones And chop them up as for the pot And as meat in a kettle."

nasb@Micah:2:4 @Then they will cry out to the LORD, But He will not answer them. Instead, He will hide His face from them at that time Because they have practiced evil deeds.

nasb@Micah:2:5 @Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; When they have something to bite with their teeth, They cry, "Peace," But against him who puts nothing in their mouths They declare holy war.

nasb@Micah:2:6 @Therefore it will be night for you--without vision, And darkness for you--without divination. The sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will become dark over them.

nasb@Micah:2:7 @The seers will be ashamed And the diviners will be embarrassed. Indeed, they will all cover their mouths Because there is no answer from God.

nasb@Micah:2:8 @On the other hand I am filled with power-- With the Spirit of the LORD-- And with justice and courage To make known to Jacob his rebellious act, Even to Israel his sin.

nasb@Micah:2:9 @Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And twist everything that is straight,

nasb@Micah:2:10 @Who build Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

nasb@Micah:2:11 @Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests instruct for a price And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD saying, " Is not the LORD in our midst? Calamity will not come upon us."

nasb@Micah:2:12 @Therefore, on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

nasb@Micah:3:1 @And it will come about in the last days That the mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it.

nasb@Micah:3:2 @Many nations will come and say, " Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD And to the house of the God of Jacob, That He may teach us about His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the law, Even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

nasb@Micah:3:3 @And He will judge between many peoples And render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they train for war.

nasb@Micah:3:4 @Each of them will sit under his vine And under his fig tree, With no one to make them afraid, For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

nasb@Micah:3:5 @Though all the peoples walk Each in the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

nasb@Micah:3:6" @In that day," declares the LORD, "I will assemble the lame And gather the outcasts, Even those whom I have afflicted.

nasb@Micah:3:7" @I will make the lame a remnant And the outcasts a strong nation, And the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on and forever.

nasb@Micah:3:8" @As for you, tower of the flock, Hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come-- Even the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

nasb@Micah:3:9" @Now, why do you cry out loudly? Is there no king among you, Or has your counselor perished, That agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth?

nasb@Micah:3:10" @ Writhe and labor to give birth, Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Dwell in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.

nasb@Micah:3:11" @And now many nations have been assembled against you Who say, 'Let her be polluted, And let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

nasb@Micah:3:12" @But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, And they do not understand His purpose; For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

nasb@Micah:3:13" @Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, For your horn I will make iron And your hoofs I will make bronze, That you may pulverize many peoples, That you may devote to the LORD their unjust gain And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

nasb@Micah:3:5" @Now muster yourselves in troops, daughter of troops; They have laid siege against us; With a rod they will smite the judge of Israel on the cheek.

nasb@Micah:3:2" @But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity."

nasb@Micah:3:3 @Therefore He will give them up until the time When she who is in labor has borne a child. Then the remainder of His brethren Will return to the sons of Israel.

nasb@Micah:3:4 @And He will arise and shepherd His flock In the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God. And they will remain, Because at that time He will be great To the ends of the earth.

nasb@Micah:3:5 @This One will be our peace. When the Assyrian invades our land, When he tramples on our citadels, Then we will raise against him Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

nasb@Micah:3:6 @They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, The land of Nimrod at its entrances; And He will deliver us from the Assyrian When he attacks our land And when he tramples our territory.

nasb@Micah:3:7 @Then the remnant of Jacob Will be among many peoples Like dew from the LORD, Like showers on vegetation Which do not wait for man Or delay for the sons of men.

nasb@Micah:3:8 @The remnant of Jacob Will be among the nations, Among many peoples Like a lion among the beasts of the forest, Like a young lion among flocks of sheep, Which, if he passes through, Tramples down and tears, And there is none to rescue.

nasb@Micah:3:9 @Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries, And all your enemies will be cut off.

nasb@Micah:3:10" @It will be in that day," declares the LORD, " That I will cut off your horses from among you And destroy your chariots.

nasb@Micah:3:11" @I will also cut off the cities of your land And tear down all your fortifications.

nasb@Micah:3:12" @I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you will have fortune-tellers no more.

nasb@Micah:3:13" @ I will cut off your carved images And your sacred pillars from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.

nasb@Micah:3:14" @I will root out your Asherim from among you And destroy your cities.

nasb@Micah:3:15" @And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath On the nations which have not obeyed."

nasb@Micah:3:6 @Hear now what the LORD is saying, "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.

nasb@Micah:3:2" @Listen, you mountains, to the indictment of the LORD, And you enduring foundations of the earth, Because the LORD has a case against His people; Even with Israel He will dispute.

nasb@Micah:3:3" @ My people, what have I done to you, And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.

nasb@Micah:3:4" @Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt And ransomed you from the house of slavery, And I sent before you Moses, Aaron and Miriam.

nasb@Micah:3:5" @My people, remember now What Balak king of Moab counseled And what Balaam son of Beor answered him, And from Shittim to Gilgal, So that you might know the righteous acts of the LORD."

nasb@Micah:3:6 @With what shall I come to the LORD And bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, With yearling calves?

nasb@Micah:3:7 @Does the LORD take delight in thousands of rams, In ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

nasb@Micah:3:8 @He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?

nasb@Micah:3:9 @The voice of the LORD will call to the city-- And it is sound wisdom to fear Your name- "Hear, O tribe. Who has appointed its time?

nasb@Micah:3:10" @Is there yet a man in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness And a short measure that is cursed?

nasb@Micah:3:11" @Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights?

nasb@Micah:3:12" @For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

nasb@Micah:3:13" @So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.

nasb@Micah:3:14" @You will eat, but you will not be satisfied, And your vileness will be in your midst. You will try to remove for safekeeping, But you will not preserve anything, And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.

nasb@Micah:3:15" @You will sow but you will not reap. You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil; And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

nasb@Micah:3:16" @The statutes of Omri And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed; And in their devices you walk. Therefore I will give you up for destruction And your inhabitants for derision, And you will bear the reproach of My people."

nasb@Micah:4:1 @Woe is me! For I am Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers. There is not a cluster of grapes to eat, Or a first-ripe fig which I crave.

nasb@Micah:4:2 @The godly person has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.

nasb@Micah:4:3 @Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe, And a great man speaks the desire of his soul; So they weave it together.

nasb@Micah:4:4 @The best of them is like a briar, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment will come. Then their confusion will occur.

nasb@Micah:4:5 @Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips.

nasb@Micah:4:6 @For son treats father contemptuously, Daughter rises up against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own household.

nasb@Micah:4:7 @But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

nasb@Micah:4:8 @Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for me.

nasb@Micah:4:9 @I will bear the indignation of the LORD Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me out to the light, And I will see His righteousness.

nasb@Micah:4:10 @Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look on her; At that time she will be trampled down Like mire of the streets.

nasb@Micah:4:11 @It will be a day for building your walls. On that day will your boundary be extended.

nasb@Micah:4:12 @It will be a day when they will come to you From Assyria and the cities of Egypt, From Egypt even to the Euphrates, Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

nasb@Micah:4:13 @And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds.

nasb@Micah:4:14 @Shepherd Your people with Your scepter, The flock of Your possession Which dwells by itself in the woodland, In the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead As in the days of old.

nasb@Micah:4:15" @As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show you miracles."

nasb@Micah:4:16 @Nations will see and be ashamed Of all their might. They will put their hand on their mouth, Their ears will be deaf.

nasb@Micah:4:17 @They will lick the dust like a serpent, Like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; To the LORD our God they will come in dread And they will be afraid before You.

nasb@Micah:4:18 @Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in unchanging love.

nasb@Micah:4:19 @He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.

nasb@Micah:4:20 @You will give truth to Jacob And unchanging love to Abraham, Which You swore to our forefathers From the days of old.

nasb@Nahum:1:1 @The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

nasb@Nahum:1:2 @A jealous and avenging God is the LORD; The LORD is avenging and wrathful. The LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies.

nasb@Nahum:1:3 @The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

nasb@Nahum:1:4 @He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither; The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

nasb@Nahum:1:5 @Mountains quake because of Him And the hills dissolve; Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all the inhabitants in it.

nasb@Nahum:1:6 @Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire And the rocks are broken up by Him.

nasb@Nahum:1:7 @The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him.

nasb@Nahum:1:8 @But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

nasb@Nahum:1:9 @Whatever you devise against the LORD, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice.

nasb@Nahum:1:10 @Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered.

nasb@Nahum:1:11 @From you has gone forth One who plotted evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.

nasb@Nahum:1:12 @Thus says the LORD, "Though they are at full strength and likewise many, Even so, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.

nasb@Nahum:1:13" @So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you, And I will tear off your shackles."

nasb@Nahum:1:14 @The LORD has issued a command concerning you- "Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will cut off idol and image From the house of your gods. I will prepare your grave, For you are contemptible."

nasb@Nahum:1:15 @Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; Pay your vows. For never again will the wicked one pass through you; He is cut off completely.

nasb@Nahum:2:1 @The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength.

nasb@Nahum:2:2 @For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob Like the splendor of Israel, Even though devastators have devastated them And destroyed their vine branches.

nasb@Nahum:2:3 @The shields of his mighty men are colored red, The warriors are dressed in scarlet, The chariots are enveloped in flashing steel When he is prepared to march, And the cypress spears are brandished.

nasb@Nahum:2:4 @The chariots race madly in the streets, They rush wildly in the squares, Their appearance is like torches, They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.

nasb@Nahum:2:5 @He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.

nasb@Nahum:2:6 @The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved.

nasb@Nahum:2:7 @It is fixed- She is stripped, she is carried away, And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves, Beating on their breasts.

nasb@Nahum:2:8 @Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; "Stop, stop," But no one turns back.

nasb@Nahum:2:9 @Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure-- Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

nasb@Nahum:2:10 @She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body And all their faces are grown pale!

nasb@Nahum:2:11 @Where is the den of the lions And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion, lioness and lion's cub prowled, With nothing to disturb them?

nasb@Nahum:2:12 @The lion tore enough for his cubs, Killed enough for his lionesses, And filled his lairs with prey And his dens with torn flesh.

nasb@Nahum:2:13" @Behold, I am against you," declares the LORD of hosts. "I will burn up her chariots in smoke, a sword will devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard."

nasb@Nahum:3:1 @Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.

nasb@Nahum:3:2 @The noise of the whip, The noise of the rattling of the wheel, Galloping horses And bounding chariots!

nasb@Nahum:3:3 @Horsemen charging, Swords flashing, spears gleaming, Many slain, a mass of corpses, And countless dead bodies-- They stumble over the dead bodies!

nasb@Nahum:3:4 @All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.

nasb@Nahum:3:5" @Behold, I am against you," declares the LORD of hosts; "And I will lift up your skirts over your face, And show to the nations your nakedness And to the kingdoms your disgrace.

nasb@Nahum:3:6" @I will throw filth on you And make you vile, And set you up as a spectacle.

nasb@Nahum:3:7" @And it will come about that all who see you Will shrink from you and say, 'Nineveh is devastated! Who will grieve for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"

nasb@Nahum:3:8 @Are you better than No-amon, Which was situated by the waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?

nasb@Nahum:3:9 @Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

nasb@Nahum:3:10 @Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.

nasb@Nahum:3:11 @You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

nasb@Nahum:3:12 @All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit-- When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.

nasb@Nahum:3:13 @Behold, your people are women in your midst! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.

nasb@Nahum:3:14 @Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

nasb@Nahum:3:15 @There fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.

nasb@Nahum:3:16 @You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust strips and flies away.

nasb@Nahum:3:17 @Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.

nasb@Nahum:3:18 @Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.

nasb@Nahum:3:19 @There is no relief for your breakdown, Your wound is incurable. All who hear about you Will clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continuallyNULL

nasb@Habakkuk:1:1 @The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:2 @How long, O LORD, will I call for help, And You will not hear? I cry out to You, "Violence!" Yet You do not save.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:3 @Why do You make me see iniquity, And cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:4 @Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:5" @ Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days-- You would not believe if you were told.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:6" @For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:7" @They are dreaded and feared; Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:8" @Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping, Their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:9" @All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They collect captives like sand.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:10" @They mock at kings And rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress And heap up rubble to capture it.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:11" @Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on. But they will be held guilty, They whose strength is their god."

nasb@Habakkuk:1:12 @Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge; And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:13 @Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they?

nasb@Habakkuk:1:14 @Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

nasb@Habakkuk:1:15 @The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:16 @Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net And burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful.

nasb@Habakkuk:1:17 @Will they therefore empty their net And continually slay nations without sparingNULL

nasb@Habakkuk:2:1 @I will stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am reproved.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:2 @Then the LORD answered me and said, " Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:3" @For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:4" @Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:5" @Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:6" @Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him, Even mockery and insinuations against him And say, ' Woe to him who increases what is not his-- For how long-- And makes himself rich with loans?'

nasb@Habakkuk:2:7" @Will not your creditors rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:8" @Because you have looted many nations, All the remainder of the peoples will loot you-- Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:9" @Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

nasb@Habakkuk:2:10" @You have devised a shameful thing for your house By cutting off many peoples; So you are sinning against yourself.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:11" @Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:12" @Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed And founds a town with violence!

nasb@Habakkuk:2:13" @Is it not indeed from the LORD of hosts That peoples toil for fire, And nations grow weary for nothing?

nasb@Habakkuk:2:14" @For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:15" @Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk So as to look on their nakedness!

nasb@Habakkuk:2:16" @You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor. Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness. The cup in the LORD'S right hand will come around to you, And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:17" @For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them, Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:18" @What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it, Or an image, a teacher of falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own handiwork When he fashions speechless idols.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:19" @Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ' Awake!' To a mute stone, 'Arise!' And that is your teacher? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all inside it.

nasb@Habakkuk:2:20" @But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him."

nasb@Habakkuk:3:1 @A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:2 @LORD, I have heard the report about You and I fear. O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:3 @God comes from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor covers the heavens, And the earth is full of His praise.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:4 @His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:5 @Before Him goes pestilence, And plague comes after Him.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:6 @He stood and surveyed the earth; He looked and startled the nations. Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered, The ancient hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:7 @I saw the tents of Cushan under distress, The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:8 @Did the LORD rage against the rivers, Or was Your anger against the rivers, Or was Your wrath against the sea, That You rode on Your horses, On Your chariots of salvation?

nasb@Habakkuk:3:9 @Your bow was made bare, The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah. You cleaved the earth with rivers.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:10 @The mountains saw You and quaked; The downpour of waters swept by. The deep uttered forth its voice, It lifted high its hands.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:11 @Sun and moon stood in their places; They went away at the light of Your arrows, At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:12 @In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:13 @You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:14 @You pierced with his own spears The head of his throngs. They stormed in to scatter us; Their exultation was like those Who devour the oppressed in secret.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:15 @You trampled on the sea with Your horses, On the surge of many waters.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:16 @I heard and my inward parts trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, For the people to arise who will invade us.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:17 @Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls,

nasb@Habakkuk:3:18 @Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

nasb@Habakkuk:3:19 @The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my high places. For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:1 @The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah-

nasb@Zephaniah:0:2" @I will completely remove all things From the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:3" @I will remove man and beast; I will remove the birds of the sky And the fish of the sea, And the ruins along with the wicked; And I will cut off man from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:4" @So I will stretch out My hand against Judah And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, And the names of the idolatrous priests along with the priests.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:5" @And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven, And those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom,

nasb@Zephaniah:0:6 @And those who have turned back from following the LORD, And those who have not sought the LORD or inquired of Him."

nasb@Zephaniah:0:7 @Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near, For the LORD has prepared a sacrifice, He has consecrated His guests.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:8" @Then it will come about on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice That I will punish the princes, the king's sons And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:9" @And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold, Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:10" @On that day," declares the LORD, "There will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, A wail from the Second Quarter, And a loud crash from the hills.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:11" @Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar, For all the people of Canaan will be silenced; All who weigh out silver will be cut off.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:12" @It will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit, Who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good or evil!'

nasb@Zephaniah:0:13" @Moreover, their wealth will become plunder And their houses desolate; Yes, they will build houses but not inhabit them, And plant vineyards but not drink their wine."

nasb@Zephaniah:0:14 @Near is the great day of the LORD, Near and coming very quickly; Listen, the day of the LORD! In it the warrior cries out bitterly.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:15 @A day of wrath is that day, A day of trouble and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness,

nasb@Zephaniah:0:16 @A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:17 @I will bring distress on men So that they will walk like the blind, Because they have sinned against the LORD; And their blood will be poured out like dust And their flesh like dung.

nasb@Zephaniah:0:18 @Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD'S wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:1 @Gather yourselves together, yes, gather, O nation without shame,

nasb@Zephaniah:1:2 @Before the decree takes effect-- The day passes like the chaff-- Before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:3 @Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD'S anger.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:4 @For Gaza will be abandoned And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon And Ekron will be uprooted.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:5 @Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will destroy you So that there will be no inhabitant.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:6 @So the seacoast will be pastures, With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:7 @And the coast will be For the remnant of the house of Judah, They will pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening; For the LORD their God will care for them And restore their fortune.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:8" @I have heard the taunting of Moab And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, With which they have taunted My people And become arrogant against their territory.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:9" @Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."

nasb@Zephaniah:1:10 @This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:11 @The LORD will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:12" @You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword."

nasb@Zephaniah:1:13 @And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:14 @Flocks will lie down in her midst, All beasts which range in herds; Both the pelican and the hedgehog Will lodge in the tops of her pillars; Birds will sing in the window, Desolation will be on the threshold; For He has laid bare the cedar work.

nasb@Zephaniah:1:15 @This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, " I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand in contempt.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:1 @Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city!

nasb@Zephaniah:2:2 @She heeded no voice, She accepted no instruction. She did not trust in the LORD, She did not draw near to her God.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:3 @Her princes within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They leave nothing for the morning.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:4 @Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:5 @The LORD is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the unjust knows no shame.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:6" @I have cut off nations; Their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate, With no one passing by; Their cities are laid waste, Without a man, without an inhabitant.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:7" @I said, 'Surely you will revere Me, Accept instruction.' So her dwelling will not be cut off According to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:8" @Therefore wait for Me," declares the LORD, "For the day when I rise up as a witness. Indeed, My decision is to gather nations, To assemble kingdoms, To pour out on them My indignation, All My burning anger; For all the earth will be devoured By the fire of My zeal.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:9" @For then I will give to the peoples purified lips, That all of them may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:10" @From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My worshipers, My dispersed ones, Will bring My offerings.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:11" @In that day you will feel no shame Because of all your deeds By which you have rebelled against Me; For then I will remove from your midst Your proud, exulting ones, And you will never again be haughty On My holy mountain.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:12" @But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people, And they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:13" @The remnant of Israel will do no wrong And tell no lies, Nor will a deceitful tongue Be found in their mouths; For they will feed and lie down With no one to make them tremble."

nasb@Zephaniah:2:14 @Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!

nasb@Zephaniah:2:15 @The LORD has taken away His judgments against you, He has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; You will fear disaster no more.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:16 @In that day it will be said to Jerusalem- " Do not be afraid, O Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:17" @The LORD your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:18" @I will gather those who grieve about the appointed feasts-- They came from you, O Zion; The reproach of exile is a burden on them.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:19" @Behold, I am going to deal at that time With all your oppressors, I will save the lame And gather the outcast, And I will turn their shame into praise and renown In all the earth.

nasb@Zephaniah:2:20" @At that time I will bring you in, Even at the time when I gather you together; Indeed, I will give you renown and praise Among all the peoples of the earth, When I restore your fortunes before your eyes," Says the LORD.

nasb@Haggai:0:1 @In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

nasb@Haggai:0:2" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not come, even the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt."'"

nasb@Haggai:0:3 @Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

nasb@Haggai:0:4" @Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?"

nasb@Haggai:0:5 @Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!

nasb@Haggai:0:6" @You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes."

nasb@Haggai:0:7 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!

nasb@Haggai:0:8" @Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified," says the LORD.

nasb@Haggai:0:9" @ You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of hosts, "Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

nasb@Haggai:0:10" @Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

nasb@Haggai:0:11" @I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands."

nasb@Haggai:0:12 @Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people showed reverence for the LORD.

nasb@Haggai:0:13 @Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke by the commission of the LORD to the people saying, " ' I am with you,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Haggai:0:14 @So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

nasb@Haggai:1:1 @on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

nasb@Haggai:1:2 @On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet saying,

nasb@Haggai:1:2" @Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people saying,

nasb@Haggai:1:3 @'Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem to you like nothing in comparison?

nasb@Haggai:1:4 @'But now take courage, Zerubbabel,' declares the LORD, 'take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,' declares the LORD, 'and work; for I am with you,' declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Haggai:1:5 @'As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!'

nasb@Haggai:1:6" @For thus says the LORD of hosts, ' Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.

nasb@Haggai:1:7 @'I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Haggai:1:8 @'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Haggai:1:9 @'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says the LORD of hosts, 'and in this place I will give peace,' declares the LORD of hosts."

nasb@Haggai:1:10 @On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,

nasb@Haggai:1:11" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, ' Ask now the priests for a ruling-

nasb@Haggai:1:12 @'If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?'" And the priests answered, "No."

nasb@Haggai:1:13 @Then Haggai said, " If one who is unclean from a corpse touches any of these, will the latter become unclean?" And the priests answered, "It will become unclean."

nasb@Haggai:1:14 @Then Haggai said, " ' So is this people. And so is this nation before Me,' declares the LORD, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

nasb@Haggai:1:15 @'But now, do consider from this day onward- before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

nasb@Haggai:1:16 @from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

nasb@Haggai:1:17 @'I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Haggai:1:18 @'Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the LORD was founded, consider-

nasb@Haggai:1:19 @'Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.'"

nasb@Haggai:1:20 @Then the word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

nasb@Haggai:1:21" @Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.

nasb@Haggai:1:22 @'I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another.'

nasb@Haggai:1:23 @'On that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,' declares the LORD, 'and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,'" declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:0:1 @In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying,

nasb@Zechariah:0:2" @The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

nasb@Zechariah:0:3" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, " Return to Me," declares the LORD of hosts, "that I may return to you," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:0:4" @Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, " Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds."' But they did not listen or give heed to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:0:5" @Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

nasb@Zechariah:0:6" @But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ' As the LORD of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.'"'"

nasb@Zechariah:0:7 @On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, as follows-

nasb@Zechariah:0:8 @I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.

nasb@Zechariah:0:9 @Then I said, "My lord, what are these?" And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."

nasb@Zechariah:0:10 @And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth."

nasb@Zechariah:0:11 @So they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, "We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet."

nasb@Zechariah:0:12 @Then the angel of the LORD said, "O LORD of hosts, how long will You have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant these seventy years?"

nasb@Zechariah:0:13 @The LORD answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.

nasb@Zechariah:0:14 @So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, " Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.

nasb@Zechariah:0:15" @But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster."

nasb@Zechariah:0:16 @'Therefore thus says the LORD, "I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it," declares the LORD of hosts, "and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem."'

nasb@Zechariah:0:17" @Again, proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem."'"

nasb@Zechariah:0:18 @Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there were four horns.

nasb@Zechariah:0:19 @So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem."

nasb@Zechariah:0:20 @Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

nasb@Zechariah:0:21 @I said, "What are these coming to doNULL" And he said, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it."

nasb@Zechariah:1:1 @Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

nasb@Zechariah:1:2 @So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is."

nasb@Zechariah:1:3 @And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

nasb@Zechariah:1:4 @and said to him, "Run, speak to that young man, saying, ' Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it.

nasb@Zechariah:1:5 @'For I,' declares the LORD, 'will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"

nasb@Zechariah:1:6" @Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:1:7" @Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."

nasb@Zechariah:1:8 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, "After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

nasb@Zechariah:1:9" @For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.

nasb@Zechariah:1:10" @ Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:1:11" @ Many nations will join themselves to the LORD in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.

nasb@Zechariah:1:12" @The LORD will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

nasb@Zechariah:1:13" @ Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for He is aroused from His holy habitation."

nasb@Zechariah:2:1 @Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

nasb@Zechariah:2:2 @The LORD said to Satan, " The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"

nasb@Zechariah:2:3 @Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.

nasb@Zechariah:2:4 @He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, " Remove the filthy garments from him." Again he said to him, "See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes."

nasb@Zechariah:2:5 @Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by.

nasb@Zechariah:2:6 @And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:2:7" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.

nasb@Zechariah:2:8 @'Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you--indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch.

nasb@Zechariah:2:9 @'For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

nasb@Zechariah:2:10 @'In that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.'"

nasb@Zechariah:3:1 @Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep.

nasb@Zechariah:3:2 @He said to me, " What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;

nasb@Zechariah:3:3 @also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side."

nasb@Zechariah:3:4 @Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, "What are these, my lord?"

nasb@Zechariah:3:5 @So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, " Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

nasb@Zechariah:3:6 @Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ' Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:3:7 @'What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"'"

nasb@Zechariah:3:8 @Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:3:9" @The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

nasb@Zechariah:3:10" @For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel--these are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth."

nasb@Zechariah:3:11 @Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?"

nasb@Zechariah:3:12 @And I answered the second time and said to him, "What are the two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?"

nasb@Zechariah:3:13 @So he answered me, saying, " Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

nasb@Zechariah:3:14 @Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth."

nasb@Zechariah:4:1 @Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

nasb@Zechariah:4:2 @And he said to me, " What do you see?" And I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits."

nasb@Zechariah:4:3 @Then he said to me, "This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.

nasb@Zechariah:4:4" @I will make it go forth," declares the LORD of hosts, "and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones."

nasb@Zechariah:4:5 @Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth."

nasb@Zechariah:4:6 @I said, "What is it?" And he said, "This is the ephah going forth." Again he said, "This is their appearance in all the land

nasb@Zechariah:4:7 @(and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah."

nasb@Zechariah:4:8 @Then he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening.

nasb@Zechariah:4:9 @Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

nasb@Zechariah:4:10 @I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"

nasb@Zechariah:4:11 @Then he said to me, "To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal."

nasb@Zechariah:5:1 @Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains.

nasb@Zechariah:5:2 @With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,

nasb@Zechariah:5:3 @with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled horses.

nasb@Zechariah:5:4 @Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking with me, " What are these, my lord?"

nasb@Zechariah:5:5 @The angel replied to me, "These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth,

nasb@Zechariah:5:6 @with one of which the black horses are going forth to the north country; and the white ones go forth after them, while the dappled ones go forth to the south country.

nasb@Zechariah:5:7" @When the strong ones went out, they were eager to go to patrol the earth." And He said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.

nasb@Zechariah:5:8 @Then He cried out to me and spoke to me saying, "See, those who are going to the land of the north have appeased My wrath in the land of the north."

nasb@Zechariah:5:9 @The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:5:10" @ Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah; and you go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.

nasb@Zechariah:5:11" @Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

nasb@Zechariah:5:12" @Then say to him, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:5:13" @Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His throne. Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices."'

nasb@Zechariah:5:14" @Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah.

nasb@Zechariah:5:15" @ Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD." Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely obey the LORD your God.

nasb@Zechariah:6:1 @In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

nasb@Zechariah:6:2 @Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,

nasb@Zechariah:6:3 @speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?"

nasb@Zechariah:6:4 @Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:6:5" @Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

nasb@Zechariah:6:6 @'When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?

nasb@Zechariah:6:7 @'Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?'"

nasb@Zechariah:6:8 @Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,

nasb@Zechariah:6:9" @Thus has the LORD of hosts said, ' Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

nasb@Zechariah:6:10 @and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:11" @But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.

nasb@Zechariah:6:12" @They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:6:13" @And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts;

nasb@Zechariah:6:14" @but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate."

nasb@Zechariah:6:8 @Then the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:6:2" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:3" @Thus says the LORD, 'I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:4" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, ' Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of age.

nasb@Zechariah:6:5 @'And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:6" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If it is too difficult in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be too difficult in My sight?' declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:6:7" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west;

nasb@Zechariah:6:8 @and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:9" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Let your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from the mouth of the prophets, those who spoke in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, to the end that the temple might be built.

nasb@Zechariah:6:10 @'For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.

nasb@Zechariah:6:11 @'But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,' declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Zechariah:6:12 @'For there will be peace for the seed- the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

nasb@Zechariah:6:13 @'It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:14" @For thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,' says the LORD of hosts, 'and I have not relented,

nasb@Zechariah:6:15 @so I have again purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!

nasb@Zechariah:6:16 @'These are the things which you should do- speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.

nasb@Zechariah:6:17 @'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Zechariah:6:18 @Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

nasb@Zechariah:6:19" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:20" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

nasb@Zechariah:6:21 @'The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will also go."

nasb@Zechariah:6:22 @'So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.'

nasb@Zechariah:6:23" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."'"

nasb@Zechariah:7:1 @The burden of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the LORD),

nasb@Zechariah:7:2 @And Hamath also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

nasb@Zechariah:7:3 @For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.

nasb@Zechariah:7:4 @Behold, the Lord will dispossess her And cast her wealth into the sea; And she will be consumed with fire.

nasb@Zechariah:7:5 @Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza too will writhe in great pain; Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

nasb@Zechariah:7:6 @And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

nasb@Zechariah:7:7 @And I will remove their blood from their mouth And their detestable things from between their teeth. Then they also will be a remnant for our God, And be like a clan in Judah, And Ekron like a Jebusite.

nasb@Zechariah:7:8 @But I will camp around My house because of an army, Because of him who passes by and returns; And no oppressor will pass over them anymore, For now I have seen with My eyes.

nasb@Zechariah:7:9 @Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

nasb@Zechariah:7:10 @I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.

nasb@Zechariah:7:11 @As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

nasb@Zechariah:7:12 @Return to the stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.

nasb@Zechariah:7:13 @For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece; And I will make you like a warrior's sword.

nasb@Zechariah:7:14 @Then the LORD will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, And will march in the storm winds of the south.

nasb@Zechariah:7:15 @The LORD of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and trample on the sling stones; And they will drink and be boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the corners of the altar.

nasb@Zechariah:7:16 @And the LORD their God will save them in that day As the flock of His people; For they are as the stones of a crown, Sparkling in His land.

nasb@Zechariah:7:17 @For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

nasb@Zechariah:8:1 @Ask rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain-- The LORD who makes the storm clouds; And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.

nasb@Zechariah:8:2 @For the teraphim speak iniquity, And the diviners see lying visions And tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

nasb@Zechariah:8:3" @My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For the LORD of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.

nasb@Zechariah:8:4" @From them will come the cornerstone, From them the tent peg, From them the bow of battle, From them every ruler, all of them together.

nasb@Zechariah:8:5" @They will be as mighty men, Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle; And they will fight, for the LORD will be with them; And the riders on horses will be put to shame.

nasb@Zechariah:8:6" @I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.

nasb@Zechariah:8:7" @Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:8:8" @I will whistle for them to gather them together, For I have redeemed them; And they will be as numerous as they were before.

nasb@Zechariah:8:9" @When I scatter them among the peoples, They will remember Me in far countries, And they with their children will live and come back.

nasb@Zechariah:8:10" @I will bring them back from the land of Egypt And gather them from Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon Until no room can be found for them.

nasb@Zechariah:8:11" @And they will pass through the sea of distress And He will strike the waves in the sea, So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down And the scepter of Egypt will depart.

nasb@Zechariah:8:12" @And I will strengthen them in the LORD, And in His name they will walk," declares the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:9:1 @Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars.

nasb@Zechariah:9:2 @Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest has come down.

nasb@Zechariah:9:3 @There is a sound of the shepherds' wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a sound of the young lions' roar, For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

nasb@Zechariah:9:4 @Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.

nasb@Zechariah:9:5" @Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!' And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

nasb@Zechariah:9:6" @For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another's power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power."

nasb@Zechariah:9:7 @So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs- the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

nasb@Zechariah:9:8 @Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

nasb@Zechariah:9:9 @Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another's flesh."

nasb@Zechariah:9:10 @I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

nasb@Zechariah:9:11 @So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:9:12 @I said to them, "If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.

nasb@Zechariah:9:13 @Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

nasb@Zechariah:9:14 @Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

nasb@Zechariah:9:15 @The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

nasb@Zechariah:9:16" @For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

nasb@Zechariah:9:17" @ Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm And on his right eye! His arm will be totally withered And his right eye will be blind."

nasb@Zechariah:9:12 @The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him,

nasb@Zechariah:9:2" @Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.

nasb@Zechariah:9:3" @It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

nasb@Zechariah:9:4" @In that day," declares the LORD, "I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

nasb@Zechariah:9:5" @Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, 'A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

nasb@Zechariah:9:6" @In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

nasb@Zechariah:9:7" @The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.

nasb@Zechariah:9:8" @In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.

nasb@Zechariah:9:9" @And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

nasb@Zechariah:9:10" @I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

nasb@Zechariah:9:11" @In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

nasb@Zechariah:9:12" @The land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;

nasb@Zechariah:9:13 @the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;

nasb@Zechariah:9:14 @all the families that remain, every family by itself and their wives by themselves.

nasb@Zechariah:9:13" @In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

nasb@Zechariah:9:2" @It will come about in that day," declares the LORD of hosts, "that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

nasb@Zechariah:9:3" @And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD'; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

nasb@Zechariah:9:4" @Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;

nasb@Zechariah:9:5 @but he will say, 'I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.'

nasb@Zechariah:9:6" @And one will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will say, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'

nasb@Zechariah:9:7" @Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, And against the man, My Associate," Declares the LORD of hosts. " Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

nasb@Zechariah:9:8" @It will come about in all the land," Declares the LORD, "That two parts in it will be cut off and perish; But the third will be left in it.

nasb@Zechariah:9:9" @And I will bring the third part through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say, 'They are My people,' And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

nasb@Zechariah:10:1 @Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

nasb@Zechariah:10:2 @For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

nasb@Zechariah:10:3 @Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.

nasb@Zechariah:10:4 @In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.

nasb@Zechariah:10:5 @You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

nasb@Zechariah:10:6 @In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.

nasb@Zechariah:10:7 @For it will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.

nasb@Zechariah:10:8 @And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

nasb@Zechariah:10:9 @And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.

nasb@Zechariah:10:10 @All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses.

nasb@Zechariah:10:11 @People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.

nasb@Zechariah:10:12 @Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

nasb@Zechariah:10:13 @It will come about in that day that a great panic from the LORD will fall on them; and they will seize one another's hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another.

nasb@Zechariah:10:14 @Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.

nasb@Zechariah:10:15 @So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

nasb@Zechariah:10:16 @Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

nasb@Zechariah:10:17 @And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

nasb@Zechariah:10:18 @If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

nasb@Zechariah:10:19 @This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

nasb@Zechariah:10:20 @In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, " HOLY TO THE LORD." And the cooking pots in the LORD'S house will be like the bowls before the altar.

nasb@Zechariah:10:21 @Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.

nasb@Malachi:0:1 @The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.

nasb@Malachi:0:2" @I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob;

nasb@Malachi:0:3 @but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

nasb@Malachi:0:4 @Though Edom says, "We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins"; thus says the LORD of hosts, "They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the LORD is indignant forever."

nasb@Malachi:0:5 @Your eyes will see this and you will say, " The LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel!"

nasb@Malachi:0:6" @ 'A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?' says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How have we despised Your name?'

nasb@Malachi:0:7" @You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you say, 'How have we defiled You?' In that you say, 'The table of the LORD is to be despised.'

nasb@Malachi:0:8" @But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would he receive you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:9" @But now will you not entreat God's favor, that He may be gracious to us? With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:10" @Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD of hosts, " nor will I accept an offering from you.

nasb@Malachi:0:11" @For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:12" @But you are profaning it, in that you say, 'The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'

nasb@Malachi:0:13" @You also say, 'My, how tiresome it is!' And you disdainfully sniff at it," says the LORD of hosts, "and you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?" says the LORD.

nasb@Malachi:0:14" @But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King," says the LORD of hosts, "and My name is feared among the nations."

nasb@Malachi:0:2" @And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

nasb@Malachi:0:2" @If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name," says the LORD of hosts, "then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

nasb@Malachi:0:3" @Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

nasb@Malachi:0:4" @Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:5" @My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

nasb@Malachi:0:6" @ True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity.

nasb@Malachi:0:7" @For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:8" @But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:9" @So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

nasb@Malachi:0:10" @Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

nasb@Malachi:0:11" @Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

nasb@Malachi:0:12" @As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who awakes and answers, or who presents an offering to the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:13" @This is another thing you do- you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.

nasb@Malachi:0:14" @Yet you say, 'For what reason?' Because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

nasb@Malachi:0:15" @But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

nasb@Malachi:0:16" @For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."

nasb@Malachi:0:17 @You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, "How have we wearied HimNULL" In that you say, " Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them," or, " Where is the God of justiceNULL"

nasb@Malachi:0:3" @ Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:2" @But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

nasb@Malachi:0:3" @He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.

nasb@Malachi:0:4" @Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.

nasb@Malachi:0:5" @Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:6" @For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

nasb@Malachi:0:7" @From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

nasb@Malachi:0:8" @Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings.

nasb@Malachi:0:9" @You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

nasb@Malachi:0:10" @ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.

nasb@Malachi:0:11" @Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:12" @ All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:13" @Your words have been arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?'

nasb@Malachi:0:14" @You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

nasb@Malachi:0:15 @'So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.'"

nasb@Malachi:0:16 @Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.

nasb@Malachi:0:17" @They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."

nasb@Malachi:0:18 @So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

nasb@Malachi:0:4" @For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch."

nasb@Malachi:0:2" @But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

nasb@Malachi:0:3" @You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Malachi:0:4" @ Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

nasb@Malachi:0:5" @Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

nasb@Malachi:0:6" @He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse."

nasb@Matthew:1:1 @The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham-

nasb@Matthew:1:2 @Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

nasb@Matthew:1:3 @Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

nasb@Matthew:1:4 @Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

nasb@Matthew:1:5 @Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.

nasb@Matthew:1:6 @Jesse was the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah.

nasb@Matthew:1:7 @Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

nasb@Matthew:1:8 @Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.

nasb@Matthew:1:9 @Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.

nasb@Matthew:1:10 @Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, and Amon the father of Josiah.

nasb@Matthew:1:11 @Josiah became the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

nasb@Matthew:1:12 @After the deportation to Babylon- Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel.

nasb@Matthew:1:13 @Zerubbabel was the father of Abihud, Abihud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.

nasb@Matthew:1:14 @Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.

nasb@Matthew:1:15 @Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob.

nasb@Matthew:1:16 @Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.

nasb@Matthew:1:17 @So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.

nasb@Matthew:1:18 @Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows- when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Matthew:1:19 @And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

nasb@Matthew:1:20 @But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, " Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Matthew:1:21" @She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."

nasb@Matthew:1:22 @Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet-

nasb@Matthew:1:23" @ BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL," which translated means, " GOD WITH US."

nasb@Matthew:1:24 @And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife,

nasb@Matthew:2:1 @but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.

nasb@Matthew:2:2 @Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,

nasb@Matthew:2:2" @Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him."

nasb@Matthew:2:3 @When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

nasb@Matthew:2:4 @Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.

nasb@Matthew:2:5 @They said to him, " In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet-

nasb@Matthew:2:6 @' AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'"

nasb@Matthew:2:7 @Then Herod secretly called the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared.

nasb@Matthew:2:8 @And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him."

nasb@Matthew:2:9 @After hearing the king, they went their way; and the star, which they had seen in the east, went on before them until it came and stood over the place where the Child was.

nasb@Matthew:2:10 @When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.

nasb@Matthew:2:11 @After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

nasb@Matthew:2:12 @And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.

nasb@Matthew:2:13 @Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him."

nasb@Matthew:2:14 @So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt.

nasb@Matthew:2:15 @He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet- " OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON."

nasb@Matthew:2:16 @Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

nasb@Matthew:2:17 @Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled-

nasb@Matthew:2:18" @ A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."

nasb@Matthew:2:19 @But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,

nasb@Matthew:2:20" @Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child's life are dead."

nasb@Matthew:2:21 @So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.

nasb@Matthew:2:22 @But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Then after being warned by God in a dream, he left for the regions of Galilee,

nasb@Matthew:2:23 @and came and lived in a city called Nazareth. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets- "He shall be called a Nazarene."

nasb@Matthew:2:3 @Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

nasb@Matthew:2:2" @ Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

nasb@Matthew:2:3 @For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said, " THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, ' MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!'"

nasb@Matthew:2:4 @Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

nasb@Matthew:2:5 @Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;

nasb@Matthew:2:6 @and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

nasb@Matthew:2:7 @But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nasb@Matthew:2:8" @ Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;

nasb@Matthew:2:9 @and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ' We have Abraham for our father'; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

nasb@Matthew:2:10" @The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

nasb@Matthew:2:11" @As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

nasb@Matthew:2:12" @His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

nasb@Matthew:2:13 @Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him.

nasb@Matthew:2:14 @But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"

nasb@Matthew:2:15 @But Jesus answering said to him, "Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.

nasb@Matthew:2:16 @After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him,

nasb@Matthew:2:17 @and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, " This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased."

nasb@Matthew:3:1 @Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

nasb@Matthew:3:2 @And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

nasb@Matthew:3:3 @And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

nasb@Matthew:3:4 @But He answered and said, "It is written, ' MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'"

nasb@Matthew:3:5 @Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

nasb@Matthew:3:6 @and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ' HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU'; and 'ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"

nasb@Matthew:3:7 @Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, ' YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'"

nasb@Matthew:3:8 @Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

nasb@Matthew:3:9 @and he said to Him, " All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."

nasb@Matthew:3:10 @Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, ' YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.'"

nasb@Matthew:3:11 @Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him.

nasb@Matthew:3:12 @Now when Jesus heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee;

nasb@Matthew:3:13 @and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.

nasb@Matthew:3:14 @This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet-

nasb@Matthew:3:15" @ THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES--

nasb@Matthew:3:16" @ THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED."

nasb@Matthew:3:17 @From that time Jesus began to preach and say, " Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

nasb@Matthew:3:18 @Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

nasb@Matthew:3:19 @And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

nasb@Matthew:3:20 @Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:3:21 @Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.

nasb@Matthew:3:22 @Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:3:23 @Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

nasb@Matthew:3:24 @The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

nasb@Matthew:3:25 @Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.

nasb@Matthew:4:1 @When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

nasb@Matthew:4:2 @He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,

nasb@Matthew:4:3" @ Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:4" @Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

nasb@Matthew:4:5" @Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

nasb@Matthew:4:6" @Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

nasb@Matthew:4:7" @Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

nasb@Matthew:4:8" @Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

nasb@Matthew:4:9" @Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

nasb@Matthew:4:10" @Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:11" @Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

nasb@Matthew:4:12" @Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

nasb@Matthew:4:13" @You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

nasb@Matthew:4:14" @You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;

nasb@Matthew:4:15 @nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

nasb@Matthew:4:16" @Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:17" @Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

nasb@Matthew:4:18" @For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

nasb@Matthew:4:19" @Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:20" @For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:21" @ You have heard that the ancients were told, ' YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER' and 'Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.'

nasb@Matthew:4:22" @But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ' You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

nasb@Matthew:4:23" @Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

nasb@Matthew:4:24 @leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

nasb@Matthew:4:25" @ Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

nasb@Matthew:4:26" @Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.

nasb@Matthew:4:27" @ You have heard that it was said, ' YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY';

nasb@Matthew:4:28 @but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

nasb@Matthew:4:29" @ If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

nasb@Matthew:4:30" @ If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

nasb@Matthew:4:31" @It was said, ' WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE';

nasb@Matthew:4:32 @but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

nasb@Matthew:4:33" @Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ' YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.'

nasb@Matthew:4:34" @But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

nasb@Matthew:4:35 @or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.

nasb@Matthew:4:36" @Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

nasb@Matthew:4:37" @But let your statement be, 'Yes, yes' or 'No, no'; anything beyond these is of evil.

nasb@Matthew:4:38" @ You have heard that it was said, ' AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.'

nasb@Matthew:4:39" @But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

nasb@Matthew:4:40" @If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also.

nasb@Matthew:4:41" @Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two.

nasb@Matthew:4:42" @ Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

nasb@Matthew:4:43" @ You have heard that it was said, ' YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.'

nasb@Matthew:4:44" @But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

nasb@Matthew:4:45 @so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

nasb@Matthew:4:46" @For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

nasb@Matthew:4:47" @If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

nasb@Matthew:4:48" @Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

nasb@Matthew:4:6" @Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:2" @So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

nasb@Matthew:4:3" @But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

nasb@Matthew:4:4 @so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

nasb@Matthew:4:5" @When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

nasb@Matthew:4:6" @But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

nasb@Matthew:4:7" @And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

nasb@Matthew:4:8" @So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

nasb@Matthew:4:9" @ Pray, then, in this way- 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

nasb@Matthew:4:10 @' Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:4:11 @' Give us this day our daily bread.

nasb@Matthew:4:12 @'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

nasb@Matthew:4:13 @'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]'

nasb@Matthew:4:14" @ For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

nasb@Matthew:4:15" @But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

nasb@Matthew:4:16" @ Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

nasb@Matthew:4:17" @But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face

nasb@Matthew:4:18 @so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

nasb@Matthew:4:19" @ Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

nasb@Matthew:4:20" @But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

nasb@Matthew:4:21 @for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

nasb@Matthew:4:22" @ The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

nasb@Matthew:4:23" @But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

nasb@Matthew:4:24" @ No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

nasb@Matthew:4:25" @ For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

nasb@Matthew:4:26" @ Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

nasb@Matthew:4:27" @And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

nasb@Matthew:4:28" @And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,

nasb@Matthew:4:29 @yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

nasb@Matthew:4:30" @But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

nasb@Matthew:4:31" @Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?'

nasb@Matthew:4:32" @For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

nasb@Matthew:4:33" @But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

nasb@Matthew:4:34" @So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

nasb@Matthew:4:7" @ Do not judge so that you will not be judged.

nasb@Matthew:4:2" @For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

nasb@Matthew:4:3" @Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

nasb@Matthew:4:4" @ Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye?

nasb@Matthew:4:5" @You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

nasb@Matthew:4:6" @ Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

nasb@Matthew:4:7" @ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

nasb@Matthew:4:8" @For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

nasb@Matthew:4:9" @Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?

nasb@Matthew:4:10" @Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

nasb@Matthew:4:11" @If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

nasb@Matthew:4:12" @In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

nasb@Matthew:4:13" @ Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

nasb@Matthew:4:14" @For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

nasb@Matthew:4:15" @Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

nasb@Matthew:4:16" @You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

nasb@Matthew:4:17" @So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

nasb@Matthew:4:18" @A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

nasb@Matthew:4:19" @ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

nasb@Matthew:4:20" @So then, you will know them by their fruits.

nasb@Matthew:4:21" @ Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

nasb@Matthew:4:22" @ Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'

nasb@Matthew:4:23" @And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

nasb@Matthew:4:24" @Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

nasb@Matthew:4:25" @And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

nasb@Matthew:4:26" @Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

nasb@Matthew:4:27" @The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

nasb@Matthew:4:28 @When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching;

nasb@Matthew:4:29 @for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

nasb@Matthew:5:1 @When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:5:2 @And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

nasb@Matthew:5:3 @Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

nasb@Matthew:5:4 @And Jesus said to him, " See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

nasb@Matthew:5:5 @And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him,

nasb@Matthew:5:6 @and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented."

nasb@Matthew:5:7 @Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."

nasb@Matthew:5:8 @But the centurion said, "Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

nasb@Matthew:5:9" @For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."

nasb@Matthew:5:10 @Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, "Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel.

nasb@Matthew:5:11" @I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

nasb@Matthew:5:12 @but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

nasb@Matthew:5:13 @And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed that very moment.

nasb@Matthew:5:14 @When Jesus came into Peter's home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

nasb@Matthew:5:15 @He touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and waited on Him.

nasb@Matthew:5:16 @When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.

nasb@Matthew:5:17 @This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet- " HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES."

nasb@Matthew:5:18 @Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.

nasb@Matthew:5:19 @Then a scribe came and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go."

nasb@Matthew:5:20 @Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

nasb@Matthew:5:21 @Another of the disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

nasb@Matthew:5:22 @But Jesus said to him, " Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead."

nasb@Matthew:5:23 @When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:5:24 @And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.

nasb@Matthew:5:25 @And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, " Save us, Lord; we are perishing!"

nasb@Matthew:5:26 @He said to them, "Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

nasb@Matthew:5:27 @The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"

nasb@Matthew:5:28 @When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.

nasb@Matthew:5:29 @And they cried out, saying, " What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?"

nasb@Matthew:5:30 @Now there was a herd of many swine feeding at a distance from them.

nasb@Matthew:5:31 @The demons began to entreat Him, saying, "If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine."

nasb@Matthew:5:32 @And He said to them, "Go!" And they came out and went into the swine, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the waters.

nasb@Matthew:5:33 @The herdsmen ran away, and went to the city and reported everything, including what had happened to the demoniacs.

nasb@Matthew:5:34 @And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they implored Him to leave their region.

nasb@Matthew:6:1 @Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over the sea and came to His own city.

nasb@Matthew:6:2 @And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, " Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven."

nasb@Matthew:6:3 @And some of the scribes said to themselves, "This fellow blasphemes."

nasb@Matthew:6:4 @And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?

nasb@Matthew:6:5" @Which is easier, to say, ' Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, and walk'?

nasb@Matthew:6:6" @But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--then He said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home."

nasb@Matthew:6:7 @And he got up and went home.

nasb@Matthew:6:8 @But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

nasb@Matthew:6:9 @As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth; and He said to him, " Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:6:10 @Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.

nasb@Matthew:6:11 @When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, " Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?"

nasb@Matthew:6:12 @But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

nasb@Matthew:6:13" @But go and learn what this means- ' I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

nasb@Matthew:6:14 @Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

nasb@Matthew:6:15 @And Jesus said to them, "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

nasb@Matthew:6:16" @But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

nasb@Matthew:6:17" @Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

nasb@Matthew:6:18 @While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live."

nasb@Matthew:6:19 @Jesus got up and began to follow him, and so did His disciples.

nasb@Matthew:6:20 @And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;

nasb@Matthew:6:21 @for she was saying to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I will get well."

nasb@Matthew:6:22 @But Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well." At once the woman was made well.

nasb@Matthew:6:23 @When Jesus came into the official's house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,

nasb@Matthew:6:24 @He said, "Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep." And they began laughing at Him.

nasb@Matthew:6:25 @But when the crowd had been sent out, He entered and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

nasb@Matthew:6:26 @This news spread throughout all that land.

nasb@Matthew:6:27 @As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"

nasb@Matthew:6:28 @When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to Him, "Yes, Lord."

nasb@Matthew:6:29 @Then He touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be done to you according to your faith."

nasb@Matthew:6:30 @And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them- "See that no one knows about this!"

nasb@Matthew:6:31 @But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout all that land.

nasb@Matthew:6:32 @As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him.

nasb@Matthew:6:33 @After the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed, and were saying, " Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel."

nasb@Matthew:6:34 @But the Pharisees were saying, "He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons."

nasb@Matthew:6:35 @Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

nasb@Matthew:6:36 @Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.

nasb@Matthew:6:37 @Then He said to His disciples, " The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

nasb@Matthew:6:38" @Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest."

nasb@Matthew:7:1 @Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

nasb@Matthew:7:2 @Now the names of the twelve apostles are these- The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

nasb@Matthew:7:3 @Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

nasb@Matthew:7:4 @Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Him.

nasb@Matthew:7:5 @These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them- "Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans;

nasb@Matthew:7:6 @but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

nasb@Matthew:7:7" @And as you go, preach, saying, ' The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

nasb@Matthew:7:8" @Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

nasb@Matthew:7:9" @ Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,

nasb@Matthew:7:10 @or a bag for your journey, or even two coats, or sandals, or a staff; for the worker is worthy of his support.

nasb@Matthew:7:11" @And whatever city or village you enter, inquire who is worthy in it, and stay at his house until you leave that city.

nasb@Matthew:7:12" @As you enter the house, give it your greeting.

nasb@Matthew:7:13" @If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.

nasb@Matthew:7:14" @Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

nasb@Matthew:7:15" @Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

nasb@Matthew:7:16" @ Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

nasb@Matthew:7:17" @But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues;

nasb@Matthew:7:18 @and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

nasb@Matthew:7:19" @ But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.

nasb@Matthew:7:20" @For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

nasb@Matthew:7:21" @ Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

nasb@Matthew:7:22" @ You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

nasb@Matthew:7:23" @But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.

nasb@Matthew:7:24" @ A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master.

nasb@Matthew:7:25" @It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!

nasb@Matthew:7:26" @Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

nasb@Matthew:7:27" @ What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

nasb@Matthew:7:28" @Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

nasb@Matthew:7:29" @ Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

nasb@Matthew:7:30" @But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

nasb@Matthew:7:31" @So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

nasb@Matthew:7:32" @Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:7:33" @But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:7:34" @ Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

nasb@Matthew:7:35" @For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;

nasb@Matthew:7:36 @and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.

nasb@Matthew:7:37" @ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

nasb@Matthew:7:38" @And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

nasb@Matthew:7:39" @ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

nasb@Matthew:7:40" @ He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

nasb@Matthew:7:41" @ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

nasb@Matthew:7:42" @And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."

nasb@Matthew:8:1 @When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

nasb@Matthew:8:2 @Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples

nasb@Matthew:8:3 @and said to Him, "Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?"

nasb@Matthew:8:4 @Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see-

nasb@Matthew:8:5 @the BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.

nasb@Matthew:8:6" @And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me."

nasb@Matthew:8:7 @As these men were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

nasb@Matthew:8:8" @But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who wear soft clothing are in kings' palaces!

nasb@Matthew:8:9" @But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one who is more than a prophet.

nasb@Matthew:8:10" @This is the one about whom it is written, ' BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.'

nasb@Matthew:8:11" @Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

nasb@Matthew:8:12" @ From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.

nasb@Matthew:8:13" @For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John.

nasb@Matthew:8:14" @And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.

nasb@Matthew:8:15" @ He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

nasb@Matthew:8:16" @But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,

nasb@Matthew:8:17 @and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'

nasb@Matthew:8:18" @For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ' He has a demon!'

nasb@Matthew:8:19" @The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

nasb@Matthew:8:20 @Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.

nasb@Matthew:8:21" @ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

nasb@Matthew:8:22" @Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

nasb@Matthew:8:23" @And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day.

nasb@Matthew:8:24" @Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you."

nasb@Matthew:8:25 @At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.

nasb@Matthew:8:26" @Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

nasb@Matthew:8:27" @ All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

nasb@Matthew:8:28" @ Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

nasb@Matthew:8:29" @Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.

nasb@Matthew:8:30" @For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

nasb@Matthew:9:1 @At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat.

nasb@Matthew:9:2 @But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath."

nasb@Matthew:9:3 @But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,

nasb@Matthew:9:4 @how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

nasb@Matthew:9:5" @Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

nasb@Matthew:9:6" @But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.

nasb@Matthew:9:7" @But if you had known what this means, ' I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

nasb@Matthew:9:8" @For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

nasb@Matthew:9:9 @Departing from there, He went into their synagogue.

nasb@Matthew:9:10 @And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, " Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--so that they might accuse Him.

nasb@Matthew:9:11 @And He said to them, " What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

nasb@Matthew:9:12" @ How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

nasb@Matthew:9:13 @Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and it was restored to normal, like the other.

nasb@Matthew:9:14 @But the Pharisees went out and conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

nasb@Matthew:9:15 @But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all,

nasb@Matthew:9:16 @and warned them not to tell who He was.

nasb@Matthew:9:17 @This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet-

nasb@Matthew:9:18" @ BEHOLD, MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN; MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL is WELL-PLEASED; I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, AND HE SHALL PROCLAIM JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES.

nasb@Matthew:9:19" @ HE WILL NOT QUARREL, NOR CRY OUT; NOR WILL ANYONE HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS.

nasb@Matthew:9:20" @ A BATTERED REED HE WILL NOT OFF, AND A SMOLDERING WICK HE WILL NOT PUT OUT, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY.

nasb@Matthew:9:21" @ AND IN HIS NAME THE GENTILES WILL HOPE."

nasb@Matthew:9:22 @Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw.

nasb@Matthew:9:23 @All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, "This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?"

nasb@Matthew:9:24 @But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons."

nasb@Matthew:9:25 @And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand.

nasb@Matthew:9:26" @If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

nasb@Matthew:9:27" @If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

nasb@Matthew:9:28" @But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

nasb@Matthew:9:29" @Or how can anyone enter the strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

nasb@Matthew:9:30" @ He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

nasb@Matthew:9:31" @ Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

nasb@Matthew:9:32" @ Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

nasb@Matthew:9:33" @Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

nasb@Matthew:9:34" @ You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

nasb@Matthew:9:35" @ The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil.

nasb@Matthew:9:36" @But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

nasb@Matthew:9:37" @For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

nasb@Matthew:9:38 @Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You."

nasb@Matthew:9:39 @But He answered and said to them, " An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

nasb@Matthew:9:40 @for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

nasb@Matthew:9:41" @ The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

nasb@Matthew:9:42" @ The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

nasb@Matthew:9:43" @Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

nasb@Matthew:9:44" @Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came'; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

nasb@Matthew:9:45" @Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation."

nasb@Matthew:9:46 @While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him.

nasb@Matthew:9:47 @Someone said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You."

nasb@Matthew:9:48 @But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, "Who is My mother and who are My brothers?"

nasb@Matthew:9:49 @And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, "Behold My mother and My brothers!

nasb@Matthew:9:50" @For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother."

nasb@Matthew:10:1 @That day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea.

nasb@Matthew:10:2 @And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.

nasb@Matthew:10:3 @And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow;

nasb@Matthew:10:4 @and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.

nasb@Matthew:10:5" @Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

nasb@Matthew:10:6" @But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

nasb@Matthew:10:7" @Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out.

nasb@Matthew:10:8" @And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.

nasb@Matthew:10:9" @ He who has ears, let him hear."

nasb@Matthew:10:10 @And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"

nasb@Matthew:10:11 @Jesus answered them, " To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

nasb@Matthew:10:12" @ For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

nasb@Matthew:10:13" @Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

nasb@Matthew:10:14" @In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ' YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;

nasb@Matthew:10:15 @FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.'

nasb@Matthew:10:16" @ But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.

nasb@Matthew:10:17" @For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

nasb@Matthew:10:18" @ Hear then the parable of the sower.

nasb@Matthew:10:19" @When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

nasb@Matthew:10:20" @The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

nasb@Matthew:10:21 @yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

nasb@Matthew:10:22" @And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

nasb@Matthew:10:23" @And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty."

nasb@Matthew:10:24 @Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, " The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.

nasb@Matthew:10:25" @But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

nasb@Matthew:10:26" @But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

nasb@Matthew:10:27" @The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'

nasb@Matthew:10:28" @And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' The slaves said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?'

nasb@Matthew:10:29" @But he said, 'No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.

nasb@Matthew:10:30 @'Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

nasb@Matthew:10:31 @He presented another parable to them, saying, " The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

nasb@Matthew:10:32 @and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES."

nasb@Matthew:10:33 @He spoke another parable to them, " The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."

nasb@Matthew:10:34 @All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

nasb@Matthew:10:35 @This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet- " I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES; I WILL UTTER THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD."

nasb@Matthew:10:36 @Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, " Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."

nasb@Matthew:10:37 @And He said, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

nasb@Matthew:10:38 @and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

nasb@Matthew:10:39 @and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

nasb@Matthew:10:40" @So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age.

nasb@Matthew:10:41" @ The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness,

nasb@Matthew:10:42 @and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nasb@Matthew:10:43" @ Then THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

nasb@Matthew:10:44" @ The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

nasb@Matthew:10:45" @Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,

nasb@Matthew:10:46 @and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

nasb@Matthew:10:47" @Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea, and gathering fish of every kind;

nasb@Matthew:10:48 @and when it was filled, they drew it up on the beach; and they sat down and gathered the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw away.

nasb@Matthew:10:49" @So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous,

nasb@Matthew:10:50 @and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nasb@Matthew:10:51" @Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes."

nasb@Matthew:10:52 @And Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old."

nasb@Matthew:10:53 @When Jesus had finished these parables, He departed from there.

nasb@Matthew:10:54 @He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

nasb@Matthew:10:55" @Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

nasb@Matthew:10:56" @And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"

nasb@Matthew:10:57 @And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, " A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household."

nasb@Matthew:10:58 @And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

nasb@Matthew:11:1 @At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the news about Jesus,

nasb@Matthew:11:2 @and said to his servants, " This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him."

nasb@Matthew:11:3 @For when Herod had John arrested, he bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

nasb@Matthew:11:4 @For John had been saying to him, " It is not lawful for you to have her."

nasb@Matthew:11:5 @Although Herod wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, because they regarded John as a prophet.

nasb@Matthew:11:6 @But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

nasb@Matthew:11:7 @so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

nasb@Matthew:11:8 @Having been prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."

nasb@Matthew:11:9 @Although he was grieved, the king commanded it to be given because of his oaths, and because of his dinner guests.

nasb@Matthew:11:10 @He sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

nasb@Matthew:11:11 @And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

nasb@Matthew:11:12 @His disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.

nasb@Matthew:11:13 @Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded place by Himself; and when the people heard of this, they followed Him on foot from the cities.

nasb@Matthew:11:14 @When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.

nasb@Matthew:11:15 @When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, "This place is desolate and the hour is already late; so send the crowds away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

nasb@Matthew:11:16 @But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!"

nasb@Matthew:11:17 @They said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish."

nasb@Matthew:11:18 @And He said, "Bring them here to Me."

nasb@Matthew:11:19 @Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

nasb@Matthew:11:20 @and they all ate and were satisfied. They picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve full baskets.

nasb@Matthew:11:21 @There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.

nasb@Matthew:11:22 @Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the crowds away.

nasb@Matthew:11:23 @After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

nasb@Matthew:11:24 @But the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves; for the wind was contrary.

nasb@Matthew:11:25 @And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.

nasb@Matthew:11:26 @When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out in fear.

nasb@Matthew:11:27 @But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, " Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid."

nasb@Matthew:11:28 @Peter said to Him, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water."

nasb@Matthew:11:29 @And He said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

nasb@Matthew:11:30 @But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, "Lord, save me!"

nasb@Matthew:11:31 @Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, " You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

nasb@Matthew:11:32 @When they got into the boat, the wind stopped.

nasb@Matthew:11:33 @And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, "You are certainly God's Son!"

nasb@Matthew:11:34 @When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

nasb@Matthew:11:35 @And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent word into all that surrounding district and brought to Him all who were sick;

nasb@Matthew:11:36 @and they implored Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were cured.

nasb@Matthew:11:15 @Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

nasb@Matthew:11:2" @Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."

nasb@Matthew:11:3 @And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

nasb@Matthew:11:4" @For God said, ' HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,' and, ' HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.'

nasb@Matthew:11:5" @But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,"

nasb@Matthew:11:6 @he is not to honor his father or his mother.' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

nasb@Matthew:11:7" @You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you-

nasb@Matthew:11:8 @' THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.

nasb@Matthew:11:9 @'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"

nasb@Matthew:11:10 @After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand.

nasb@Matthew:11:11" @ It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

nasb@Matthew:11:12 @Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"

nasb@Matthew:11:13 @But He answered and said, " Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

nasb@Matthew:11:14" @Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

nasb@Matthew:11:15 @Peter said to Him, " Explain the parable to us."

nasb@Matthew:11:16 @Jesus said, "Are you still lacking in understanding also?

nasb@Matthew:11:17" @Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

nasb@Matthew:11:18" @But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

nasb@Matthew:11:19" @ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

nasb@Matthew:11:20" @These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

nasb@Matthew:11:21 @Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.

nasb@Matthew:11:22 @And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed."

nasb@Matthew:11:23 @But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us."

nasb@Matthew:11:24 @But He answered and said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

nasb@Matthew:11:25 @But she came and began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"

nasb@Matthew:11:26 @And He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

nasb@Matthew:11:27 @But she said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

nasb@Matthew:11:28 @Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed at once.

nasb@Matthew:11:29 @Departing from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there.

nasb@Matthew:11:30 @And large crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them.

nasb@Matthew:11:31 @So the crowd marveled as they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

nasb@Matthew:11:32 @And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, " I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."

nasb@Matthew:11:33 @The disciples said to Him, "Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?"

nasb@Matthew:11:34 @And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

nasb@Matthew:11:35 @And He directed the people to sit down on the ground;

nasb@Matthew:11:36 @and He took the seven loaves and the fish; and giving thanks, He broke them and started giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

nasb@Matthew:11:37 @And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full.

nasb@Matthew:11:38 @And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

nasb@Matthew:11:39 @And sending away the crowds, Jesus got into the boat and came to the region of Magadan.

nasb@Matthew:12:1 @The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.

nasb@Matthew:12:2 @But He replied to them, " When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'

nasb@Matthew:12:3" @And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?

nasb@Matthew:12:4" @ An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah." And He left them and went away.

nasb@Matthew:12:5 @And the disciples came to the other side of the sea, but they had forgotten to bring any bread.

nasb@Matthew:12:6 @And Jesus said to them, "Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

nasb@Matthew:12:7 @They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "He said that because we did not bring any bread."

nasb@Matthew:12:8 @But Jesus, aware of this, said, " You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread?

nasb@Matthew:12:9" @Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

nasb@Matthew:12:10" @Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?

nasb@Matthew:12:11" @How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

nasb@Matthew:12:12 @Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

nasb@Matthew:12:13 @Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

nasb@Matthew:12:14 @And they said, "Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."

nasb@Matthew:12:15 @He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

nasb@Matthew:12:16 @Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

nasb@Matthew:12:17 @And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:12:18" @I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

nasb@Matthew:12:19" @I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."

nasb@Matthew:12:20 @Then He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ.

nasb@Matthew:12:21 @From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.

nasb@Matthew:12:22 @Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You."

nasb@Matthew:12:23 @But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's."

nasb@Matthew:12:24 @Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

nasb@Matthew:12:25" @For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

nasb@Matthew:12:26" @For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

nasb@Matthew:12:27" @For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.

nasb@Matthew:12:28" @Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

nasb@Matthew:13:1 @Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.

nasb@Matthew:13:2 @And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.

nasb@Matthew:13:3 @And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

nasb@Matthew:13:4 @Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, I will make three tabernacles here, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

nasb@Matthew:13:5 @While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, " This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!"

nasb@Matthew:13:6 @When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground and were terrified.

nasb@Matthew:13:7 @And Jesus came to them and touched them and said, "Get up, and do not be afraid."

nasb@Matthew:13:8 @And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus Himself alone.

nasb@Matthew:13:9 @As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, " Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."

nasb@Matthew:13:10 @And His disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

nasb@Matthew:13:11 @And He answered and said, "Elijah is coming and will restore all things;

nasb@Matthew:13:12 @but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

nasb@Matthew:13:13 @Then the disciples understood that He had spoken to them about John the Baptist.

nasb@Matthew:13:14 @When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and saying,

nasb@Matthew:13:15" @Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

nasb@Matthew:13:16" @I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not cure him."

nasb@Matthew:13:17 @And Jesus answered and said, "You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me."

nasb@Matthew:13:18 @And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.

nasb@Matthew:13:19 @Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not drive it out?"

nasb@Matthew:13:20 @And He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

nasb@Matthew:13:21 @[" But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."]

nasb@Matthew:13:22 @And while they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men;

nasb@Matthew:13:23 @and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day." And they were deeply grieved.

nasb@Matthew:13:24 @When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?"

nasb@Matthew:13:25 @He said, "Yes." And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?"

nasb@Matthew:13:26 @When Peter said, "From strangers," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are exempt.

nasb@Matthew:13:27" @However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me."

nasb@Matthew:14:1 @At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, " Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

nasb@Matthew:14:2 @And He called a child to Himself and set him before them,

nasb@Matthew:14:3 @and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:14:4" @Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:14:5" @And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;

nasb@Matthew:14:6 @but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

nasb@Matthew:14:7" @Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!

nasb@Matthew:14:8" @ If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

nasb@Matthew:14:9" @ If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

nasb@Matthew:14:10" @See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:14:11 @[" For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]

nasb@Matthew:14:12" @What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

nasb@Matthew:14:13" @If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

nasb@Matthew:14:14" @So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

nasb@Matthew:14:15" @ If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

nasb@Matthew:14:16" @But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.

nasb@Matthew:14:17" @If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

nasb@Matthew:14:18" @Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:14:19" @Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:14:20" @For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

nasb@Matthew:14:21 @Then Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

nasb@Matthew:14:22 @Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

nasb@Matthew:14:23" @For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.

nasb@Matthew:14:24" @When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.

nasb@Matthew:14:25" @But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.

nasb@Matthew:14:26" @So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.'

nasb@Matthew:14:27" @And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.

nasb@Matthew:14:28" @But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe.'

nasb@Matthew:14:29" @So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will repay you.'

nasb@Matthew:14:30" @But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.

nasb@Matthew:14:31" @So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened.

nasb@Matthew:14:32" @Then summoning him, his lord said to him, 'You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.

nasb@Matthew:14:33 @' Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?'

nasb@Matthew:14:34" @And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.

nasb@Matthew:14:35" @ My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart."

nasb@Matthew:15:1 @When Jesus had finished these words, He departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan;

nasb@Matthew:15:2 @and large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

nasb@Matthew:15:3 @Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, " Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?"

nasb@Matthew:15:4 @And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,

nasb@Matthew:15:5 @and said, ' FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'?

nasb@Matthew:15:6" @So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

nasb@Matthew:15:7 @They said to Him, " Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?"

nasb@Matthew:15:8 @He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

nasb@Matthew:15:9" @And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

nasb@Matthew:15:10 @The disciples said to Him, "If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry."

nasb@Matthew:15:11 @But He said to them, " Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.

nasb@Matthew:15:12" @For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."

nasb@Matthew:15:13 @Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

nasb@Matthew:15:14 @But Jesus said, " Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

nasb@Matthew:15:15 @After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.

nasb@Matthew:15:16 @And someone came to Him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?"

nasb@Matthew:15:17 @And He said to him, "Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."

nasb@Matthew:15:18 @Then he said to Him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, " YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS;

nasb@Matthew:15:19 @HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER; and YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

nasb@Matthew:15:20 @The young man said to Him, "All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?"

nasb@Matthew:15:21 @Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."

nasb@Matthew:15:22 @But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.

nasb@Matthew:15:23 @And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

nasb@Matthew:15:24" @Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

nasb@Matthew:15:25 @When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, "Then who can be saved?"

nasb@Matthew:15:26 @And looking at them Jesus said to them, " With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

nasb@Matthew:15:27 @Then Peter said to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?"

nasb@Matthew:15:28 @And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

nasb@Matthew:15:29" @And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

nasb@Matthew:15:30" @ But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.

nasb@Matthew:15:20" @For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

nasb@Matthew:15:2" @When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

nasb@Matthew:15:3" @And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;

nasb@Matthew:15:4 @and to those he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went.

nasb@Matthew:15:5" @Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.

nasb@Matthew:15:6" @And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'

nasb@Matthew:15:7" @They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

nasb@Matthew:15:8" @When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.'

nasb@Matthew:15:9" @When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.

nasb@Matthew:15:10" @When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.

nasb@Matthew:15:11" @When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,

nasb@Matthew:15:12 @saying, 'These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.'

nasb@Matthew:15:13" @But he answered and said to one of them, ' Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

nasb@Matthew:15:14 @'Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.

nasb@Matthew:15:15 @'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'

nasb@Matthew:15:16" @So the last shall be first, and the first last."

nasb@Matthew:15:17 @As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,

nasb@Matthew:15:18" @Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

nasb@Matthew:15:19 @and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up."

nasb@Matthew:15:20 @Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

nasb@Matthew:15:21 @And He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to Him, "Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left."

nasb@Matthew:15:22 @But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to Him, "We are able."

nasb@Matthew:15:23 @He said to them, " My cup you shall drink; but to sit on My right and on My left, this is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father."

nasb@Matthew:15:24 @And hearing this, the ten became indignant with the two brothers.

nasb@Matthew:15:25 @But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

nasb@Matthew:15:26" @It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,

nasb@Matthew:15:27 @and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;

nasb@Matthew:15:28 @just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

nasb@Matthew:15:29 @As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:15:30 @And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

nasb@Matthew:15:31 @The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!"

nasb@Matthew:15:32 @And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, "What do you want Me to do for you?"

nasb@Matthew:15:33 @They said to Him, "Lord, we want our eyes to be opened."

nasb@Matthew:15:34 @Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.

nasb@Matthew:16:1 @When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

nasb@Matthew:16:2 @saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me.

nasb@Matthew:16:3" @If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord has need of them,' and immediately he will send them."

nasb@Matthew:16:4 @This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet-

nasb@Matthew:16:5" @ SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, 'BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, GENTLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A BEAST OF BURDEN.'"

nasb@Matthew:16:6 @The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,

nasb@Matthew:16:7 @and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on the coats.

nasb@Matthew:16:8 @Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

nasb@Matthew:16:9 @The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David; BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest!"

nasb@Matthew:16:10 @When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"

nasb@Matthew:16:11 @And the crowds were saying, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee."

nasb@Matthew:16:12 @And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

nasb@Matthew:16:14 @And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

nasb@Matthew:16:15 @But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

nasb@Matthew:16:16 @and said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, ' OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF'?"

nasb@Matthew:16:17 @And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

nasb@Matthew:16:18 @Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.

nasb@Matthew:16:19 @Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, "No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you." And at once the fig tree withered.

nasb@Matthew:16:20 @Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at once?"

nasb@Matthew:16:21 @And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen.

nasb@Matthew:16:22" @And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

nasb@Matthew:16:23 @When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, "By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?"

nasb@Matthew:16:24 @Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

nasb@Matthew:16:25" @The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?" And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

nasb@Matthew:16:26" @But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the people; for they all regard John as a prophet."

nasb@Matthew:16:27 @And answering Jesus, they said, "We do not know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

nasb@Matthew:16:28" @But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'

nasb@Matthew:16:29" @And he answered, 'I will not'; but afterward he regretted it and went.

nasb@Matthew:16:30" @The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, 'I will, sir'; but he did not go.

nasb@Matthew:16:31" @Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.

nasb@Matthew:16:32" @For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

nasb@Matthew:16:33" @Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

nasb@Matthew:16:34" @When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.

nasb@Matthew:16:35" @The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

nasb@Matthew:16:36" @Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

nasb@Matthew:16:37" @But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

nasb@Matthew:16:38" @But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'

nasb@Matthew:16:39" @They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

nasb@Matthew:16:40" @Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?"

nasb@Matthew:16:41 @They said to Him, "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons."

nasb@Matthew:16:42 @Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, ' THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?

nasb@Matthew:16:43" @Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

nasb@Matthew:16:44" @And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."

nasb@Matthew:16:45 @When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

nasb@Matthew:16:46 @When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.

nasb@Matthew:16:22 @Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

nasb@Matthew:16:2" @ The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

nasb@Matthew:16:3" @And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

nasb@Matthew:16:4" @Again he sent out other slaves saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast."'

nasb@Matthew:16:5" @But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

nasb@Matthew:16:6 @and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.

nasb@Matthew:16:7" @But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

nasb@Matthew:16:8" @Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

nasb@Matthew:16:9 @'Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.'

nasb@Matthew:16:10" @Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.

nasb@Matthew:16:11" @But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,

nasb@Matthew:16:12 @and he said to him, ' Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?' And the man was speechless.

nasb@Matthew:16:13" @Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

nasb@Matthew:16:14" @For many are called, but few are chosen."

nasb@Matthew:16:15 @Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said.

nasb@Matthew:16:16 @And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.

nasb@Matthew:16:17" @Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?"

nasb@Matthew:16:18 @But Jesus perceived their malice, and said, "Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?

nasb@Matthew:16:19" @Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax." And they brought Him a denarius.

nasb@Matthew:16:20 @And He said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?"

nasb@Matthew:16:21 @They said to Him, "Caesar's." Then He said to them, " Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."

nasb@Matthew:16:22 @And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.

nasb@Matthew:16:23 @On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him,

nasb@Matthew:16:24 @asking, "Teacher, Moses said, ' IF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.'

nasb@Matthew:16:25" @Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;

nasb@Matthew:16:26 @so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh.

nasb@Matthew:16:27" @Last of all, the woman died.

nasb@Matthew:16:28" @In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."

nasb@Matthew:16:29 @But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.

nasb@Matthew:16:30" @For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:16:31" @But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God-

nasb@Matthew:16:32 @' I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

nasb@Matthew:16:33 @When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

nasb@Matthew:16:34 @But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

nasb@Matthew:16:35 @One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

nasb@Matthew:16:36" @Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"

nasb@Matthew:16:37 @And He said to him, " ' YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'

nasb@Matthew:16:38" @This is the great and foremost commandment.

nasb@Matthew:16:39" @The second is like it, ' YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'

nasb@Matthew:16:40" @ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

nasb@Matthew:16:41 @Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question-

nasb@Matthew:16:42" @What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?" They said to Him, " The son of David."

nasb@Matthew:16:43 @He said to them, "Then how does David in the Spirit call Him 'Lord,' saying,

nasb@Matthew:16:44 @' THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET"'?

nasb@Matthew:16:45" @If David then calls Him 'Lord,' how is He his son?"

nasb@Matthew:16:46 @No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.

nasb@Matthew:17:1 @Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

nasb@Matthew:17:2 @saying- " The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses;

nasb@Matthew:17:3 @therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.

nasb@Matthew:17:4" @ They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

nasb@Matthew:17:5" @But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.

nasb@Matthew:17:6" @They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,

nasb@Matthew:17:7 @and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men.

nasb@Matthew:17:8" @But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.

nasb@Matthew:17:9" @Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

nasb@Matthew:17:10" @Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ.

nasb@Matthew:17:11" @ But the greatest among you shall be your servant.

nasb@Matthew:17:12" @ Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

nasb@Matthew:17:13" @ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

nasb@Matthew:17:14 @[" Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.]

nasb@Matthew:17:15" @Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

nasb@Matthew:17:16" @Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ' Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.'

nasb@Matthew:17:17" @You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?

nasb@Matthew:17:18" @And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, that is nothing, but whoever swears by the offering on it, he is obligated.'

nasb@Matthew:17:19" @You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?

nasb@Matthew:17:20" @Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears both by the altar and by everything on it.

nasb@Matthew:17:21" @And whoever swears by the temple, swears both by the temple and by Him who dwells within it.

nasb@Matthew:17:22" @And whoever swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

nasb@Matthew:17:23" @ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law- justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

nasb@Matthew:17:24" @You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

nasb@Matthew:17:25" @Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.

nasb@Matthew:17:26" @You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

nasb@Matthew:17:27" @ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

nasb@Matthew:17:28" @So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

nasb@Matthew:17:29" @ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

nasb@Matthew:17:30 @and say, 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

nasb@Matthew:17:31" @So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

nasb@Matthew:17:32" @Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

nasb@Matthew:17:33" @You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

nasb@Matthew:17:34" @ Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

nasb@Matthew:17:35 @so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

nasb@Matthew:17:36" @Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

nasb@Matthew:17:37" @ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

nasb@Matthew:17:38" @Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

nasb@Matthew:17:39" @For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ' BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"

nasb@Matthew:18:1 @Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.

nasb@Matthew:18:2 @And He said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down."

nasb@Matthew:18:3 @As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"

nasb@Matthew:18:4 @And Jesus answered and said to them, " See to it that no one misleads you.

nasb@Matthew:18:5" @For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

nasb@Matthew:18:6" @You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

nasb@Matthew:18:7" @For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.

nasb@Matthew:18:8" @ But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

nasb@Matthew:18:9" @ Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

nasb@Matthew:18:10" @At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.

nasb@Matthew:18:11" @Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.

nasb@Matthew:18:12" @Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.

nasb@Matthew:18:13" @ But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

nasb@Matthew:18:14" @This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

nasb@Matthew:18:15" @Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand),

nasb@Matthew:18:16 @then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

nasb@Matthew:18:17" @Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house.

nasb@Matthew:18:18" @Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

nasb@Matthew:18:19" @But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

nasb@Matthew:18:20" @But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.

nasb@Matthew:18:21" @For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

nasb@Matthew:18:22" @Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

nasb@Matthew:18:23" @ Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him.

nasb@Matthew:18:24" @For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

nasb@Matthew:18:25" @Behold, I have told you in advance.

nasb@Matthew:18:26" @So if they say to you, 'Behold, He is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or, 'Behold, He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe them.

nasb@Matthew:18:27" @ For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

nasb@Matthew:18:28" @ Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

nasb@Matthew:18:29" @But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

nasb@Matthew:18:30" @And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.

nasb@Matthew:18:31" @And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

nasb@Matthew:18:32" @Now learn the parable from the fig tree- when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;

nasb@Matthew:18:33 @so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.

nasb@Matthew:18:34" @Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

nasb@Matthew:18:35" @ Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

nasb@Matthew:18:36" @But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

nasb@Matthew:18:37" @For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

nasb@Matthew:18:38" @For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

nasb@Matthew:18:39 @and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

nasb@Matthew:18:40" @Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.

nasb@Matthew:18:41" @ Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

nasb@Matthew:18:42" @Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

nasb@Matthew:18:43" @But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

nasb@Matthew:18:44" @For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.

nasb@Matthew:18:45" @ Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

nasb@Matthew:18:46" @Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.

nasb@Matthew:18:47" @Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

nasb@Matthew:18:48" @But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,'

nasb@Matthew:18:49 @and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards;

nasb@Matthew:18:50 @the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know,

nasb@Matthew:18:51 @and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nasb@Matthew:18:25" @Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

nasb@Matthew:18:2" @Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.

nasb@Matthew:18:3" @For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

nasb@Matthew:18:4 @but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.

nasb@Matthew:18:5" @Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.

nasb@Matthew:18:6" @But at midnight there was a shout, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'

nasb@Matthew:18:7" @Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.

nasb@Matthew:18:8" @The foolish said to the prudent, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

nasb@Matthew:18:9" @But the prudent answered, 'No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.'

nasb@Matthew:18:10" @And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.

nasb@Matthew:18:11" @Later the other virgins also came, saying, ' Lord, lord, open up for us.'

nasb@Matthew:18:12" @But he answered, 'Truly I say to you, I do not know you.'

nasb@Matthew:18:13" @ Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

nasb@Matthew:18:14" @ For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

nasb@Matthew:18:15" @To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.

nasb@Matthew:18:16" @Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents.

nasb@Matthew:18:17" @In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more.

nasb@Matthew:18:18" @But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

nasb@Matthew:18:19" @Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

nasb@Matthew:18:20" @The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.'

nasb@Matthew:18:21" @His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'

nasb@Matthew:18:22" @Also the one who had received the two talents came up and said, 'Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more talents.'

nasb@Matthew:18:23" @His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'

nasb@Matthew:18:24" @And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.

nasb@Matthew:18:25 @'And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.'

nasb@Matthew:18:26" @But his master answered and said to him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.

nasb@Matthew:18:27 @'Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.

nasb@Matthew:18:28 @'Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.'

nasb@Matthew:18:29" @ For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

nasb@Matthew:18:30" @Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

nasb@Matthew:18:31" @But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.

nasb@Matthew:18:32" @All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

nasb@Matthew:18:33 @and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

nasb@Matthew:18:34" @Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

nasb@Matthew:18:35 @'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;

nasb@Matthew:18:36 @naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'

nasb@Matthew:18:37" @Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

nasb@Matthew:18:38 @'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?

nasb@Matthew:18:39 @'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'

nasb@Matthew:18:40" @ The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'

nasb@Matthew:18:41" @Then He will also say to those on His left, ' Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

nasb@Matthew:18:42 @for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

nasb@Matthew:18:43 @I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.'

nasb@Matthew:18:44" @Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'

nasb@Matthew:18:45" @Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'

nasb@Matthew:18:46" @These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

nasb@Matthew:18:26 @When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,

nasb@Matthew:18:2" @ You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion."

nasb@Matthew:18:3 @Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas;

nasb@Matthew:18:4 @and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.

nasb@Matthew:18:5 @But they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people."

nasb@Matthew:18:6 @Now when Jesus was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper,

nasb@Matthew:18:7 @a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

nasb@Matthew:18:8 @But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, "Why this waste?

nasb@Matthew:18:9" @For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor."

nasb@Matthew:18:10 @But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me.

nasb@Matthew:18:11" @For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have Me.

nasb@Matthew:18:12" @For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

nasb@Matthew:18:13" @Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

nasb@Matthew:18:14 @Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

nasb@Matthew:18:15 @and said, "What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?" And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

nasb@Matthew:18:16 @From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

nasb@Matthew:18:17 @Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

nasb@Matthew:18:18 @And He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, " My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."'"

nasb@Matthew:18:19 @The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

nasb@Matthew:18:20 @Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

nasb@Matthew:18:21 @As they were eating, He said, " Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me."

nasb@Matthew:18:22 @Being deeply grieved, they each one began to say to Him, "Surely not I, Lord?"

nasb@Matthew:18:23 @And He answered, " He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me.

nasb@Matthew:18:24" @The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."

nasb@Matthew:18:25 @And Judas, who was betraying Him, said, "Surely it is not I, Rabbi?" Jesus said to him, " You have said it yourself."

nasb@Matthew:18:26 @While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."

nasb@Matthew:18:27 @And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you;

nasb@Matthew:18:28 @for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

nasb@Matthew:18:29" @But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."

nasb@Matthew:18:30 @After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

nasb@Matthew:18:31 @Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ' I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED.'

nasb@Matthew:18:32" @But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee."

nasb@Matthew:18:33 @But Peter said to Him, "Even though all may fall away because of You, I will never fall away."

nasb@Matthew:18:34 @Jesus said to him, " Truly I say to you that this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."

nasb@Matthew:18:35 @Peter said to Him, " Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You." All the disciples said the same thing too.

nasb@Matthew:18:36 @Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."

nasb@Matthew:18:37 @And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

nasb@Matthew:18:38 @Then He said to them, " My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me."

nasb@Matthew:18:39 @And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will."

nasb@Matthew:18:40 @And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?

nasb@Matthew:18:41" @ Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

nasb@Matthew:18:42 @He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done."

nasb@Matthew:18:43 @Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

nasb@Matthew:18:44 @And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

nasb@Matthew:18:45 @Then He came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

nasb@Matthew:18:46" @Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!"

nasb@Matthew:18:47 @While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

nasb@Matthew:18:48 @Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him."

nasb@Matthew:18:49 @Immediately Judas went to Jesus and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.

nasb@Matthew:18:50 @And Jesus said to him, " Friend, do what you have come for." Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and seized Him.

nasb@Matthew:18:51 @And behold, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew out his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

nasb@Matthew:18:52 @Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.

nasb@Matthew:18:53" @Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

nasb@Matthew:18:54" @How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?"

nasb@Matthew:18:55 @At that time Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would against a robber? Every day I used to sit in the temple teaching and you did not seize Me.

nasb@Matthew:18:56" @But all this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures of the prophets." Then all the disciples left Him and fled.

nasb@Matthew:18:57 @Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

nasb@Matthew:18:58 @But Peter was following Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and entered in, and sat down with the officers to see the outcome.

nasb@Matthew:18:59 @Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

nasb@Matthew:18:60 @They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,

nasb@Matthew:18:61 @and said, "This man stated, ' I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.'"

nasb@Matthew:18:62 @The high priest stood up and said to Him, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?"

nasb@Matthew:18:63 @But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God."

nasb@Matthew:18:64 @Jesus said to him, " You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."

nasb@Matthew:18:65 @Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the blasphemy;

nasb@Matthew:18:66 @what do you think?" They answered, " He deserves death!"

nasb@Matthew:18:67 @Then they spat in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him,

nasb@Matthew:18:68 @and said, " Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one who hit You?"

nasb@Matthew:18:69 @Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilean."

nasb@Matthew:18:70 @But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about."

nasb@Matthew:18:71 @When he had gone out to the gateway, another servant-girl saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth."

nasb@Matthew:18:72 @And again he denied it with an oath, "I do not know the man."

nasb@Matthew:18:73 @A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Surely you too are one of them; for even the way you talk gives you away."

nasb@Matthew:18:74 @Then he began to curse and swear, "I do not know the man!" And immediately a rooster crowed.

nasb@Matthew:18:75 @And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, " Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.

nasb@Matthew:19:1 @Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;

nasb@Matthew:19:2 @and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.

nasb@Matthew:19:3 @Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

nasb@Matthew:19:4 @saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? See to that yourself!"

nasb@Matthew:19:5 @And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

nasb@Matthew:19:6 @The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood."

nasb@Matthew:19:7 @And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.

nasb@Matthew:19:8 @For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

nasb@Matthew:19:9 @Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled- " AND THEY TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, THE PRICE OF THE ONE WHOSE PRICE HAD BEEN SET by the sons of Israel;

nasb@Matthew:19:10 @AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

nasb@Matthew:19:11 @Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And Jesus said to him, " It is as you say."

nasb@Matthew:19:12 @And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not answer.

nasb@Matthew:19:13 @Then Pilate said to Him, "Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?"

nasb@Matthew:19:14 @And He did not answer him with regard to even a single charge, so the governor was quite amazed.

nasb@Matthew:19:15 @Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the people any one prisoner whom they wanted.

nasb@Matthew:19:16 @At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.

nasb@Matthew:19:17 @So when the people gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"

nasb@Matthew:19:18 @For he knew that because of envy they had handed Him over.

nasb@Matthew:19:19 @While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him."

nasb@Matthew:19:20 @But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

nasb@Matthew:19:21 @But the governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas."

nasb@Matthew:19:22 @Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Crucify Him!"

nasb@Matthew:19:23 @And he said, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they kept shouting all the more, saying, "Crucify Him!"

nasb@Matthew:19:24 @When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see to that yourselves."

nasb@Matthew:19:25 @And all the people said, " His blood shall be on us and on our children!"

nasb@Matthew:19:26 @Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified.

nasb@Matthew:19:27 @Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him.

nasb@Matthew:19:28 @They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

nasb@Matthew:19:29 @And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, " Hail, King of the Jews!"

nasb@Matthew:19:30 @They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head.

nasb@Matthew:19:31 @After they had mocked Him, they took the scarlet robe off Him and put His own garments back on Him, and led Him away to crucify Him.

nasb@Matthew:19:32 @As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.

nasb@Matthew:19:33 @And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a Skull,

nasb@Matthew:19:34 @they gave Him wine to drink mixed with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink.

nasb@Matthew:19:35 @And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots.

nasb@Matthew:19:36 @And sitting down, they began to keep watch over Him there.

nasb@Matthew:19:37 @And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, " THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

nasb@Matthew:19:38 @At that time two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left.

nasb@Matthew:19:39 @And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads

nasb@Matthew:19:40 @and saying, " You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

nasb@Matthew:19:41 @In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,

nasb@Matthew:19:42" @ He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

nasb@Matthew:19:43" @ HE TRUSTS IN GOD; LET GOD RESCUE Him now, IF HE DELIGHTS IN HIM; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

nasb@Matthew:19:44 @The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.

nasb@Matthew:19:45 @Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

nasb@Matthew:19:46 @About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, " ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"

nasb@Matthew:19:47 @And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, began saying, "This man is calling for Elijah."

nasb@Matthew:19:48 @Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.

nasb@Matthew:19:49 @But the rest of them said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him."

nasb@Matthew:19:50 @And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.

nasb@Matthew:19:51 @And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

nasb@Matthew:19:52 @The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

nasb@Matthew:19:53 @and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.

nasb@Matthew:19:54 @Now the centurion, and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became very frightened and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

nasb@Matthew:19:55 @Many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ministering to Him.

nasb@Matthew:19:56 @Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

nasb@Matthew:19:57 @When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

nasb@Matthew:19:58 @This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

nasb@Matthew:19:59 @And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

nasb@Matthew:19:60 @and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.

nasb@Matthew:19:61 @And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave.

nasb@Matthew:19:62 @Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate,

nasb@Matthew:19:63 @and said, "Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ' After three days I am to rise again.'

nasb@Matthew:19:64" @Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

nasb@Matthew:19:65 @Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you know how."

nasb@Matthew:19:66 @And they went and made the grave secure, and along with the guard they set a seal on the stone.

nasb@Matthew:20:1 @Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.

nasb@Matthew:20:2 @And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.

nasb@Matthew:20:3 @And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.

nasb@Matthew:20:4 @The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men.

nasb@Matthew:20:5 @The angel said to the women, " Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified.

nasb@Matthew:20:6" @He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.

nasb@Matthew:20:7" @Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you."

nasb@Matthew:20:8 @And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy and ran to report it to His disciples.

nasb@Matthew:20:9 @And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him.

nasb@Matthew:20:10 @Then Jesus said to them, " Do not be afraid; go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee, and there they will see Me."

nasb@Matthew:20:11 @Now while they were on their way, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.

nasb@Matthew:20:12 @And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

nasb@Matthew:20:13 @and said, "You are to say, 'His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.'

nasb@Matthew:20:14" @And if this should come to the governor's ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble."

nasb@Matthew:20:15 @And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

nasb@Matthew:20:16 @But the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated.

nasb@Matthew:20:17 @When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some were doubtful.

nasb@Matthew:20:18 @And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, " All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

nasb@Matthew:20:19" @ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

nasb@Matthew:20:20 @teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

nasb@Mark:1:1 @The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

nasb@Mark:1:2 @As it is written in Isaiah the prophet- " BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY;

nasb@Mark:1:3 @THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.'"

nasb@Mark:1:4 @John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

nasb@Mark:1:5 @And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

nasb@Mark:1:6 @John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

nasb@Mark:1:7 @And he was preaching, and saying, "After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.

nasb@Mark:1:8" @I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

nasb@Mark:1:9 @In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

nasb@Mark:1:10 @Immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him;

nasb@Mark:1:11 @and a voice came out of the heavens- " You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased."

nasb@Mark:1:12 @Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness.

nasb@Mark:1:13 @And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministering to Him.

nasb@Mark:1:14 @Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

nasb@Mark:1:15 @and saying, " The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

nasb@Mark:1:16 @As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.

nasb@Mark:1:17 @And Jesus said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men."

nasb@Mark:1:18 @Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

nasb@Mark:1:19 @Going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

nasb@Mark:1:20 @Immediately He called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went away to follow Him.

nasb@Mark:1:21 @They went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and began to teach.

nasb@Mark:1:22 @They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

nasb@Mark:1:23 @Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

nasb@Mark:1:24 @saying, " What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-- the Holy One of God!"

nasb@Mark:1:25 @And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

nasb@Mark:1:26 @Throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

nasb@Mark:1:27 @They were all amazed, so that they debated among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him."

nasb@Mark:1:28 @Immediately the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of Galilee.

nasb@Mark:1:29 @And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

nasb@Mark:1:30 @Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they spoke to Jesus about her.

nasb@Mark:1:31 @And He came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on them.

nasb@Mark:1:32 @When evening came, after the sun had set, they began bringing to Him all who were ill and those who were demon-possessed.

nasb@Mark:1:33 @And the whole city had gathered at the door.

nasb@Mark:1:34 @And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

nasb@Mark:1:35 @In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

nasb@Mark:1:36 @Simon and his companions searched for Him;

nasb@Mark:1:37 @they found Him, and said to Him, "Everyone is looking for You."

nasb@Mark:1:38 @He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for."

nasb@Mark:1:39 @And He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out the demons.

nasb@Mark:1:40 @And a leper came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, "If You are willing, You can make me clean."

nasb@Mark:1:41 @Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed."

nasb@Mark:1:42 @Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

nasb@Mark:1:43 @And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,

nasb@Mark:1:44 @and He said to him, " See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

nasb@Mark:1:45 @But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

nasb@Mark:2:1 @When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

nasb@Mark:2:2 @And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.

nasb@Mark:2:3 @And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men.

nasb@Mark:2:4 @Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

nasb@Mark:2:5 @And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, " Son, your sins are forgiven."

nasb@Mark:2:6 @But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

nasb@Mark:2:7" @Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"

nasb@Mark:2:8 @Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them, "Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

nasb@Mark:2:9" @Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven'; or to say, 'Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk'?

nasb@Mark:2:10" @But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--He said to the paralytic,

nasb@Mark:2:11" @I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home."

nasb@Mark:2:12 @And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, " We have never seen anything like this."

nasb@Mark:2:13 @And He went out again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.

nasb@Mark:2:14 @As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, " Follow Me!" And he got up and followed Him.

nasb@Mark:2:15 @And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

nasb@Mark:2:16 @When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, " Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?"

nasb@Mark:2:17 @And hearing this, Jesus said to them, " It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

nasb@Mark:2:18 @John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

nasb@Mark:2:19 @And Jesus said to them, "While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

nasb@Mark:2:20" @But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

nasb@Mark:2:21" @No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

nasb@Mark:2:22" @No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

nasb@Mark:2:23 @And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

nasb@Mark:2:24 @The Pharisees were saying to Him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"

nasb@Mark:2:25 @And He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

nasb@Mark:2:26 @how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?"

nasb@Mark:2:27 @Jesus said to them, " The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

nasb@Mark:2:28" @So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

nasb@Mark:3:1 @He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

nasb@Mark:3:2 @They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

nasb@Mark:3:3 @He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!"

nasb@Mark:3:4 @And He said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?" But they kept silent.

nasb@Mark:3:5 @After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

nasb@Mark:3:6 @The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

nasb@Mark:3:7 @Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and also from Judea,

nasb@Mark:3:8 @and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

nasb@Mark:3:9 @And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

nasb@Mark:3:10 @for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.

nasb@Mark:3:11 @Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"

nasb@Mark:3:12 @And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

nasb@Mark:3:13 @And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.

nasb@Mark:3:14 @And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

nasb@Mark:3:15 @and to have authority to cast out the demons.

nasb@Mark:3:16 @And He appointed the twelve- Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter),

nasb@Mark:3:17 @and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, "Sons of Thunder");

nasb@Mark:3:18 @and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

nasb@Mark:3:19 @and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

nasb@Mark:3:20 @And He came home, and the crowd gathered again, to such an extent that they could not even eat a meal.

nasb@Mark:3:21 @When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, " He has lost His senses."

nasb@Mark:3:22 @The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and " He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons."

nasb@Mark:3:23 @And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

nasb@Mark:3:24" @If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

nasb@Mark:3:25" @If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

nasb@Mark:3:26" @If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!

nasb@Mark:3:27" @ But no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

nasb@Mark:3:28" @ Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

nasb@Mark:3:29 @but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--

nasb@Mark:3:30 @because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

nasb@Mark:3:31 @Then His mother and His brothers arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

nasb@Mark:3:32 @A crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You."

nasb@Mark:3:33 @Answering them, He said, "Who are My mother and My brothers?"

nasb@Mark:3:34 @Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He said, " Behold My mother and My brothers!

nasb@Mark:3:35" @For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother."

nasb@Mark:4:1 @He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

nasb@Mark:4:2 @And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

nasb@Mark:4:3" @Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

nasb@Mark:4:4 @as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

nasb@Mark:4:5" @Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

nasb@Mark:4:6" @And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

nasb@Mark:4:7" @Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

nasb@Mark:4:8" @Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

nasb@Mark:4:9 @And He was saying, " He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Mark:4:10 @As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

nasb@Mark:4:11 @And He was saying to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

nasb@Mark:4:12 @so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN."

nasb@Mark:4:13 @And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

nasb@Mark:4:14" @The sower sows the word.

nasb@Mark:4:15" @These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

nasb@Mark:4:16" @In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

nasb@Mark:4:17 @and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

nasb@Mark:4:18" @And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

nasb@Mark:4:19 @but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

nasb@Mark:4:20" @And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

nasb@Mark:4:21 @And He was saying to them, " A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

nasb@Mark:4:22" @ For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

nasb@Mark:4:23" @ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Mark:4:24 @And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.

nasb@Mark:4:25" @ For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."

nasb@Mark:4:26 @And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

nasb@Mark:4:27 @and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.

nasb@Mark:4:28" @The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

nasb@Mark:4:29" @But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

nasb@Mark:4:30 @And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

nasb@Mark:4:31" @It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

nasb@Mark:4:32 @yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."

nasb@Mark:4:33 @With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

nasb@Mark:4:34 @and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

nasb@Mark:4:35 @On that day, when evening came, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."

nasb@Mark:4:36 @Leaving the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.

nasb@Mark:4:37 @And there arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.

nasb@Mark:4:38 @Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"

nasb@Mark:4:39 @And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

nasb@Mark:4:40 @And He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"

nasb@Mark:4:41 @They became very much afraid and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey HimNULL"

nasb@Mark:5:1 @They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

nasb@Mark:5:2 @When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him,

nasb@Mark:5:3 @and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;

nasb@Mark:5:4 @because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

nasb@Mark:5:5 @Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.

nasb@Mark:5:6 @Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him;

nasb@Mark:5:7 @and shouting with a loud voice, he said, " What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!"

nasb@Mark:5:8 @For He had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

nasb@Mark:5:9 @And He was asking him, "What is your name?" And he said to Him, "My name is Legion; for we are many."

nasb@Mark:5:10 @And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

nasb@Mark:5:11 @Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain.

nasb@Mark:5:12 @The demons implored Him, saying, "Send us into the swine so that we may enter them."

nasb@Mark:5:13 @Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.

nasb@Mark:5:14 @Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.

nasb@Mark:5:15 @They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the " legion"; and they became frightened.

nasb@Mark:5:16 @Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

nasb@Mark:5:17 @And they began to implore Him to leave their region.

nasb@Mark:5:18 @As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.

nasb@Mark:5:19 @And He did not let him, but He said to him, " Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you."

nasb@Mark:5:20 @And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

nasb@Mark:5:21 @When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore.

nasb@Mark:5:22 @One of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up, and on seeing Him, fell at His feet

nasb@Mark:5:23 @and implored Him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live."

nasb@Mark:5:24 @And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

nasb@Mark:5:25 @A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

nasb@Mark:5:26 @and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse--

nasb@Mark:5:27 @after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

nasb@Mark:5:28 @For she thought, "If I just touch His garments, I will get well."

nasb@Mark:5:29 @Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

nasb@Mark:5:30 @Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My garments?"

nasb@Mark:5:31 @And His disciples said to Him, "You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, 'Who touched Me?'"

nasb@Mark:5:32 @And He looked around to see the woman who had done this.

nasb@Mark:5:33 @But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

nasb@Mark:5:34 @And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction."

nasb@Mark:5:35 @While He was still speaking, they came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, "Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?"

nasb@Mark:5:36 @But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official, " Do not be afraid any longer, only believe."

nasb@Mark:5:37 @And He allowed no one to accompany Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

nasb@Mark:5:38 @They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.

nasb@Mark:5:39 @And entering in, He said to them, "Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep."

nasb@Mark:5:40 @They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He took along the child's father and mother and His own companions, and entered the room where the child was.

nasb@Mark:5:41 @Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, "Talitha kum!" (which translated means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!").

nasb@Mark:5:42 @Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded.

nasb@Mark:5:43 @And He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this, and He said that something should be given her to eat.

nasb@Mark:6:1 @Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him.

nasb@Mark:6:2 @When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

nasb@Mark:6:3" @Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?" And they took offense at Him.

nasb@Mark:6:4 @Jesus said to them, " A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household."

nasb@Mark:6:5 @And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

nasb@Mark:6:6 @And He wondered at their unbelief. And He was going around the villages teaching.

nasb@Mark:6:7 @And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

nasb@Mark:6:8 @and He instructed them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a mere staff--no bread, no bag, no money in their belt--

nasb@Mark:6:9 @but to wear sandals; and He added, "Do not put on two tunics."

nasb@Mark:6:10 @And He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.

nasb@Mark:6:11" @Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them."

nasb@Mark:6:12 @They went out and preached that men should repent.

nasb@Mark:6:13 @And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.

nasb@Mark:6:14 @And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, " John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him."

nasb@Mark:6:15 @But others were saying, "He is Elijah." And others were saying, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old."

nasb@Mark:6:16 @But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen!"

nasb@Mark:6:17 @For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

nasb@Mark:6:18 @For John had been saying to Herod, " It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

nasb@Mark:6:19 @Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so;

nasb@Mark:6:20 @for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him.

nasb@Mark:6:21 @A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

nasb@Mark:6:22 @and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you."

nasb@Mark:6:23 @And he swore to her, "Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you; up to half of my kingdom."

nasb@Mark:6:24 @And she went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist."

nasb@Mark:6:25 @Immediately she came in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

nasb@Mark:6:26 @And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

nasb@Mark:6:27 @Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

nasb@Mark:6:28 @and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

nasb@Mark:6:29 @When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

nasb@Mark:6:30 @The apostles gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

nasb@Mark:6:31 @And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while." (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.)

nasb@Mark:6:32 @They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.

nasb@Mark:6:33 @The people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them.

nasb@Mark:6:34 @When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

nasb@Mark:6:35 @When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said, "This place is desolate and it is already quite late;

nasb@Mark:6:36 @send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

nasb@Mark:6:37 @But He answered them, "You give them something to eat!" And they said to Him, "Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii on bread and give them something to eat?"

nasb@Mark:6:38 @And He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go look!" And when they found out, they said, "Five, and two fish."

nasb@Mark:6:39 @And He commanded them all to sit down by groups on the green grass.

nasb@Mark:6:40 @They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.

nasb@Mark:6:41 @And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all.

nasb@Mark:6:42 @They all ate and were satisfied,

nasb@Mark:6:43 @and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish.

nasb@Mark:6:44 @There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

nasb@Mark:6:45 @Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away.

nasb@Mark:6:46 @After bidding them farewell, He left for the mountain to pray.

nasb@Mark:6:47 @When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.

nasb@Mark:6:48 @Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them.

nasb@Mark:6:49 @But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

nasb@Mark:6:50 @for they all saw Him and were terrified. But immediately He spoke with them and said to them, " Take courage; it is I, do not be afraid."

nasb@Mark:6:51 @Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped; and they were utterly astonished,

nasb@Mark:6:52 @for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

nasb@Mark:6:53 @When they had crossed over they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.

nasb@Mark:6:54 @When they got out of the boat, immediately the people recognized Him,

nasb@Mark:6:55 @and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to the place they heard He was.

nasb@Mark:6:56 @Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.

nasb@Mark:7:1 @The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,

nasb@Mark:7:2 @and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

nasb@Mark:7:3 @(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

nasb@Mark:7:4 @and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

nasb@Mark:7:5 @The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?"

nasb@Mark:7:6 @And He said to them, "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written- ' THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.

nasb@Mark:7:7 @' BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'

nasb@Mark:7:8" @Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."

nasb@Mark:7:9 @He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

nasb@Mark:7:10" @For Moses said, ' HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER'; and, ' HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH';

nasb@Mark:7:11 @but you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),'

nasb@Mark:7:12 @you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;

nasb@Mark:7:13 @thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that."

nasb@Mark:7:14 @After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand-

nasb@Mark:7:15 @there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

nasb@Mark:7:16 @[" If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."]

nasb@Mark:7:17 @When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

nasb@Mark:7:18 @And He said to them, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

nasb@Mark:7:19 @because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)

nasb@Mark:7:20 @And He was saying, " That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

nasb@Mark:7:21" @For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

nasb@Mark:7:22 @deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

nasb@Mark:7:23" @All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."

nasb@Mark:7:24 @Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

nasb@Mark:7:25 @But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet.

nasb@Mark:7:26 @Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

nasb@Mark:7:27 @And He was saying to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

nasb@Mark:7:28 @But she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs."

nasb@Mark:7:29 @And He said to her, "Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

nasb@Mark:7:30 @And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.

nasb@Mark:7:31 @Again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of Decapolis.

nasb@Mark:7:32 @They brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they implored Him to lay His hand on him.

nasb@Mark:7:33 @Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva;

nasb@Mark:7:34 @and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!"

nasb@Mark:7:35 @And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.

nasb@Mark:7:36 @And He gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it.

nasb@Mark:7:37 @They were utterly astonished, saying, "He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

nasb@Mark:7:8 @In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and said to them,

nasb@Mark:7:2" @ I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat.

nasb@Mark:7:3" @If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance."

nasb@Mark:7:4 @And His disciples answered Him, "Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

nasb@Mark:7:5 @And He was asking them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven."

nasb@Mark:7:6 @And He directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to serve to them, and they served them to the people.

nasb@Mark:7:7 @They also had a few small fish; and after He had blessed them, He ordered these to be served as well.

nasb@Mark:7:8 @And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces.

nasb@Mark:7:9 @About four thousand were there; and He sent them away.

nasb@Mark:7:10 @And immediately He entered the boat with His disciples and came to the district of Dalmanutha.

nasb@Mark:7:11 @The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him.

nasb@Mark:7:12 @Sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, "Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation."

nasb@Mark:7:13 @Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.

nasb@Mark:7:14 @And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

nasb@Mark:7:15 @And He was giving orders to them, saying, " Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

nasb@Mark:7:16 @They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

nasb@Mark:7:17 @And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

nasb@Mark:7:18" @ HAVING EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE? AND HAVING EARS, DO YOU NOT HEAR? And do you not remember,

nasb@Mark:7:19 @when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

nasb@Mark:7:20" @When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?" And they said to Him, "Seven."

nasb@Mark:7:21 @And He was saying to them, " Do you not yet understand?"

nasb@Mark:7:22 @And they came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Jesus and implored Him to touch him.

nasb@Mark:7:23 @Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, "Do you see anything?"

nasb@Mark:7:24 @And he looked up and said, "I see men, for I see them like trees, walking around."

nasb@Mark:7:25 @Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

nasb@Mark:7:26 @And He sent him to his home, saying, "Do not even enter the village."

nasb@Mark:7:27 @Jesus went out, along with His disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

nasb@Mark:7:28 @They told Him, saying, "John the Baptist; and others say Elijah; but others, one of the prophets."

nasb@Mark:7:29 @And He continued by questioning them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."

nasb@Mark:7:30 @And He warned them to tell no one about Him.

nasb@Mark:7:31 @And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

nasb@Mark:7:32 @And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

nasb@Mark:7:33 @But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's."

nasb@Mark:7:34 @And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

nasb@Mark:7:35" @For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

nasb@Mark:7:36" @For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

nasb@Mark:7:37" @For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

nasb@Mark:7:38" @For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

nasb@Mark:8:1 @And Jesus was saying to them, " Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power."

nasb@Mark:8:2 @Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;

nasb@Mark:8:3 @and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

nasb@Mark:8:4 @Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.

nasb@Mark:8:5 @Peter said to Jesus, " Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

nasb@Mark:8:6 @For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.

nasb@Mark:8:7 @Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, " This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!"

nasb@Mark:8:8 @All at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

nasb@Mark:8:9 @As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead.

nasb@Mark:8:10 @They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant.

nasb@Mark:8:11 @They asked Him, saying, "Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

nasb@Mark:8:12 @And He said to them, "Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

nasb@Mark:8:13" @But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him."

nasb@Mark:8:14 @When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.

nasb@Mark:8:15 @Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.

nasb@Mark:8:16 @And He asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"

nasb@Mark:8:17 @And one of the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute;

nasb@Mark:8:18 @and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it."

nasb@Mark:8:19 @And He answered them and said, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!"

nasb@Mark:8:20 @They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

nasb@Mark:8:21 @And He asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.

nasb@Mark:8:22" @It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!"

nasb@Mark:8:23 @And Jesus said to him, " 'If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes."

nasb@Mark:8:24 @Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief."

nasb@Mark:8:25 @When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again."

nasb@Mark:8:26 @After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"

nasb@Mark:8:27 @But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.

nasb@Mark:8:28 @When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, "Why could we not drive it out?"

nasb@Mark:8:29 @And He said to them, "This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer."

nasb@Mark:8:30 @From there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.

nasb@Mark:8:31 @For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, " The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later."

nasb@Mark:8:32 @But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

nasb@Mark:8:33 @They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?"

nasb@Mark:8:34 @But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.

nasb@Mark:8:35 @Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, " If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."

nasb@Mark:8:36 @Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,

nasb@Mark:8:37" @ Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me."

nasb@Mark:8:38 @John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us."

nasb@Mark:8:39 @But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

nasb@Mark:8:40" @ For he who is not against us is for us.

nasb@Mark:8:41" @For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

nasb@Mark:8:42" @ Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

nasb@Mark:8:43" @ If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

nasb@Mark:8:44 @[ where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.]

nasb@Mark:8:45" @If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell,

nasb@Mark:8:46 @[ where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.]

nasb@Mark:8:47" @ If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell,

nasb@Mark:8:48 @where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.

nasb@Mark:8:49" @For everyone will be salted with fire.

nasb@Mark:8:50" @Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty againNULL Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

nasb@Mark:9:1 @Getting up, He went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

nasb@Mark:9:2 @Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.

nasb@Mark:9:3 @And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"

nasb@Mark:9:4 @They said, " Moses permitted a man TO WRITE A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY."

nasb@Mark:9:5 @But Jesus said to them, " Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

nasb@Mark:9:6" @But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.

nasb@Mark:9:7" @ FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,

nasb@Mark:9:8 @AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

nasb@Mark:9:9" @What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

nasb@Mark:9:10 @In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again.

nasb@Mark:9:11 @And He said to them, " Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

nasb@Mark:9:12 @and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery."

nasb@Mark:9:13 @And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.

nasb@Mark:9:14 @But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, "Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

nasb@Mark:9:15" @Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."

nasb@Mark:9:16 @And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.

nasb@Mark:9:17 @As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

nasb@Mark:9:18 @And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

nasb@Mark:9:19" @You know the commandments, ' DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.'"

nasb@Mark:9:20 @And he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up."

nasb@Mark:9:21 @Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, "One thing you lack- go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."

nasb@Mark:9:22 @But at these words he was saddened, and he went away grieving, for he was one who owned much property.

nasb@Mark:9:23 @And Jesus, looking around, said to His disciples, " How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

nasb@Mark:9:24 @The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

nasb@Mark:9:25" @ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

nasb@Mark:9:26 @They were even more astonished and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?"

nasb@Mark:9:27 @Looking at them, Jesus said, " With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God."

nasb@Mark:9:28 @Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You."

nasb@Mark:9:29 @Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake,

nasb@Mark:9:30 @but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

nasb@Mark:9:31" @But many who are first will be last, and the last, first."

nasb@Mark:9:32 @They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking on ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were fearful. And again He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him,

nasb@Mark:9:33 @saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles.

nasb@Mark:9:34" @They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again."

nasb@Mark:9:35 @James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You."

nasb@Mark:9:36 @And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?"

nasb@Mark:9:37 @They said to Him, "Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory."

nasb@Mark:9:38 @But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"

nasb@Mark:9:39 @They said to Him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you shall drink; and you shall be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized.

nasb@Mark:9:40" @But to sit on My right or on My left, this is not Mine to give; but it is for those for whom it has been prepared."

nasb@Mark:9:41 @Hearing this, the ten began to feel indignant with James and John.

nasb@Mark:9:42 @Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them.

nasb@Mark:9:43" @But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant;

nasb@Mark:9:44 @and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.

nasb@Mark:9:45" @For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

nasb@Mark:9:46 @Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.

nasb@Mark:9:47 @When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

nasb@Mark:9:48 @Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, " Son of David, have mercy on me!"

nasb@Mark:9:49 @And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." So they called the blind man, saying to him, " Take courage, stand up! He is calling for you."

nasb@Mark:9:50 @Throwing aside his cloak, he jumped up and came to Jesus.

nasb@Mark:9:51 @And answering him, Jesus said, "What do you want Me to do for you?" And the blind man said to Him, " Rabboni, I want to regain my sight!"

nasb@Mark:9:52 @And Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him on the road.

nasb@Mark:10:1 @As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples,

nasb@Mark:10:2 @and said to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

nasb@Mark:10:3" @If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' you say, 'The Lord has need of it'; and immediately he will send it back here."

nasb@Mark:10:4 @They went away and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street; and they untied it.

nasb@Mark:10:5 @Some of the bystanders were saying to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

nasb@Mark:10:6 @They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission.

nasb@Mark:10:7 @They brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it; and He sat on it.

nasb@Mark:10:8 @And many spread their coats in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

nasb@Mark:10:9 @Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting- "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;

nasb@Mark:10:10 @Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!"

nasb@Mark:10:11 @Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

nasb@Mark:10:12 @On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.

nasb@Mark:10:13 @Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

nasb@Mark:10:14 @He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" And His disciples were listening.

nasb@Mark:10:15 @Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;

nasb@Mark:10:16 @and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple.

nasb@Mark:10:18 @The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

nasb@Mark:10:19 @When evening came, they would go out of the city.

nasb@Mark:10:20 @As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

nasb@Mark:10:21 @Being reminded, Peter said to Him, " Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered."

nasb@Mark:10:22 @And Jesus answered saying to them, " Have faith in God.

nasb@Mark:10:23" @ Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.

nasb@Mark:10:24" @Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.

nasb@Mark:10:25" @Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.

nasb@Mark:10:26 @[" But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions."]

nasb@Mark:10:27 @They came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him,

nasb@Mark:10:28 @and began saying to Him, "By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?"

nasb@Mark:10:29 @And Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question, and you answer Me, and then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

nasb@Mark:10:30" @Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer Me."

nasb@Mark:10:31 @They began reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

nasb@Mark:10:32" @But shall we say, 'From men'?"--they were afraid of the people, for everyone considered John to have been a real prophet.

nasb@Mark:10:33 @Answering Jesus, they said, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

nasb@Mark:10:12 @And He began to speak to them in parables- " A man PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

nasb@Mark:10:2" @At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

nasb@Mark:10:3" @They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

nasb@Mark:10:4" @Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

nasb@Mark:10:5" @And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

nasb@Mark:10:6" @He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

nasb@Mark:10:7" @But those vine-growers said to one another, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

nasb@Mark:10:8" @They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

nasb@Mark:10:9" @What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.

nasb@Mark:10:10" @Have you not even read this Scripture- ' THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;

nasb@Mark:10:11 @THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?"

nasb@Mark:10:12 @And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

nasb@Mark:10:13 @Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him in order to trap Him in a statement.

nasb@Mark:10:14 @They came and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

nasb@Mark:10:15" @Shall we pay or shall we not pay?" But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at."

nasb@Mark:10:16 @They brought one. And He said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" And they said to Him, "Caesar's."

nasb@Mark:10:17 @And Jesus said to them, " Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were amazed at Him.

nasb@Mark:10:18 @Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying,

nasb@Mark:10:19" @Teacher, Moses wrote for us that IF A MAN'S BROTHER DIES and leaves behind a wife AND LEAVES NO CHILD, HIS BROTHER SHOULD MARRY THE WIFE AND RAISE UP CHILDREN TO HIS BROTHER.

nasb@Mark:10:20" @There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

nasb@Mark:10:21" @The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

nasb@Mark:10:22 @and so all seven left no children. Last of all the woman died also.

nasb@Mark:10:23" @In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one's wife will she be? For all seven had married her."

nasb@Mark:10:24 @Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

nasb@Mark:10:25" @For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

nasb@Mark:10:26" @But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ' I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, and the God of Jacob'?

nasb@Mark:10:27" @ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."

nasb@Mark:10:28 @One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?"

nasb@Mark:10:29 @Jesus answered, "The foremost is, ' HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD;

nasb@Mark:10:30 @AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'

nasb@Mark:10:31" @The second is this, ' YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

nasb@Mark:10:32 @The scribe said to Him, "Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM;

nasb@Mark:10:33 @AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART AND WITH ALL THE UNDERSTANDING AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE ONE'S NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

nasb@Mark:10:34 @When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.

nasb@Mark:10:35 @And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

nasb@Mark:10:36" @David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ' THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET."'

nasb@Mark:10:37" @David himself calls Him 'Lord'; so in what sense is He his son?" And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him.

nasb@Mark:10:38 @In His teaching He was saying- "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,

nasb@Mark:10:39 @and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets,

nasb@Mark:10:40 @who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation."

nasb@Mark:10:41 @And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.

nasb@Mark:10:42 @A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.

nasb@Mark:10:43 @Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury;

nasb@Mark:10:44 @for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on."

nasb@Mark:11:1 @As He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, "Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!"

nasb@Mark:11:2 @And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down."

nasb@Mark:11:3 @As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were questioning Him privately,

nasb@Mark:11:4" @Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?"

nasb@Mark:11:5 @And Jesus began to say to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.

nasb@Mark:11:6" @Many will come in My name, saying, ' I am He!' and will mislead many.

nasb@Mark:11:7" @When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.

nasb@Mark:11:8" @For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

nasb@Mark:11:9" @But be on your guard; for they will deliver you to the courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

nasb@Mark:11:10" @ The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

nasb@Mark:11:11" @ When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Mark:11:12" @Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

nasb@Mark:11:13" @ You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

nasb@Mark:11:14" @But when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

nasb@Mark:11:15" @ The one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house;

nasb@Mark:11:16 @and the one who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

nasb@Mark:11:17" @But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

nasb@Mark:11:18" @But pray that it may not happen in the winter.

nasb@Mark:11:19" @For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

nasb@Mark:11:20" @Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

nasb@Mark:11:21" @And then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ'; or, 'Behold, He is there'; do not believe him;

nasb@Mark:11:22 @for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

nasb@Mark:11:23" @But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.

nasb@Mark:11:24" @But in those days, after that tribulation, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT,

nasb@Mark:11:25 @AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

nasb@Mark:11:26" @Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN CLOUDS with great power and glory.

nasb@Mark:11:27" @And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

nasb@Mark:11:28" @Now learn the parable from the fig tree- when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

nasb@Mark:11:29" @Even so, you too, when you see these things happening, recognize that He is near, right at the door.

nasb@Mark:11:30" @Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

nasb@Mark:11:31" @Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

nasb@Mark:11:32" @ But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

nasb@Mark:11:33" @Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

nasb@Mark:11:34" @ It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.

nasb@Mark:11:35" @Therefore, be on the alert--for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning--

nasb@Mark:11:36 @in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep.

nasb@Mark:11:37" @What I say to you I say to all, ' Be on the alert!'"

nasb@Mark:12:1 @Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

nasb@Mark:12:2 @for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."

nasb@Mark:12:3 @While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

nasb@Mark:12:4 @But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?

nasb@Mark:12:5" @For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her.

nasb@Mark:12:6 @But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

nasb@Mark:12:7" @For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

nasb@Mark:12:8" @She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

nasb@Mark:12:9" @Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

nasb@Mark:12:10 @Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

nasb@Mark:12:11 @They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

nasb@Mark:12:12 @On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

nasb@Mark:12:13 @And He sent two of His disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him;

nasb@Mark:12:14 @and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"'

nasb@Mark:12:15" @And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there."

nasb@Mark:12:16 @The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

nasb@Mark:12:17 @When it was evening He came with the twelve.

nasb@Mark:12:18 @As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me--one who is eating with Me."

nasb@Mark:12:19 @They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, "Surely not I?"

nasb@Mark:12:20 @And He said to them, "It is one of the twelve, one who dips with Me in the bowl.

nasb@Mark:12:21" @For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."

nasb@Mark:12:22 @While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body."

nasb@Mark:12:23 @And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

nasb@Mark:12:24 @And He said to them, "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

nasb@Mark:12:25" @Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

nasb@Mark:12:26 @After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

nasb@Mark:12:27 @And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, because it is written, ' I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP SHALL BE SCATTERED.'

nasb@Mark:12:28" @But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee."

nasb@Mark:12:29 @But Peter said to Him, "Even though all may fall away, yet I will not."

nasb@Mark:12:30 @And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you, that this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times."

nasb@Mark:12:31 @But Peter kept saying insistently, "Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!" And they all were saying the same thing also.

nasb@Mark:12:32 @They came to a place named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, "Sit here until I have prayed."

nasb@Mark:12:33 @And He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.

nasb@Mark:12:34 @And He said to them, " My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death; remain here and keep watch."

nasb@Mark:12:35 @And He went a little beyond them, and fell to the ground and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass Him by.

nasb@Mark:12:36 @And He was saying, " Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will."

nasb@Mark:12:37 @And He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

nasb@Mark:12:38" @ Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

nasb@Mark:12:39 @Again He went away and prayed, saying the same words.

nasb@Mark:12:40 @And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.

nasb@Mark:12:41 @And He came the third time, and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough; the hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

nasb@Mark:12:42" @Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!"

nasb@Mark:12:43 @Immediately while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs, who were from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

nasb@Mark:12:44 @Now he who was betraying Him had given them a signal, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him and lead Him away under guard."

nasb@Mark:12:45 @After coming, Judas immediately went to Him, saying, " Rabbi!" and kissed Him.

nasb@Mark:12:46 @They laid hands on Him and seized Him.

nasb@Mark:12:47 @But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

nasb@Mark:12:48 @And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me, as you would against a robber?

nasb@Mark:12:49" @Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures."

nasb@Mark:12:50 @And they all left Him and fled.

nasb@Mark:12:51 @A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him.

nasb@Mark:12:52 @But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.

nasb@Mark:12:53 @They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes gathered together.

nasb@Mark:12:54 @Peter had followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself at the fire.

nasb@Mark:12:55 @Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

nasb@Mark:12:56 @For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent.

nasb@Mark:12:57 @Some stood up and began to give false testimony against Him, saying,

nasb@Mark:12:58" @We heard Him say, ' I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

nasb@Mark:12:59 @Not even in this respect was their testimony consistent.

nasb@Mark:12:60 @The high priest stood up and came forward and questioned Jesus, saying, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?"

nasb@Mark:12:61 @But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

nasb@Mark:12:62 @And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."

nasb@Mark:12:63 @Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, "What further need do we have of witnesses?

nasb@Mark:12:64" @You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

nasb@Mark:12:65 @Some began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, " Prophesy!" And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.

nasb@Mark:12:66 @As Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came,

nasb@Mark:12:67 @and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Nazarene."

nasb@Mark:12:68 @But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are talking about." And he went out onto the porch.

nasb@Mark:12:69 @The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, "This is one of them!"

nasb@Mark:12:70 @But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too."

nasb@Mark:12:71 @But he began to curse and swear, "I do not know this man you are talking about!"

nasb@Mark:12:72 @Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times." And he began to weep.

nasb@Mark:13:1 @Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, immediately held a consultation; and binding Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

nasb@Mark:13:2 @Pilate questioned Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answered him, "It is as you say."

nasb@Mark:13:3 @The chief priests began to accuse Him harshly.

nasb@Mark:13:4 @Then Pilate questioned Him again, saying, "Do You not answer? See how many charges they bring against You!"

nasb@Mark:13:5 @But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate was amazed.

nasb@Mark:13:6 @Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.

nasb@Mark:13:7 @The man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.

nasb@Mark:13:8 @The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.

nasb@Mark:13:9 @Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"

nasb@Mark:13:10 @For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.

nasb@Mark:13:11 @But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.

nasb@Mark:13:12 @Answering again, Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

nasb@Mark:13:13 @They shouted back, "Crucify Him!"

nasb@Mark:13:14 @But Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify Him!"

nasb@Mark:13:15 @Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified.

nasb@Mark:13:16 @The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort.

nasb@Mark:13:17 @They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;

nasb@Mark:13:18 @and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

nasb@Mark:13:19 @They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.

nasb@Mark:13:20 @After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.

nasb@Mark:13:21 @They pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.

nasb@Mark:13:22 @Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.

nasb@Mark:13:23 @They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.

nasb@Mark:13:24 @And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take.

nasb@Mark:13:25 @It was the third hour when they crucified Him.

nasb@Mark:13:26 @The inscription of the charge against Him read, " THE KING OF THE JEWS."

nasb@Mark:13:27 @They crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left.

nasb@Mark:13:28 @[ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with transgressors."]

nasb@Mark:13:29 @Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

nasb@Mark:13:30 @save Yourself, and come down from the cross!"

nasb@Mark:13:31 @In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were mocking Him among themselves and saying, " He saved others; He cannot save Himself.

nasb@Mark:13:32" @Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!" Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.

nasb@Mark:13:33 @When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

nasb@Mark:13:34 @At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, " ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"

nasb@Mark:13:35 @When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, "Behold, He is calling for Elijah."

nasb@Mark:13:36 @Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down."

nasb@Mark:13:37 @And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last.

nasb@Mark:13:38 @And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

nasb@Mark:13:39 @When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

nasb@Mark:13:40 @There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

nasb@Mark:13:41 @When He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him; and there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

nasb@Mark:13:42 @When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

nasb@Mark:13:43 @Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

nasb@Mark:13:44 @Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.

nasb@Mark:13:45 @And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

nasb@Mark:13:46 @Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

nasb@Mark:13:47 @Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He was laid.

nasb@Mark:14:1 @When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.

nasb@Mark:14:2 @Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

nasb@Mark:14:3 @They were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?"

nasb@Mark:14:4 @Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large.

nasb@Mark:14:5 @Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed.

nasb@Mark:14:6 @And he said to them, " Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the place where they laid Him.

nasb@Mark:14:7" @But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ' He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.'"

nasb@Mark:14:8 @They went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

nasb@Mark:14:9 @[ Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

nasb@Mark:14:10 @She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping.

nasb@Mark:14:11 @When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

nasb@Mark:14:12 @After that, He appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking along on their way to the country.

nasb@Mark:14:13 @They went away and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.

nasb@Mark:14:14 @Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

nasb@Mark:14:15 @And He said to them, " Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

nasb@Mark:14:16" @ He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

nasb@Mark:14:17" @These signs will accompany those who have believed- in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;

nasb@Mark:14:18 @they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

nasb@Mark:14:19 @So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

nasb@Mark:14:20 @And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.] [ And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]

nasb@Luke:1:1 @Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us,

nasb@Luke:1:2 @just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

nasb@Luke:1:3 @it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus;

nasb@Luke:1:4 @so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught.

nasb@Luke:1:5 @In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

nasb@Luke:1:6 @They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

nasb@Luke:1:7 @But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.

nasb@Luke:1:8 @Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division,

nasb@Luke:1:9 @according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

nasb@Luke:1:10 @And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering.

nasb@Luke:1:11 @And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.

nasb@Luke:1:12 @Zacharias was troubled when he saw the angel, and fear gripped him.

nasb@Luke:1:13 @But the angel said to him, " Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John.

nasb@Luke:1:14" @You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

nasb@Luke:1:15" @For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb.

nasb@Luke:1:16" @And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.

nasb@Luke:1:17" @It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS BACK TO THE CHILDREN, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

nasb@Luke:1:18 @Zacharias said to the angel, "How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years."

nasb@Luke:1:19 @The angel answered and said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

nasb@Luke:1:20" @And behold, you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

nasb@Luke:1:21 @The people were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering at his delay in the temple.

nasb@Luke:1:22 @But when he came out, he was unable to speak to them; and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he kept making signs to them, and remained mute.

nasb@Luke:1:23 @When the days of his priestly service were ended, he went back home.

nasb@Luke:1:24 @After these days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,

nasb@Luke:1:25" @This is the way the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favor upon me, to take away my disgrace among men."

nasb@Luke:1:26 @Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

nasb@Luke:1:27 @to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

nasb@Luke:1:28 @And coming in, he said to her, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you."

nasb@Luke:1:29 @But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was.

nasb@Luke:1:30 @The angel said to her, " Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God.

nasb@Luke:1:31" @And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

nasb@Luke:1:32" @He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;

nasb@Luke:1:33 @and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end."

nasb@Luke:1:34 @Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?"

nasb@Luke:1:35 @The angel answered and said to her, " The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.

nasb@Luke:1:36" @And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.

nasb@Luke:1:37" @For nothing will be impossible with God."

nasb@Luke:1:38 @And Mary said, "Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

nasb@Luke:1:39 @Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah,

nasb@Luke:1:40 @and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

nasb@Luke:1:41 @When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Luke:1:42 @And she cried out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

nasb@Luke:1:43" @And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?

nasb@Luke:1:44" @For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.

nasb@Luke:1:45" @And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord."

nasb@Luke:1:46 @And Mary said- " My soul exalts the Lord,

nasb@Luke:1:47 @And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

nasb@Luke:1:48" @For He has had regard for the humble state of His bondslave; For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.

nasb@Luke:1:49" @For the Mighty One has done great things for me; And holy is His name.

nasb@Luke:1:50" @ AND HIS MERCY IS UPON GENERATION AFTER GENERATION TOWARD THOSE WHO FEAR HIM.

nasb@Luke:1:51" @ He has done mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.

nasb@Luke:1:52" @He has brought down rulers from their thrones, And has exalted those who were humble.

nasb@Luke:1:53" @ HE HAS FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS; And sent away the rich empty-handed.

nasb@Luke:1:54" @He has given help to Israel His servant, In remembrance of His mercy,

nasb@Luke:1:55 @As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and his descendants forever."

nasb@Luke:1:56 @And Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her home.

nasb@Luke:1:57 @Now the time had come for Elizabeth to give birth, and she gave birth to a son.

nasb@Luke:1:58 @Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had displayed His great mercy toward her; and they were rejoicing with her.

nasb@Luke:1:59 @And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

nasb@Luke:1:60 @But his mother answered and said, "No indeed; but he shall be called John."

nasb@Luke:1:61 @And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name."

nasb@Luke:1:62 @And they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him called.

nasb@Luke:1:63 @And he asked for a tablet and wrote as follows, " His name is John." And they were all astonished.

nasb@Luke:1:64 @And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he began to speak in praise of God.

nasb@Luke:1:65 @Fear came on all those living around them; and all these matters were being talked about in all the hill country of Judea.

nasb@Luke:1:66 @All who heard them kept them in mind, saying, "What then will this child turn out to be?" For the hand of the Lord was certainly with him.

nasb@Luke:1:67 @And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying-

nasb@Luke:1:68" @ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people,

nasb@Luke:1:69 @And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of David His servant--

nasb@Luke:1:70 @As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old--

nasb@Luke:1:71 @Salvation FROM OUR ENEMIES, And FROM THE HAND OF ALL WHO HATE US;

nasb@Luke:1:72 @To show mercy toward our fathers, And to remember His holy covenant,

nasb@Luke:1:73 @The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,

nasb@Luke:1:74 @To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear,

nasb@Luke:1:75 @In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

nasb@Luke:1:76" @And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; For you will go on BEFORE THE LORD TO PREPARE HIS WAYS;

nasb@Luke:1:77 @To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

nasb@Luke:1:78 @Because of the tender mercy of our God, With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,

nasb@Luke:1:79 @TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet into the way of peace."

nasb@Luke:1:80 @And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

nasb@Luke:2:1 @Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.

nasb@Luke:2:2 @This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.

nasb@Luke:2:3 @And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city.

nasb@Luke:2:4 @Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

nasb@Luke:2:5 @in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child.

nasb@Luke:2:6 @While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth.

nasb@Luke:2:7 @And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

nasb@Luke:2:8 @In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.

nasb@Luke:2:9 @And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.

nasb@Luke:2:10 @But the angel said to them, " Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people;

nasb@Luke:2:11 @for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

nasb@Luke:2:12" @ This will be a sign for you- you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

nasb@Luke:2:13 @And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

nasb@Luke:2:14" @ Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased."

nasb@Luke:2:15 @When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, "Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us."

nasb@Luke:2:16 @So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

nasb@Luke:2:17 @When they had seen this, they made known the statement which had been told them about this Child.

nasb@Luke:2:18 @And all who heard it wondered at the things which were told them by the shepherds.

nasb@Luke:2:19 @But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.

nasb@Luke:2:20 @The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.

nasb@Luke:2:21 @And when eight days had passed, before His circumcision, His name was then called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

nasb@Luke:2:22 @And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

nasb@Luke:2:23 @(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, " EVERY firstborn MALE THAT OPENS THE WOMB SHALL BE CALLED HOLY TO THE LORD"),

nasb@Luke:2:24 @and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of the Lord, " A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS."

nasb@Luke:2:25 @And there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

nasb@Luke:2:26 @And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

nasb@Luke:2:27 @And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,

nasb@Luke:2:28 @then he took Him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

nasb@Luke:2:29" @Now Lord, You are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, According to Your word;

nasb@Luke:2:30 @For my eyes have seen Your salvation,

nasb@Luke:2:31 @Which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples,

nasb@Luke:2:32 @A LIGHT OF REVELATION TO THE GENTILES, And the glory of Your people Israel."

nasb@Luke:2:33 @And His father and mother were amazed at the things which were being said about Him.

nasb@Luke:2:34 @And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed--

nasb@Luke:2:35 @and a sword will pierce even your own soul--to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed."

nasb@Luke:2:36 @And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

nasb@Luke:2:37 @and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

nasb@Luke:2:38 @At that very moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:2:39 @When they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city of Nazareth.

nasb@Luke:2:40 @The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

nasb@Luke:2:41 @Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

nasb@Luke:2:42 @And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast;

nasb@Luke:2:43 @and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,

nasb@Luke:2:44 @but supposed Him to be in the caravan, and went a day's journey; and they began looking for Him among their relatives and acquaintances.

nasb@Luke:2:45 @When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem looking for Him.

nasb@Luke:2:46 @Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

nasb@Luke:2:47 @And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.

nasb@Luke:2:48 @When they saw Him, they were astonished; and His mother said to Him, "Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You."

nasb@Luke:2:49 @And He said to them, "Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father's house?"

nasb@Luke:2:50 @But they did not understand the statement which He had made to them.

nasb@Luke:2:51 @And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

nasb@Luke:2:52 @And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

nasb@Luke:3:1 @Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

nasb@Luke:3:2 @in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

nasb@Luke:3:3 @And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

nasb@Luke:3:4 @as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, " THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.

nasb@Luke:3:5 @' EVERY RAVINE WILL BE FILLED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL WILL BE BROUGHT LOW; THE CROOKED WILL BECOME STRAIGHT, AND THE ROUGH ROADS SMOOTH;

nasb@Luke:3:6 @AND ALL FLESH WILL SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD.'"

nasb@Luke:3:7 @So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, " You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

nasb@Luke:3:8" @Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ' We have Abraham for our father,' for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

nasb@Luke:3:9" @Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."

nasb@Luke:3:10 @And the crowds were questioning him, saying, " Then what shall we do?"

nasb@Luke:3:11 @And he would answer and say to them, "The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise."

nasb@Luke:3:12 @And some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"

nasb@Luke:3:13 @And he said to them, "Collect no more than what you have been ordered to."

nasb@Luke:3:14 @Some soldiers were questioning him, saying, "And what about us, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do not take money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wages."

nasb@Luke:3:15 @Now while the people were in a state of expectation and all were wondering in their hearts about John, as to whether he was the Christ,

nasb@Luke:3:16 @John answered and said to them all, "As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

nasb@Luke:3:17" @His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

nasb@Luke:3:18 @So with many other exhortations he preached the gospel to the people.

nasb@Luke:3:19 @But when Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done,

nasb@Luke:3:20 @Herod also added this to them all- he locked John up in prison.

nasb@Luke:3:21 @Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened,

nasb@Luke:3:22 @and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, " You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased."

nasb@Luke:3:23 @When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,

nasb@Luke:3:24 @the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

nasb@Luke:3:25 @the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Hesli, the son of Naggai,

nasb@Luke:3:26 @the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

nasb@Luke:3:27 @the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

nasb@Luke:3:28 @the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

nasb@Luke:3:29 @the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

nasb@Luke:3:30 @the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

nasb@Luke:3:31 @the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

nasb@Luke:3:32 @the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

nasb@Luke:3:33 @the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

nasb@Luke:3:34 @the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

nasb@Luke:3:35 @the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Heber, the son of Shelah,

nasb@Luke:3:36 @the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

nasb@Luke:3:37 @the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

nasb@Luke:3:38 @the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

nasb@Luke:4:1 @Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness

nasb@Luke:4:2 @for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.

nasb@Luke:4:3 @And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

nasb@Luke:4:4 @And Jesus answered him, "It is written, ' MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE.'"

nasb@Luke:4:5 @And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

nasb@Luke:4:6 @And the devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

nasb@Luke:4:7" @Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours."

nasb@Luke:4:8 @Jesus answered him, "It is written, ' YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD AND SERVE HIM ONLY.'"

nasb@Luke:4:9 @And he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here;

nasb@Luke:4:10 @for it is written, ' HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU,'

nasb@Luke:4:11 @and, ' ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"

nasb@Luke:4:12 @And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, ' YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'"

nasb@Luke:4:13 @When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

nasb@Luke:4:14 @And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district.

nasb@Luke:4:15 @And He began teaching in their synagogues and was praised by all.

nasb@Luke:4:16 @And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

nasb@Luke:4:17 @And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,

nasb@Luke:4:18" @ THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,

nasb@Luke:4:19 @TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD."

nasb@Luke:4:20 @And He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

nasb@Luke:4:21 @And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

nasb@Luke:4:22 @And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips; and they were saying, " Is this not Joseph's son?"

nasb@Luke:4:23 @And He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.'"

nasb@Luke:4:24 @And He said, "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

nasb@Luke:4:25" @But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

nasb@Luke:4:26 @and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

nasb@Luke:4:27" @And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

nasb@Luke:4:28 @And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things;

nasb@Luke:4:29 @and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.

nasb@Luke:4:30 @But passing through their midst, He went His way.

nasb@Luke:4:31 @And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath;

nasb@Luke:4:32 @and they were amazed at His teaching, for His message was with authority.

nasb@Luke:4:33 @In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

nasb@Luke:4:34" @Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are-- the Holy One of God!"

nasb@Luke:4:35 @But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet and come out of him!" And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

nasb@Luke:4:36 @And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another saying, "What is this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out."

nasb@Luke:4:37 @And the report about Him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district.

nasb@Luke:4:38 @Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon's home. Now Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

nasb@Luke:4:39 @And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately got up and waited on them.

nasb@Luke:4:40 @While the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them.

nasb@Luke:4:41 @Demons also were coming out of many, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

nasb@Luke:4:42 @When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them.

nasb@Luke:4:43 @But He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose."

nasb@Luke:4:44 @So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

nasb@Luke:5:1 @Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

nasb@Luke:5:2 @and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

nasb@Luke:5:3 @And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat.

nasb@Luke:5:4 @When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch."

nasb@Luke:5:5 @Simon answered and said, " Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets."

nasb@Luke:5:6 @When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break;

nasb@Luke:5:7 @so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that they began to sink.

nasb@Luke:5:8 @But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, "Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

nasb@Luke:5:9 @For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken;

nasb@Luke:5:10 @and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, " Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men."

nasb@Luke:5:11 @When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.

nasb@Luke:5:12 @While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

nasb@Luke:5:13 @And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy left him.

nasb@Luke:5:14 @And He ordered him to tell no one, "But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

nasb@Luke:5:15 @But the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

nasb@Luke:5:16 @But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

nasb@Luke:5:17 @One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.

nasb@Luke:5:18 @And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him.

nasb@Luke:5:19 @But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.

nasb@Luke:5:20 @Seeing their faith, He said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you."

nasb@Luke:5:21 @The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, " Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"

nasb@Luke:5:22 @But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

nasb@Luke:5:23" @Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?

nasb@Luke:5:24" @But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,"--He said to the paralytic--"I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home."

nasb@Luke:5:25 @Immediately he got up before them, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

nasb@Luke:5:26 @They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today."

nasb@Luke:5:27 @After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, "Follow Me."

nasb@Luke:5:28 @And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him.

nasb@Luke:5:29 @And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.

nasb@Luke:5:30 @The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

nasb@Luke:5:31 @And Jesus answered and said to them, " It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.

nasb@Luke:5:32" @I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."

nasb@Luke:5:33 @And they said to Him, " The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink."

nasb@Luke:5:34 @And Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

nasb@Luke:5:35" @ But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days."

nasb@Luke:5:36 @And He was also telling them a parable- "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

nasb@Luke:5:37" @And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.

nasb@Luke:5:38" @But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

nasb@Luke:5:39" @And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, 'The old is good enough.'"

nasb@Luke:6:1 @Now it happened that He was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath; and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain.

nasb@Luke:6:2 @But some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"

nasb@Luke:6:3 @And Jesus answering them said, "Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

nasb@Luke:6:4 @how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the consecrated bread which is not lawful for any to eat except the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?"

nasb@Luke:6:5 @And He was saying to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

nasb@Luke:6:6 @On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and was teaching; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.

nasb@Luke:6:7 @The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find reason to accuse Him.

nasb@Luke:6:8 @But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!" And he got up and came forward.

nasb@Luke:6:9 @And Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?"

nasb@Luke:6:10 @After looking around at them all, He said to him, "Stretch out your hand!" And he did so; and his hand was restored.

nasb@Luke:6:11 @But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.

nasb@Luke:6:12 @It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

nasb@Luke:6:13 @And when day came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles-

nasb@Luke:6:14 @Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew;

nasb@Luke:6:15 @and Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot;

nasb@Luke:6:16 @Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

nasb@Luke:6:17 @Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great throng of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

nasb@Luke:6:18 @who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were being cured.

nasb@Luke:6:19 @And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.

nasb@Luke:6:20 @And turning His gaze toward His disciples, He began to say, " Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

nasb@Luke:6:21" @Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

nasb@Luke:6:22" @ Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

nasb@Luke:6:23" @Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets.

nasb@Luke:6:24" @But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

nasb@Luke:6:25" @Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

nasb@Luke:6:26" @Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.

nasb@Luke:6:27" @But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

nasb@Luke:6:28 @bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

nasb@Luke:6:29" @ Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.

nasb@Luke:6:30" @Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.

nasb@Luke:6:31" @ Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.

nasb@Luke:6:32" @ If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

nasb@Luke:6:33" @If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

nasb@Luke:6:34" @ If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount.

nasb@Luke:6:35" @But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

nasb@Luke:6:36" @Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

nasb@Luke:6:37" @ Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.

nasb@Luke:6:38" @Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

nasb@Luke:6:39 @And He also spoke a parable to them- " A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

nasb@Luke:6:40" @ A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

nasb@Luke:6:41" @Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

nasb@Luke:6:42" @Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

nasb@Luke:6:43" @ For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

nasb@Luke:6:44" @ For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

nasb@Luke:6:45" @ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.

nasb@Luke:6:46" @ Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

nasb@Luke:6:47" @ Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like-

nasb@Luke:6:48 @he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

nasb@Luke:6:49" @But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great."

nasb@Luke:7:1 @When He had completed all His discourse in the hearing of the people, He went to Capernaum.

nasb@Luke:7:2 @And a centurion's slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.

nasb@Luke:7:3 @When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

nasb@Luke:7:4 @When they came to Jesus, they earnestly implored Him, saying, "He is worthy for You to grant this to him;

nasb@Luke:7:5 @for he loves our nation and it was he who built us our synagogue."

nasb@Luke:7:6 @Now Jesus started on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, "Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to come under my roof;

nasb@Luke:7:7 @for this reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

nasb@Luke:7:8" @For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."

nasb@Luke:7:9 @Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him, and turned and said to the crowd that was following Him, "I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith."

nasb@Luke:7:10 @When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

nasb@Luke:7:11 @Soon afterwards He went to a city called Nain; and His disciples were going along with Him, accompanied by a large crowd.

nasb@Luke:7:12 @Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.

nasb@Luke:7:13 @When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her, and said to her, "Do not weep."

nasb@Luke:7:14 @And He came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, "Young man, I say to you, arise!"

nasb@Luke:7:15 @The dead man sat up and began to speak. And Jesus gave him back to his mother.

nasb@Luke:7:16 @Fear gripped them all, and they began glorifying God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited His people!"

nasb@Luke:7:17 @This report concerning Him went out all over Judea and in all the surrounding district.

nasb@Luke:7:18 @The disciples of John reported to him about all these things.

nasb@Luke:7:19 @Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?"

nasb@Luke:7:20 @When the men came to Him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, to ask, 'Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?'"

nasb@Luke:7:21 @At that very time He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits; and He gave sight to many who were blind.

nasb@Luke:7:22 @And He answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard- the BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM.

nasb@Luke:7:23" @Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me."

nasb@Luke:7:24 @When the messengers of John had left, He began to speak to the crowds about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

nasb@Luke:7:25" @But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!

nasb@Luke:7:26" @But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and one who is more than a prophet.

nasb@Luke:7:27" @This is the one about whom it is written, ' BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.'

nasb@Luke:7:28" @I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

nasb@Luke:7:29 @When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God's justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

nasb@Luke:7:30 @But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

nasb@Luke:7:31" @To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?

nasb@Luke:7:32" @They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.'

nasb@Luke:7:33" @For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

nasb@Luke:7:34" @The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

nasb@Luke:7:35" @Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

nasb@Luke:7:36 @Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.

nasb@Luke:7:37 @And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

nasb@Luke:7:38 @and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

nasb@Luke:7:39 @Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner."

nasb@Luke:7:40 @And Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he replied, "Say it, Teacher."

nasb@Luke:7:41" @A moneylender had two debtors- one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

nasb@Luke:7:42" @When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more?"

nasb@Luke:7:43 @Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

nasb@Luke:7:44 @Turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

nasb@Luke:7:45" @You gave Me no kiss; but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.

nasb@Luke:7:46" @ You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

nasb@Luke:7:47" @For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little."

nasb@Luke:7:48 @Then He said to her, " Your sins have been forgiven."

nasb@Luke:7:49 @Those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, " Who is this man who even forgives sins?"

nasb@Luke:7:50 @And He said to the woman, " Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

nasb@Luke:8:1 @Soon afterwards, He began going around from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God. The twelve were with Him,

nasb@Luke:8:2 @and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses- Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

nasb@Luke:8:3 @and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.

nasb@Luke:8:4 @When a large crowd was coming together, and those from the various cities were journeying to Him, He spoke by way of a parable-

nasb@Luke:8:5" @The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air ate it up.

nasb@Luke:8:6" @Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

nasb@Luke:8:7" @Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

nasb@Luke:8:8" @Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great." As He said these things, He would call out, " He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Luke:8:9 @His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant.

nasb@Luke:8:10 @And He said, " To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.

nasb@Luke:8:11" @Now the parable is this- the seed is the word of God.

nasb@Luke:8:12" @Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.

nasb@Luke:8:13" @Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

nasb@Luke:8:14" @The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

nasb@Luke:8:15" @But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.

nasb@Luke:8:16" @Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

nasb@Luke:8:17" @ For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

nasb@Luke:8:18" @So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

nasb@Luke:8:19 @And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd.

nasb@Luke:8:20 @And it was reported to Him, "Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You."

nasb@Luke:8:21 @But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

nasb@Luke:8:22 @Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.

nasb@Luke:8:23 @But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.

nasb@Luke:8:24 @They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, " Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm.

nasb@Luke:8:25 @And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"

nasb@Luke:8:26 @Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.

nasb@Luke:8:27 @And when He came out onto the land, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed with demons; and who had not put on any clothing for a long time, and was not living in a house, but in the tombs.

nasb@Luke:8:28 @Seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell before Him, and said in a loud voice, " What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me."

nasb@Luke:8:29 @For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.

nasb@Luke:8:30 @And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, " Legion"; for many demons had entered him.

nasb@Luke:8:31 @They were imploring Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.

nasb@Luke:8:32 @Now there was a herd of many swine feeding there on the mountain; and the demons implored Him to permit them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission.

nasb@Luke:8:33 @And the demons came out of the man and entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

nasb@Luke:8:34 @When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and out in the country.

nasb@Luke:8:35 @The people went out to see what had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they became frightened.

nasb@Luke:8:36 @Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well.

nasb@Luke:8:37 @And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes and the surrounding district asked Him to leave them, for they were gripped with great fear; and He got into a boat and returned.

nasb@Luke:8:38 @But the man from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him that he might accompany Him; but He sent him away, saying,

nasb@Luke:8:39" @Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

nasb@Luke:8:40 @And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.

nasb@Luke:8:41 @And there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus' feet, and began to implore Him to come to his house;

nasb@Luke:8:42 @for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

nasb@Luke:8:43 @And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,

nasb@Luke:8:44 @came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped.

nasb@Luke:8:45 @And Jesus said, "Who is the one who touched Me?" And while they were all denying it, Peter said, " Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You."

nasb@Luke:8:46 @But Jesus said, "Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me."

nasb@Luke:8:47 @When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

nasb@Luke:8:48 @And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace."

nasb@Luke:8:49 @While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, "Your daughter has died; do not trouble the Teacher anymore."

nasb@Luke:8:50 @But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, " Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well."

nasb@Luke:8:51 @When He came to the house, He did not allow anyone to enter with Him, except Peter and John and James, and the girl's father and mother.

nasb@Luke:8:52 @Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, "Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep."

nasb@Luke:8:53 @And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.

nasb@Luke:8:54 @He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, "Child, arise!"

nasb@Luke:8:55 @And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately; and He gave orders for something to be given her to eat.

nasb@Luke:8:56 @Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

nasb@Luke:9:1 @And He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.

nasb@Luke:9:2 @And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.

nasb@Luke:9:3 @And He said to them, " Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.

nasb@Luke:9:4" @Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city.

nasb@Luke:9:5" @And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

nasb@Luke:9:6 @Departing, they began going throughout the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

nasb@Luke:9:7 @Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was happening; and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

nasb@Luke:9:8 @and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen again.

nasb@Luke:9:9 @Herod said, "I myself had John beheaded; but who is this man about whom I hear such things?" And he kept trying to see Him.

nasb@Luke:9:10 @When the apostles returned, they gave an account to Him of all that they had done. Taking them with Him, He withdrew by Himself to a city called Bethsaida.

nasb@Luke:9:11 @But the crowds were aware of this and followed Him; and welcoming them, He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.

nasb@Luke:9:12 @Now the day was ending, and the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the crowd away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; for here we are in a desolate place."

nasb@Luke:9:13 @But He said to them, "You give them something to eat!" And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people."

nasb@Luke:9:14 @(For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, "Have them sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each."

nasb@Luke:9:15 @They did so, and had them all sit down.

nasb@Luke:9:16 @Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people.

nasb@Luke:9:17 @And they all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had left over were picked up, twelve baskets full.

nasb@Luke:9:18 @And it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him, and He questioned them, saying, "Who do the people say that I am?"

nasb@Luke:9:19 @They answered and said, "John the Baptist, and others say Elijah; but others, that one of the prophets of old has risen again."

nasb@Luke:9:20 @And He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered and said, " The Christ of God."

nasb@Luke:9:21 @But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone,

nasb@Luke:9:22 @saying, " The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day."

nasb@Luke:9:23 @And He was saying to them all, " If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

nasb@Luke:9:24" @For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

nasb@Luke:9:25" @For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

nasb@Luke:9:26" @ For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

nasb@Luke:9:27" @But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God."

nasb@Luke:9:28 @Some eight days after these sayings, He took along Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

nasb@Luke:9:29 @And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming.

nasb@Luke:9:30 @And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah,

nasb@Luke:9:31 @who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:9:32 @Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep; but when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men standing with Him.

nasb@Luke:9:33 @And as these were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, " Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles- one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah"-- not realizing what he was saying.

nasb@Luke:9:34 @While he was saying this, a cloud formed and began to overshadow them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

nasb@Luke:9:35 @Then a voice came out of the cloud, saying, " This is My Son, My Chosen One; listen to Him!"

nasb@Luke:9:36 @And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

nasb@Luke:9:37 @On the next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him.

nasb@Luke:9:38 @And a man from the crowd shouted, saying, "Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy,

nasb@Luke:9:39 @and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.

nasb@Luke:9:40" @I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not."

nasb@Luke:9:41 @And Jesus answered and said, "You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here."

nasb@Luke:9:42 @While he was still approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

nasb@Luke:9:43 @And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. But while everyone was marveling at all that He was doing, He said to His disciples,

nasb@Luke:9:44" @Let these words sink into your ears; for the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men."

nasb@Luke:9:45 @But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they would not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

nasb@Luke:9:46 @An argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest.

nasb@Luke:9:47 @But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side,

nasb@Luke:9:48 @and said to them, " Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great."

nasb@Luke:9:49 @John answered and said, " Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name; and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow along with us."

nasb@Luke:9:50 @But Jesus said to him, "Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you."

nasb@Luke:9:51 @When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determined to go to Jerusalem;

nasb@Luke:9:52 @and He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him.

nasb@Luke:9:53 @But they did not receive Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:9:54 @When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

nasb@Luke:9:55 @But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;

nasb@Luke:9:56 @for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."] And they went on to another village.

nasb@Luke:9:57 @As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, "I will follow You wherever You go."

nasb@Luke:9:58 @And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

nasb@Luke:9:59 @And He said to another, " Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

nasb@Luke:9:60 @But He said to him, "Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God."

nasb@Luke:9:61 @Another also said, "I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home."

nasb@Luke:9:62 @But Jesus said to him, " No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

nasb@Luke:10:1 @Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

nasb@Luke:10:2 @And He was saying to them, " The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.

nasb@Luke:10:3" @Go; behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

nasb@Luke:10:4" @ Carry no money belt, no bag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way.

nasb@Luke:10:5" @Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'

nasb@Luke:10:6" @If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

nasb@Luke:10:7" @Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house.

nasb@Luke:10:8" @Whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you;

nasb@Luke:10:9 @and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ' The kingdom of God has come near to you.'

nasb@Luke:10:10" @But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

nasb@Luke:10:11 @' Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near.'

nasb@Luke:10:12" @I say to you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

nasb@Luke:10:13" @ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

nasb@Luke:10:14" @But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

nasb@Luke:10:15" @And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!

nasb@Luke:10:16" @ The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me."

nasb@Luke:10:17 @The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."

nasb@Luke:10:18 @And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

nasb@Luke:10:19" @Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.

nasb@Luke:10:20" @Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."

nasb@Luke:10:21 @At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

nasb@Luke:10:22" @ All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

nasb@Luke:10:23 @Turning to the disciples, He said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see,

nasb@Luke:10:24 @for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them."

nasb@Luke:10:25 @And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

nasb@Luke:10:26 @And He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?"

nasb@Luke:10:27 @And he answered, " YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

nasb@Luke:10:28 @And He said to him, "You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE."

nasb@Luke:10:29 @But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

nasb@Luke:10:30 @Jesus replied and said, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

nasb@Luke:10:31" @And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

nasb@Luke:10:32" @Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

nasb@Luke:10:33" @But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,

nasb@Luke:10:34 @and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

nasb@Luke:10:35" @On the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.'

nasb@Luke:10:36" @Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

nasb@Luke:10:37 @And he said, "The one who showed mercy toward him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

nasb@Luke:10:38 @Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.

nasb@Luke:10:39 @She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord's feet, listening to His word.

nasb@Luke:10:40 @But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me."

nasb@Luke:10:41 @But the Lord answered and said to her, " Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things;

nasb@Luke:10:42 @but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her."

nasb@Luke:11:1 @It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples."

nasb@Luke:11:2 @And He said to them, " When you pray, say- ' Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

nasb@Luke:11:3 @'Give us each day our daily bread.

nasb@Luke:11:4 @'And forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.'"

nasb@Luke:11:5 @Then He said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

nasb@Luke:11:6 @for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him';

nasb@Luke:11:7 @and from inside he answers and says, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.'

nasb@Luke:11:8" @I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

nasb@Luke:11:9" @So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

nasb@Luke:11:10" @For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.

nasb@Luke:11:11" @Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

nasb@Luke:11:12" @Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?

nasb@Luke:11:13" @ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

nasb@Luke:11:14 @And He was casting out a demon, and it was mute; when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed.

nasb@Luke:11:15 @But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons."

nasb@Luke:11:16 @Others, to test Him, were demanding of Him a sign from heaven.

nasb@Luke:11:17 @But He knew their thoughts and said to them, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against itself falls.

nasb@Luke:11:18" @If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

nasb@Luke:11:19" @And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? So they will be your judges.

nasb@Luke:11:20" @But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

nasb@Luke:11:21" @When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.

nasb@Luke:11:22" @But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder.

nasb@Luke:11:23" @ He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.

nasb@Luke:11:24" @ When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'

nasb@Luke:11:25" @And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.

nasb@Luke:11:26" @Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first."

nasb@Luke:11:27 @While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, " Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed."

nasb@Luke:11:28 @But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."

nasb@Luke:11:29 @As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, " This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

nasb@Luke:11:30" @For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

nasb@Luke:11:31" @The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

nasb@Luke:11:32" @The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

nasb@Luke:11:33" @ No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

nasb@Luke:11:34" @ The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

nasb@Luke:11:35" @Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

nasb@Luke:11:36" @If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."

nasb@Luke:11:37 @Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

nasb@Luke:11:38 @When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.

nasb@Luke:11:39 @But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

nasb@Luke:11:40" @ You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

nasb@Luke:11:41" @But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.

nasb@Luke:11:42" @ But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

nasb@Luke:11:43" @Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.

nasb@Luke:11:44" @ Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it."

nasb@Luke:11:45 @One of the lawyers said to Him in reply, "Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."

nasb@Luke:11:46 @But He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

nasb@Luke:11:47" @ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

nasb@Luke:11:48" @So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

nasb@Luke:11:49" @For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ' I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,

nasb@Luke:11:50 @so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

nasb@Luke:11:51 @from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.'

nasb@Luke:11:52" @Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering."

nasb@Luke:11:53 @When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

nasb@Luke:11:54 @plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.

nasb@Luke:11:12 @Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, " Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

nasb@Luke:11:2" @ But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

nasb@Luke:11:3" @Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

nasb@Luke:11:4" @I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

nasb@Luke:11:5" @But I will warn you whom to fear- fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

nasb@Luke:11:6" @Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

nasb@Luke:11:7" @ Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

nasb@Luke:11:8" @And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God;

nasb@Luke:11:9 @but he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

nasb@Luke:11:10" @ And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.

nasb@Luke:11:11" @When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say;

nasb@Luke:11:12 @for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say."

nasb@Luke:11:13 @Someone in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."

nasb@Luke:11:14 @But He said to him, " Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

nasb@Luke:11:15 @Then He said to them, " Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions."

nasb@Luke:11:16 @And He told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man was very productive.

nasb@Luke:11:17" @And he began reasoning to himself, saying, 'What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?'

nasb@Luke:11:18" @Then he said, 'This is what I will do- I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

nasb@Luke:11:19 @'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

nasb@Luke:11:20" @But God said to him, ' You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?'

nasb@Luke:11:21" @So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

nasb@Luke:11:22 @And He said to His disciples, " For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.

nasb@Luke:11:23" @For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

nasb@Luke:11:24" @Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

nasb@Luke:11:25" @And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life's span?

nasb@Luke:11:26" @If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?

nasb@Luke:11:27" @Consider the lilies, how they grow- they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

nasb@Luke:11:28" @But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!

nasb@Luke:11:29" @And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying.

nasb@Luke:11:30" @For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things.

nasb@Luke:11:31" @But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

nasb@Luke:11:32" @ Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.

nasb@Luke:11:33" @ Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.

nasb@Luke:11:34" @For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

nasb@Luke:11:35" @ Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.

nasb@Luke:11:36" @Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.

nasb@Luke:11:37" @Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.

nasb@Luke:11:38" @ Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

nasb@Luke:11:39" @ But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

nasb@Luke:11:40" @ You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."

nasb@Luke:11:41 @Peter said, "Lord, are You addressing this parable to us, or to everyone else as well?"

nasb@Luke:11:42 @And the Lord said, " Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?

nasb@Luke:11:43" @Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.

nasb@Luke:11:44" @Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

nasb@Luke:11:45" @But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master will be a long time in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

nasb@Luke:11:46 @the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

nasb@Luke:11:47" @And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

nasb@Luke:11:48 @but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

nasb@Luke:11:49" @I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled!

nasb@Luke:11:50" @But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

nasb@Luke:11:51" @ Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;

nasb@Luke:11:52 @for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

nasb@Luke:11:53" @They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

nasb@Luke:11:54 @And He was also saying to the crowds, " When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it turns out.

nasb@Luke:11:55" @And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, 'It will be a hot day,' and it turns out that way.

nasb@Luke:11:56" @You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

nasb@Luke:11:57" @And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?

nasb@Luke:11:58" @For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

nasb@Luke:11:59" @I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent."

nasb@Luke:12:1 @Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

nasb@Luke:12:2 @And Jesus said to them, " Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

nasb@Luke:12:3" @I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

nasb@Luke:12:4" @Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?

nasb@Luke:12:5" @I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

nasb@Luke:12:6 @And He began telling this parable- "A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

nasb@Luke:12:7" @And he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'

nasb@Luke:12:8" @And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

nasb@Luke:12:9 @and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.'"

nasb@Luke:12:10 @And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

nasb@Luke:12:11 @And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

nasb@Luke:12:12 @When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness."

nasb@Luke:12:13 @And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.

nasb@Luke:12:14 @But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, " There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

nasb@Luke:12:15 @But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?

nasb@Luke:12:16" @And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

nasb@Luke:12:17 @As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.

nasb@Luke:12:18 @So He was saying, " What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?

nasb@Luke:12:19" @It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and THE BIRDS OF THE AIR NESTED IN ITS BRANCHES."

nasb@Luke:12:20 @And again He said, " To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

nasb@Luke:12:21" @ It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened."

nasb@Luke:12:22 @And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:12:23 @And someone said to Him, "Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?" And He said to them,

nasb@Luke:12:24" @ Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

nasb@Luke:12:25" @Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ' Lord, open up to us!' then He will answer and say to you, ' I do not know where you are from.'

nasb@Luke:12:26" @Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets';

nasb@Luke:12:27 @and He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.'

nasb@Luke:12:28" @ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.

nasb@Luke:12:29" @And they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

nasb@Luke:12:30" @And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last."

nasb@Luke:12:31 @Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill You."

nasb@Luke:12:32 @And He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal.'

nasb@Luke:12:33" @Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:12:34" @ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!

nasb@Luke:12:35" @Behold, your house is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ' BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!'"

nasb@Luke:13:1 @It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely.

nasb@Luke:13:2 @And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.

nasb@Luke:13:3 @And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, " Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?"

nasb@Luke:13:4 @But they kept silent. And He took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away.

nasb@Luke:13:5 @And He said to them, " Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"

nasb@Luke:13:6 @And they could make no reply to this.

nasb@Luke:13:7 @And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

nasb@Luke:13:8" @When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

nasb@Luke:13:9 @and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this man,' and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.

nasb@Luke:13:10" @But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.

nasb@Luke:13:11" @ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

nasb@Luke:13:12 @And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.

nasb@Luke:13:13" @But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

nasb@Luke:13:14 @and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

nasb@Luke:13:15 @When one of those who were reclining at the table with Him heard this, he said to Him, " Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

nasb@Luke:13:16 @But He said to him, " A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;

nasb@Luke:13:17 @and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for everything is ready now.'

nasb@Luke:13:18" @But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.'

nasb@Luke:13:19" @Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.'

nasb@Luke:13:20" @Another one said, ' I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'

nasb@Luke:13:21" @And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, 'Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.'

nasb@Luke:13:22" @And the slave said, 'Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.'

nasb@Luke:13:23" @And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

nasb@Luke:13:24 @'For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner.'"

nasb@Luke:13:25 @Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them,

nasb@Luke:13:26" @ If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

nasb@Luke:13:27" @Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

nasb@Luke:13:28" @For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

nasb@Luke:13:29" @Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,

nasb@Luke:13:30 @saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

nasb@Luke:13:31" @Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

nasb@Luke:13:32" @Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

nasb@Luke:13:33" @So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

nasb@Luke:13:34" @Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?

nasb@Luke:13:35" @It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

nasb@Luke:14:1 @Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him.

nasb@Luke:14:2 @Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

nasb@Luke:14:3 @So He told them this parable, saying,

nasb@Luke:14:4" @ What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

nasb@Luke:14:5" @When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

nasb@Luke:14:6" @And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

nasb@Luke:14:7" @I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

nasb@Luke:14:8" @Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

nasb@Luke:14:9" @When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!'

nasb@Luke:14:10" @In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

nasb@Luke:14:11 @And He said, "A man had two sons.

nasb@Luke:14:12" @The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.' So he divided his wealth between them.

nasb@Luke:14:13" @And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

nasb@Luke:14:14" @Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.

nasb@Luke:14:15" @So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

nasb@Luke:14:16" @And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

nasb@Luke:14:17" @But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!

nasb@Luke:14:18 @'I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

nasb@Luke:14:19 @I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men."'

nasb@Luke:14:20" @So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

nasb@Luke:14:21" @And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

nasb@Luke:14:22" @But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

nasb@Luke:14:23 @and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

nasb@Luke:14:24 @for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

nasb@Luke:14:25" @Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

nasb@Luke:14:26" @And he summoned one of the servants and began inquiring what these things could be.

nasb@Luke:14:27" @And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.'

nasb@Luke:14:28" @But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

nasb@Luke:14:29" @But he answered and said to his father, 'Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

nasb@Luke:14:30 @but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

nasb@Luke:14:31" @And he said to him, 'Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours.

nasb@Luke:14:32 @'But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.'"

nasb@Luke:14:16 @Now He was also saying to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.

nasb@Luke:14:2" @And he called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

nasb@Luke:14:3" @The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

nasb@Luke:14:4 @'I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'

nasb@Luke:14:5" @And he summoned each one of his master's debtors, and he began saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

nasb@Luke:14:6" @And he said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

nasb@Luke:14:7" @Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

nasb@Luke:14:8" @And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

nasb@Luke:14:9" @And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

nasb@Luke:14:10" @ He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

nasb@Luke:14:11" @Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

nasb@Luke:14:12" @And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

nasb@Luke:14:13" @ No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

nasb@Luke:14:14 @Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.

nasb@Luke:14:15 @And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.

nasb@Luke:14:16" @ The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

nasb@Luke:14:17" @ But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

nasb@Luke:14:18" @ Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

nasb@Luke:14:19" @Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

nasb@Luke:14:20" @And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,

nasb@Luke:14:21 @and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

nasb@Luke:14:22" @Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

nasb@Luke:14:23" @In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

nasb@Luke:14:24" @And he cried out and said, ' Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

nasb@Luke:14:25" @But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

nasb@Luke:14:26 @'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

nasb@Luke:14:27" @And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house--

nasb@Luke:14:28 @for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

nasb@Luke:14:29" @But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.'

nasb@Luke:14:30" @But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!'

nasb@Luke:14:31" @But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"

nasb@Luke:14:17 @He said to His disciples, " It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!

nasb@Luke:14:2" @ It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.

nasb@Luke:14:3" @Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

nasb@Luke:14:4" @And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."

nasb@Luke:14:5 @The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

nasb@Luke:14:6 @And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea'; and it would obey you.

nasb@Luke:14:7" @Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down to eat'?

nasb@Luke:14:8" @But will he not say to him, ' Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink'?

nasb@Luke:14:9" @He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?

nasb@Luke:14:10" @So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.'"

nasb@Luke:14:11 @While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

nasb@Luke:14:12 @As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him;

nasb@Luke:14:13 @and they raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

nasb@Luke:14:14 @When He saw them, He said to them, " Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they were going, they were cleansed.

nasb@Luke:14:15 @Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

nasb@Luke:14:16 @and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan.

nasb@Luke:14:17 @Then Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine--where are they?

nasb@Luke:14:18" @Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?"

nasb@Luke:14:19 @And He said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has made you well."

nasb@Luke:14:20 @Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;

nasb@Luke:14:21 @nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

nasb@Luke:14:22 @And He said to the disciples, " The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

nasb@Luke:14:23" @ They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.

nasb@Luke:14:24" @ For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.

nasb@Luke:14:25" @ But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

nasb@Luke:14:26" @ And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man-

nasb@Luke:14:27 @they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

nasb@Luke:14:28" @It was the same as happened in the days of Lot- they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

nasb@Luke:14:29 @but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

nasb@Luke:14:30" @It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

nasb@Luke:14:31" @On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.

nasb@Luke:14:32" @ Remember Lot's wife.

nasb@Luke:14:33" @ Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

nasb@Luke:14:34" @I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

nasb@Luke:14:35" @ There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

nasb@Luke:14:36 @[" Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left."]

nasb@Luke:14:37 @And answering they said to Him, "Where, LordNULL" And He said to them, " Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."

nasb@Luke:15:1 @Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

nasb@Luke:15:2 @saying, "In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.

nasb@Luke:15:3" @There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.'

nasb@Luke:15:4" @For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

nasb@Luke:15:5 @yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.'"

nasb@Luke:15:6 @And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said;

nasb@Luke:15:7 @now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

nasb@Luke:15:8" @I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"

nasb@Luke:15:9 @And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt-

nasb@Luke:15:10" @Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

nasb@Luke:15:11" @The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself- 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

nasb@Luke:15:12 @'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'

nasb@Luke:15:13" @But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'

nasb@Luke:15:14" @I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

nasb@Luke:15:15 @And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them.

nasb@Luke:15:16 @But Jesus called for them, saying, "Permit the children to come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

nasb@Luke:15:17" @Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."

nasb@Luke:15:18 @A ruler questioned Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

nasb@Luke:15:19 @And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

nasb@Luke:15:20" @You know the commandments, ' DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.'"

nasb@Luke:15:21 @And he said, "All these things I have kept from my youth."

nasb@Luke:15:22 @When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack; sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me."

nasb@Luke:15:23 @But when he had heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich.

nasb@Luke:15:24 @And Jesus looked at him and said, " How hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!

nasb@Luke:15:25" @For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

nasb@Luke:15:26 @They who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

nasb@Luke:15:27 @But He said, " The things that are impossible with people are possible with God."

nasb@Luke:15:28 @Peter said, "Behold, we have left our own homes and followed You."

nasb@Luke:15:29 @And He said to them, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

nasb@Luke:15:30 @who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life."

nasb@Luke:15:31 @Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

nasb@Luke:15:32" @ For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon,

nasb@Luke:15:33 @and after they have scourged Him, they will kill Him; and the third day He will rise again."

nasb@Luke:15:34 @But the disciples understood none of these things, and the meaning of this statement was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said.

nasb@Luke:15:35 @As Jesus was approaching Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

nasb@Luke:15:36 @Now hearing a crowd going by, he began to inquire what this was.

nasb@Luke:15:37 @They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

nasb@Luke:15:38 @And he called out, saying, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

nasb@Luke:15:39 @Those who led the way were sternly telling him to be quiet; but he kept crying out all the more, " Son of David, have mercy on me!"

nasb@Luke:15:40 @And Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to Him; and when he came near, He questioned him,

nasb@Luke:15:41" @What do you want Me to do for you?" And he said, "Lord, I want to regain my sight!"

nasb@Luke:15:42 @And Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has made you well."

nasb@Luke:15:43 @Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they gave praise to God.

nasb@Luke:16:1 @He entered Jericho and was passing through.

nasb@Luke:16:2 @And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich.

nasb@Luke:16:3 @Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

nasb@Luke:16:4 @So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.

nasb@Luke:16:5 @When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

nasb@Luke:16:6 @And he hurried and came down and received Him gladly.

nasb@Luke:16:7 @When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

nasb@Luke:16:8 @Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much."

nasb@Luke:16:9 @And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham.

nasb@Luke:16:10" @For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

nasb@Luke:16:11 @While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

nasb@Luke:16:12 @So He said, " A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

nasb@Luke:16:13" @And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business with this until I come back.'

nasb@Luke:16:14" @But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

nasb@Luke:16:15" @When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

nasb@Luke:16:16" @The first appeared, saying, 'Master, your mina has made ten minas more.'

nasb@Luke:16:17" @And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.'

nasb@Luke:16:18" @The second came, saying, 'Your mina, master, has made five minas.'

nasb@Luke:16:19" @And he said to him also, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

nasb@Luke:16:20" @Another came, saying, 'Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief;

nasb@Luke:16:21 @for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.'

nasb@Luke:16:22" @He said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

nasb@Luke:16:23 @'Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?'

nasb@Luke:16:24" @Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.'

nasb@Luke:16:25" @And they said to him, 'Master, he has ten minas already.'

nasb@Luke:16:26" @ I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

nasb@Luke:16:27" @But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence."

nasb@Luke:16:28 @After He had said these things, He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:16:29 @When He approached Bethphage and Bethany, near the mount that is called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples,

nasb@Luke:16:30 @saying, "Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

nasb@Luke:16:31" @If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say, 'The Lord has need of it.'"

nasb@Luke:16:32 @So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them.

nasb@Luke:16:33 @As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

nasb@Luke:16:34 @They said, "The Lord has need of it."

nasb@Luke:16:35 @They brought it to Jesus, and they threw their coats on the colt and put Jesus on it.

nasb@Luke:16:36 @As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road.

nasb@Luke:16:37 @As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

nasb@Luke:16:38 @shouting- " BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

nasb@Luke:16:39 @Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."

nasb@Luke:16:40 @But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"

nasb@Luke:16:41 @When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

nasb@Luke:16:42 @saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

nasb@Luke:16:43" @For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

nasb@Luke:16:44 @and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

nasb@Luke:16:45 @Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,

nasb@Luke:16:47 @And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

nasb@Luke:16:48 @and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.

nasb@Luke:17:1 @On one of the days while He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders confronted Him,

nasb@Luke:17:2 @and they spoke, saying to Him, "Tell us by what authority You are doing these things, or who is the one who gave You this authority?"

nasb@Luke:17:3 @Jesus answered and said to them, "I will also ask you a question, and you tell Me-

nasb@Luke:17:4" @Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?"

nasb@Luke:17:5 @They reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

nasb@Luke:17:6" @But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."

nasb@Luke:17:7 @So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

nasb@Luke:17:8 @And Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

nasb@Luke:17:9 @And He began to tell the people this parable- "A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

nasb@Luke:17:10" @At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

nasb@Luke:17:11" @And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed.

nasb@Luke:17:12" @And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out.

nasb@Luke:17:13" @The owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

nasb@Luke:17:14" @But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, 'This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.'

nasb@Luke:17:15" @So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

nasb@Luke:17:16" @He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, " May it never be!"

nasb@Luke:17:17 @But Jesus looked at them and said, "What then is this that is written- ' THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone'?

nasb@Luke:17:18" @ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust."

nasb@Luke:17:19 @The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

nasb@Luke:17:20 @So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so that they could deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

nasb@Luke:17:21 @They questioned Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that You speak and teach correctly, and You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth.

nasb@Luke:17:22" @Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

nasb@Luke:17:23 @But He detected their trickery and said to them,

nasb@Luke:17:24" @Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar's."

nasb@Luke:17:25 @And He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

nasb@Luke:17:26 @And they were unable to catch Him in a saying in the presence of the people; and being amazed at His answer, they became silent.

nasb@Luke:17:27 @Now there came to Him some of the Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection),

nasb@Luke:17:28 @and they questioned Him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that IF A MAN'S BROTHER DIES, having a wife, AND HE IS CHILDLESS, HIS BROTHER SHOULD MARRY THE WIFE AND RAISE UP CHILDREN TO HIS BROTHER.

nasb@Luke:17:29" @Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

nasb@Luke:17:30 @and the second

nasb@Luke:17:31 @and the third married her; and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.

nasb@Luke:17:32" @Finally the woman died also.

nasb@Luke:17:33" @In the resurrection therefore, which one's wife will she be? For all seven had married her."

nasb@Luke:17:34 @Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

nasb@Luke:17:35 @but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

nasb@Luke:17:36 @for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

nasb@Luke:17:37" @But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the burning bush, where he calls the Lord THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.

nasb@Luke:17:38" @ Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him."

nasb@Luke:17:39 @Some of the scribes answered and said, "Teacher, You have spoken well."

nasb@Luke:17:40 @For they did not have courage to question Him any longer about anything.

nasb@Luke:17:41 @Then He said to them, "How is it that they say the Christ is David's son?

nasb@Luke:17:42" @For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ' THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

nasb@Luke:17:43 @UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

nasb@Luke:17:44" @Therefore David calls Him 'Lord,' and how is He his son?"

nasb@Luke:17:45 @And while all the people were listening, He said to the disciples,

nasb@Luke:17:46" @Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets,

nasb@Luke:17:47 @who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

nasb@Luke:18:1 @And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

nasb@Luke:18:2 @And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.

nasb@Luke:18:3 @And He said, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them;

nasb@Luke:18:4 @for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on."

nasb@Luke:18:5 @And while some were talking about the temple, that it was adorned with beautiful stones and votive gifts, He said,

nasb@Luke:18:6" @As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down."

nasb@Luke:18:7 @They questioned Him, saying, "Teacher, when therefore will these things happen? And what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?"

nasb@Luke:18:8 @And He said, "See to it that you are not misled; for many will come in My name, saying, ' I am He,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

nasb@Luke:18:9" @When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not follow immediately."

nasb@Luke:18:10 @Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,

nasb@Luke:18:11 @and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

nasb@Luke:18:12" @But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for My name's sake.

nasb@Luke:18:13" @ It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.

nasb@Luke:18:14" @ So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves;

nasb@Luke:18:15 @for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.

nasb@Luke:18:16" @But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

nasb@Luke:18:17 @and you will be hated by all because of My name.

nasb@Luke:18:18" @Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

nasb@Luke:18:19" @ By your endurance you will gain your lives.

nasb@Luke:18:20" @But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

nasb@Luke:18:21" @Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;

nasb@Luke:18:22 @because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

nasb@Luke:18:23" @Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;

nasb@Luke:18:24 @and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

nasb@Luke:18:25" @There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

nasb@Luke:18:26 @men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

nasb@Luke:18:27" @ Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD with power and great glory.

nasb@Luke:18:28" @But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."

nasb@Luke:18:29 @Then He told them a parable- "Behold the fig tree and all the trees;

nasb@Luke:18:30 @as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near.

nasb@Luke:18:31" @So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near.

nasb@Luke:18:32" @Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.

nasb@Luke:18:33" @ Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

nasb@Luke:18:34" @ Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

nasb@Luke:18:35 @for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.

nasb@Luke:18:36" @But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."

nasb@Luke:18:37 @Now during the day He was teaching in the temple, but at evening He would go out and spend the night on the mount that is called Olivet.

nasb@Luke:18:38 @And all the people would get up early in the morning to come to Him in the temple to listen to Him.

nasb@Luke:19:1 @Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

nasb@Luke:19:2 @The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

nasb@Luke:19:3 @And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, belonging to the number of the twelve.

nasb@Luke:19:4 @And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers how he might betray Him to them.

nasb@Luke:19:5 @They were glad and agreed to give him money.

nasb@Luke:19:6 @So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.

nasb@Luke:19:7 @Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

nasb@Luke:19:8 @And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it."

nasb@Luke:19:9 @They said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare it?"

nasb@Luke:19:10 @And He said to them, "When you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house that he enters.

nasb@Luke:19:11" @And you shall say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"'

nasb@Luke:19:12" @And he will show you a large, furnished upper room; prepare it there."

nasb@Luke:19:13 @And they left and found everything just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

nasb@Luke:19:14 @When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him.

nasb@Luke:19:15 @And He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

nasb@Luke:19:16 @for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

nasb@Luke:19:17 @And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, "Take this and share it among yourselves;

nasb@Luke:19:18 @for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes."

nasb@Luke:19:19 @And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

nasb@Luke:19:20 @And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

nasb@Luke:19:21" @ But behold, the hand of the one betraying Me is with Mine on the table.

nasb@Luke:19:22" @For indeed, the Son of Man is going as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!"

nasb@Luke:19:23 @And they began to discuss among themselves which one of them it might be who was going to do this thing.

nasb@Luke:19:24 @And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

nasb@Luke:19:25 @And He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called 'Benefactors.'

nasb@Luke:19:26" @But it is not this way with you, but the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant.

nasb@Luke:19:27" @For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

nasb@Luke:19:28" @You are those who have stood by Me in My trials;

nasb@Luke:19:29 @and just as My Father has granted Me a kingdom, I grant you

nasb@Luke:19:30 @that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

nasb@Luke:19:31" @Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat;

nasb@Luke:19:32 @but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers."

nasb@Luke:19:33 @But he said to Him, "Lord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!"

nasb@Luke:19:34 @And He said, "I say to you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me."

nasb@Luke:19:35 @And He said to them, " When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?" They said, "No, nothing."

nasb@Luke:19:36 @And He said to them, "But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one.

nasb@Luke:19:37" @For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, ' AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH TRANSGRESSORS'; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment."

nasb@Luke:19:38 @They said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." And He said to them, "It is enough."

nasb@Luke:19:39 @And He came out and proceeded as was His custom to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him.

nasb@Luke:19:40 @When He arrived at the place, He said to them, " Pray that you may not enter into temptation."

nasb@Luke:19:41 @And He withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,

nasb@Luke:19:42 @saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done."

nasb@Luke:19:43 @Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him.

nasb@Luke:19:44 @And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

nasb@Luke:19:45 @When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow,

nasb@Luke:19:46 @and said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

nasb@Luke:19:47 @While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was preceding them; and he approached Jesus to kiss Him.

nasb@Luke:19:48 @But Jesus said to him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

nasb@Luke:19:49 @When those who were around Him saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"

nasb@Luke:19:50 @And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

nasb@Luke:19:51 @But Jesus answered and said, "Stop! No more of this." And He touched his ear and healed him.

nasb@Luke:19:52 @Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come against Him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against a robber?

nasb@Luke:19:53" @While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours."

nasb@Luke:19:54 @Having arrested Him, they led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.

nasb@Luke:19:55 @After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.

nasb@Luke:19:56 @And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, "This man was with Him too."

nasb@Luke:19:57 @But he denied it, saying, "Woman, I do not know Him."

nasb@Luke:19:58 @A little later, another saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

nasb@Luke:19:59 @After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, "Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too."

nasb@Luke:19:60 @But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

nasb@Luke:19:61 @The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, " Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times."

nasb@Luke:19:62 @And he went out and wept bitterly.

nasb@Luke:19:63 @Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,

nasb@Luke:19:64 @and they blindfolded Him and were asking Him, saying, " Prophesy, who is the one who hit You?"

nasb@Luke:19:65 @And they were saying many other things against Him, blaspheming.

nasb@Luke:19:66 @When it was day, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their council chamber, saying,

nasb@Luke:19:67" @ If You are the Christ, tell us." But He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe;

nasb@Luke:19:68 @and if I ask a question, you will not answer.

nasb@Luke:19:69" @ But from now on THE SON OF MAN WILL BE SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND of the power OF GOD."

nasb@Luke:19:70 @And they all said, "Are You the Son of God, then?" And He said to them, " Yes, I am."

nasb@Luke:19:71 @Then they said, "What further need do we have of testimonyNULL For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth."

nasb@Luke:20:1 @Then the whole body of them got up and brought Him before Pilate.

nasb@Luke:20:2 @And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

nasb@Luke:20:3 @So Pilate asked Him, saying, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answered him and said, " It is as you say."

nasb@Luke:20:4 @Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, " I find no guilt in this man."

nasb@Luke:20:5 @But they kept on insisting, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching all over Judea, starting from Galilee even as far as this place."

nasb@Luke:20:6 @When Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

nasb@Luke:20:7 @And when he learned that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself also was in Jerusalem at that time.

nasb@Luke:20:8 @Now Herod was very glad when he saw Jesus; for he had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had been hearing about Him and was hoping to see some sign performed by Him.

nasb@Luke:20:9 @And he questioned Him at some length; but He answered him nothing.

nasb@Luke:20:10 @And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there, accusing Him vehemently.

nasb@Luke:20:11 @And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

nasb@Luke:20:12 @Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other.

nasb@Luke:20:13 @Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

nasb@Luke:20:14 @and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one who incites the people to rebellion, and behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no guilt in this man regarding the charges which you make against Him.

nasb@Luke:20:15" @No, nor has Herod, for he sent Him back to us; and behold, nothing deserving death has been done by Him.

nasb@Luke:20:16" @Therefore I will punish Him and release Him."

nasb@Luke:20:17 @[ Now he was obliged to release to them at the feast one prisoner.]

nasb@Luke:20:18 @But they cried out all together, saying, " Away with this man, and release for us Barabbas!"

nasb@Luke:20:19 @(He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city, and for murder.)

nasb@Luke:20:20 @Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,

nasb@Luke:20:21 @but they kept on calling out, saying, "Crucify, crucify Him!"

nasb@Luke:20:22 @And he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death; therefore I will punish Him and release Him."

nasb@Luke:20:23 @But they were insistent, with loud voices asking that He be crucified. And their voices began to prevail.

nasb@Luke:20:24 @And Pilate pronounced sentence that their demand be granted.

nasb@Luke:20:25 @And he released the man they were asking for who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, but he delivered Jesus to their will.

nasb@Luke:20:26 @When they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.

nasb@Luke:20:27 @And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

nasb@Luke:20:28 @But Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

nasb@Luke:20:29" @For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ' Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

nasb@Luke:20:30" @Then they will begin TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, 'FALL ON US,' AND TO THE HILLS, 'COVER US.'

nasb@Luke:20:31" @For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

nasb@Luke:20:32 @Two others also, who were criminals, were being led away to be put to death with Him.

nasb@Luke:20:33 @When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

nasb@Luke:20:34 @But Jesus was saying, " Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.

nasb@Luke:20:35 @And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One."

nasb@Luke:20:36 @The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

nasb@Luke:20:37 @and saying, " If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

nasb@Luke:20:38 @Now there was also an inscription above Him, " THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

nasb@Luke:20:39 @One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!"

nasb@Luke:20:40 @But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

nasb@Luke:20:41" @And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong."

nasb@Luke:20:42 @And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!"

nasb@Luke:20:43 @And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise."

nasb@Luke:20:44 @It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour,

nasb@Luke:20:45 @because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

nasb@Luke:20:46 @And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT." Having said this, He breathed His last.

nasb@Luke:20:47 @Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, "Certainly this man was innocent."

nasb@Luke:20:48 @And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

nasb@Luke:20:49 @And all His acquaintances and the women who accompanied Him from Galilee were standing at a distance, seeing these things.

nasb@Luke:20:50 @And a man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council, a good and righteous man

nasb@Luke:20:51 @(he had not consented to their plan and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God;

nasb@Luke:20:52 @this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

nasb@Luke:20:53 @And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain.

nasb@Luke:20:54 @It was the preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

nasb@Luke:20:55 @Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

nasb@Luke:20:56 @Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

nasb@Luke:21:1 @But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

nasb@Luke:21:2 @And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

nasb@Luke:21:3 @but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

nasb@Luke:21:4 @While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

nasb@Luke:21:5 @and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

nasb@Luke:21:6" @He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

nasb@Luke:21:7 @saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again."

nasb@Luke:21:8 @And they remembered His words,

nasb@Luke:21:9 @and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

nasb@Luke:21:10 @Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles.

nasb@Luke:21:11 @But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe them.

nasb@Luke:21:12 @But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.

nasb@Luke:21:13 @And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:21:14 @And they were talking with each other about all these things which had taken place.

nasb@Luke:21:15 @While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them.

nasb@Luke:21:16 @But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him.

nasb@Luke:21:17 @And He said to them, "What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?" And they stood still, looking sad.

nasb@Luke:21:18 @One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, "Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?"

nasb@Luke:21:19 @And He said to them, "What things?" And they said to Him, "The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people,

nasb@Luke:21:20 @and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him.

nasb@Luke:21:21" @But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.

nasb@Luke:21:22" @But also some women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning,

nasb@Luke:21:23 @and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

nasb@Luke:21:24" @Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see."

nasb@Luke:21:25 @And He said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

nasb@Luke:21:26" @ Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?"

nasb@Luke:21:27 @Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

nasb@Luke:21:28 @And they approached the village where they were going, and He acted as though He were going farther.

nasb@Luke:21:29 @But they urged Him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.

nasb@Luke:21:30 @When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

nasb@Luke:21:31 @Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

nasb@Luke:21:32 @They said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?"

nasb@Luke:21:33 @And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them,

nasb@Luke:21:34 @saying, " The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon."

nasb@Luke:21:35 @They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

nasb@Luke:21:36 @While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."

nasb@Luke:21:37 @But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.

nasb@Luke:21:38 @And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

nasb@Luke:21:39" @ See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

nasb@Luke:21:40 @And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

nasb@Luke:21:41 @While they still could not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He said to them, " Have you anything here to eat?"

nasb@Luke:21:42 @They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish;

nasb@Luke:21:43 @and He took it and ate it before them.

nasb@Luke:21:44 @Now He said to them, " These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."

nasb@Luke:21:45 @Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

nasb@Luke:21:46 @and He said to them, " Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

nasb@Luke:21:47 @and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

nasb@Luke:21:48" @You are witnesses of these things.

nasb@Luke:21:49" @And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

nasb@Luke:21:50 @And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them.

nasb@Luke:21:51 @While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

nasb@Luke:21:52 @And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

nasb@Luke:21:53 @and were continually in the temple praising God.

nasb@John:1:1 @In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

nasb@John:1:2 @He was in the beginning with God.

nasb@John:1:3 @All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

nasb@John:1:4 @In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

nasb@John:1:5 @The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

nasb@John:1:6 @There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.

nasb@John:1:7 @He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

nasb@John:1:8 @He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

nasb@John:1:9 @There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

nasb@John:1:10 @He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

nasb@John:1:11 @He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

nasb@John:1:12 @But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

nasb@John:1:13 @who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

nasb@John:1:14 @And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

nasb@John:1:15 @John testified about Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, ' He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.'"

nasb@John:1:16 @For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

nasb@John:1:17 @For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

nasb@John:1:18 @No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

nasb@John:1:19 @This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

nasb@John:1:20 @And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, " I am not the Christ."

nasb@John:1:21 @They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No."

nasb@John:1:22 @Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?"

nasb@John:1:23 @He said, "I am A VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

nasb@John:1:24 @Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

nasb@John:1:25 @They asked him, and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

nasb@John:1:26 @John answered them saying, " I baptize in water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.

nasb@John:1:27" @It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."

nasb@John:1:28 @These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

nasb@John:1:29 @The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

nasb@John:1:30" @This is He on behalf of whom I said, ' After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.'

nasb@John:1:31" @I did not recognize Him, but so that He might be manifested to Israel, I came baptizing in water."

nasb@John:1:32 @John testified saying, " I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.

nasb@John:1:33" @I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

nasb@John:1:34" @I myself have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."

nasb@John:1:35 @Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

nasb@John:1:36 @and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

nasb@John:1:37 @The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

nasb@John:1:38 @And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" They said to Him, " Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?"

nasb@John:1:39 @He said to them, "Come, and you will see." So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

nasb@John:1:40 @One of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

nasb@John:1:41 @He found first his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which translated means Christ).

nasb@John:1:42 @He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

nasb@John:1:43 @The next day He purposed to go into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, " Follow Me."

nasb@John:1:44 @Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

nasb@John:1:45 @Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

nasb@John:1:46 @Nathanael said to him, " Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

nasb@John:1:47 @Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"

nasb@John:1:48 @Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

nasb@John:1:49 @Nathanael answered Him, " Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel."

nasb@John:1:50 @Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these."

nasb@John:1:51 @And He said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

nasb@John:2:1 @On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

nasb@John:2:2 @and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.

nasb@John:2:3 @When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."

nasb@John:2:4 @And Jesus said to her, " Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come."

nasb@John:2:5 @His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."

nasb@John:2:6 @Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.

nasb@John:2:7 @Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

nasb@John:2:8 @And He said to them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." So they took it to him.

nasb@John:2:9 @When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom,

nasb@John:2:10 @and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

nasb@John:2:11 @This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

nasb@John:2:12 @After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

nasb@John:2:13 @The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

nasb@John:2:14 @And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

nasb@John:2:15 @And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

nasb@John:2:16 @and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."

nasb@John:2:17 @His disciples remembered that it was written, " ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."

nasb@John:2:18 @The Jews then said to Him, " What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?"

nasb@John:2:19 @Jesus answered them, " Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

nasb@John:2:20 @The Jews then said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"

nasb@John:2:21 @But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

nasb@John:2:22 @So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.

nasb@John:2:23 @Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing.

nasb@John:2:24 @But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men,

nasb@John:2:25 @and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

nasb@John:3:1 @Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

nasb@John:3:2 @this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, " Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

nasb@John:3:3 @Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

nasb@John:3:4 @Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

nasb@John:3:5 @Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

nasb@John:3:6" @ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

nasb@John:3:7" @Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

nasb@John:3:8" @ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

nasb@John:3:9 @Nicodemus said to Him, "How can these things be?"

nasb@John:3:10 @Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?

nasb@John:3:11" @Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

nasb@John:3:12" @If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

nasb@John:3:13" @ No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven- the Son of Man.

nasb@John:3:14" @As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

nasb@John:3:15 @so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

nasb@John:3:16" @For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

nasb@John:3:17" @For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

nasb@John:3:18" @ He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

nasb@John:3:19" @This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

nasb@John:3:20" @ For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

nasb@John:3:21" @But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."

nasb@John:3:22 @After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He was spending time with them and baptizing.

nasb@John:3:23 @John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized--

nasb@John:3:24 @for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

nasb@John:3:25 @Therefore there arose a discussion on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification.

nasb@John:3:26 @And they came to John and said to him, " Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him."

nasb@John:3:27 @John answered and said, " A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

nasb@John:3:28" @You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ' I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent ahead of Him.'

nasb@John:3:29" @He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

nasb@John:3:30" @He must increase, but I must decrease.

nasb@John:3:31" @ He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

nasb@John:3:32" @What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

nasb@John:3:33" @He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.

nasb@John:3:34" @For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.

nasb@John:3:35" @ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

nasb@John:3:36" @He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

nasb@John:4:1 @Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

nasb@John:4:2 @(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

nasb@John:4:3 @He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

nasb@John:4:4 @And He had to pass through Samaria.

nasb@John:4:5 @So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

nasb@John:4:6 @and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

nasb@John:4:7 @There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

nasb@John:4:8 @For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

nasb@John:4:9 @Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

nasb@John:4:10 @Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

nasb@John:4:11 @She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

nasb@John:4:12" @You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?"

nasb@John:4:13 @Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

nasb@John:4:14 @but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

nasb@John:4:15 @The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw."

nasb@John:4:16 @He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

nasb@John:4:17 @The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';

nasb@John:4:18 @for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly."

nasb@John:4:19 @The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

nasb@John:4:20" @ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

nasb@John:4:21 @Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

nasb@John:4:22" @ You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

nasb@John:4:23" @But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

nasb@John:4:24" @God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

nasb@John:4:25 @The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming ( He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us."

nasb@John:4:26 @Jesus said to her, " I who speak to you am He."

nasb@John:4:27 @At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why do You speak with her?"

nasb@John:4:28 @So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men,

nasb@John:4:29" @Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?"

nasb@John:4:30 @They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

nasb@John:4:31 @Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, " Rabbi, eat."

nasb@John:4:32 @But He said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

nasb@John:4:33 @So the disciples were saying to one another, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?"

nasb@John:4:34 @Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

nasb@John:4:35" @Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

nasb@John:4:36" @Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

nasb@John:4:37" @For in this case the saying is true, ' One sows and another reaps.'

nasb@John:4:38" @I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

nasb@John:4:39 @From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, " He told me all the things that I have done."

nasb@John:4:40 @So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

nasb@John:4:41 @Many more believed because of His word;

nasb@John:4:42 @and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world."

nasb@John:4:43 @After the two days He went forth from there into Galilee.

nasb@John:4:44 @For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

nasb@John:4:45 @So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

nasb@John:4:46 @Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

nasb@John:4:47 @When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

nasb@John:4:48 @So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe."

nasb@John:4:49 @The royal official said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

nasb@John:4:50 @Jesus said to him, " Go; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

nasb@John:4:51 @As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was living.

nasb@John:4:52 @So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

nasb@John:4:53 @So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives"; and he himself believed and his whole household.

nasb@John:4:54 @This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.

nasb@John:5:1 @After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

nasb@John:5:2 @Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

nasb@John:5:3 @In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [ waiting for the moving of the waters;

nasb@John:5:4 @for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

nasb@John:5:5 @A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

nasb@John:5:6 @When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"

nasb@John:5:7 @The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

nasb@John:5:8 @Jesus said to him, " Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

nasb@John:5:9 @Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

nasb@John:5:10 @So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

nasb@John:5:11 @But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"

nasb@John:5:12 @They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"

nasb@John:5:13 @But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

nasb@John:5:14 @Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you."

nasb@John:5:15 @The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

nasb@John:5:16 @For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

nasb@John:5:17 @But He answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."

nasb@John:5:18 @For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

nasb@John:5:19 @Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

nasb@John:5:20" @ For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.

nasb@John:5:21" @For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

nasb@John:5:22" @For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

nasb@John:5:23 @so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

nasb@John:5:24" @Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

nasb@John:5:25" @Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

nasb@John:5:26" @For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

nasb@John:5:27 @and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

nasb@John:5:28" @Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

nasb@John:5:29 @and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

nasb@John:5:30" @ I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

nasb@John:5:31" @ If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.

nasb@John:5:32" @There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.

nasb@John:5:33" @You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

nasb@John:5:34" @But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

nasb@John:5:35" @He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

nasb@John:5:36" @But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish--the very works that I do--testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.

nasb@John:5:37" @And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

nasb@John:5:38" @You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.

nasb@John:5:39" @ You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

nasb@John:5:40 @and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

nasb@John:5:41" @ I do not receive glory from men;

nasb@John:5:42 @but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

nasb@John:5:43" @I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

nasb@John:5:44" @How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?

nasb@John:5:45" @Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

nasb@John:5:46" @For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

nasb@John:5:47" @But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My wordsNULL"

nasb@John:6:1 @After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).

nasb@John:6:2 @A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick.

nasb@John:6:3 @Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down with His disciples.

nasb@John:6:4 @Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

nasb@John:6:5 @Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?"

nasb@John:6:6 @This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to do.

nasb@John:6:7 @Philip answered Him, " Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little."

nasb@John:6:8 @One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

nasb@John:6:9" @There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?"

nasb@John:6:10 @Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

nasb@John:6:11 @Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish as much as they wanted.

nasb@John:6:12 @When they were filled, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost."

nasb@John:6:13 @So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

nasb@John:6:14 @Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

nasb@John:6:15 @So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.

nasb@John:6:16 @Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

nasb@John:6:17 @and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

nasb@John:6:18 @The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.

nasb@John:6:19 @Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened.

nasb@John:6:20 @But He said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid."

nasb@John:6:21 @So they were willing to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

nasb@John:6:22 @The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.

nasb@John:6:23 @There came other small boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

nasb@John:6:24 @So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

nasb@John:6:25 @When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, " Rabbi, when did You get here?"

nasb@John:6:26 @Jesus answered them and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

nasb@John:6:27" @Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

nasb@John:6:28 @Therefore they said to Him, "What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?"

nasb@John:6:29 @Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent."

nasb@John:6:30 @So they said to Him, " What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?

nasb@John:6:31" @ Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ' HE GAVE THEM BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN TO EAT.'"

nasb@John:6:32 @Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

nasb@John:6:33" @For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

nasb@John:6:34 @Then they said to Him, "Lord, always give us this bread."

nasb@John:6:35 @Jesus said to them, " I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

nasb@John:6:36" @But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

nasb@John:6:37" @ All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

nasb@John:6:38" @For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

nasb@John:6:39" @This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

nasb@John:6:40" @For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."

nasb@John:6:41 @Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

nasb@John:6:42 @They were saying, " Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ' I have come down out of heaven'?"

nasb@John:6:43 @Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble among yourselves.

nasb@John:6:44" @No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

nasb@John:6:45" @It is written in the prophets, ' AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

nasb@John:6:46" @ Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

nasb@John:6:47" @Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

nasb@John:6:48" @ I am the bread of life.

nasb@John:6:49" @ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

nasb@John:6:50" @This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

nasb@John:6:51" @ I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."

nasb@John:6:52 @Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"

nasb@John:6:53 @So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

nasb@John:6:54" @He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

nasb@John:6:55" @For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

nasb@John:6:56" @He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

nasb@John:6:57" @As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

nasb@John:6:58" @This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever."

nasb@John:6:59 @These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

nasb@John:6:60 @Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, " This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?"

nasb@John:6:61 @But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

nasb@John:6:62" @What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

nasb@John:6:63" @ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

nasb@John:6:64" @But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

nasb@John:6:65 @And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father."

nasb@John:6:66 @As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

nasb@John:6:67 @So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?"

nasb@John:6:68 @Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

nasb@John:6:69" @We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God."

nasb@John:6:70 @Jesus answered them, " Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?"

nasb@John:6:71 @Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him.

nasb@John:7:1 @After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

nasb@John:7:2 @Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

nasb@John:7:3 @Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.

nasb@John:7:4" @For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world."

nasb@John:7:5 @For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

nasb@John:7:6 @So Jesus said to them, " My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.

nasb@John:7:7" @ The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

nasb@John:7:8" @Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come."

nasb@John:7:9 @Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.

nasb@John:7:10 @But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.

nasb@John:7:11 @So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, "Where is He?"

nasb@John:7:12 @There was much grumbling among the crowds concerning Him; some were saying, "He is a good man"; others were saying, "No, on the contrary, He leads the people astray."

nasb@John:7:13 @Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

nasb@John:7:14 @But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach.

nasb@John:7:15 @The Jews then were astonished, saying, "How has this man become learned, having never been educated?"

nasb@John:7:16 @So Jesus answered them and said, " My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

nasb@John:7:17" @ If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

nasb@John:7:18" @He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

nasb@John:7:19" @ Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"

nasb@John:7:20 @The crowd answered, " You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?"

nasb@John:7:21 @Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel.

nasb@John:7:22" @For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

nasb@John:7:23" @ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

nasb@John:7:24" @Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."

nasb@John:7:25 @So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, "Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?

nasb@John:7:26" @Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they?

nasb@John:7:27" @However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from."

nasb@John:7:28 @Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, " You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

nasb@John:7:29" @ I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."

nasb@John:7:30 @So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

nasb@John:7:31 @But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, " When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?"

nasb@John:7:32 @The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize Him.

nasb@John:7:33 @Therefore Jesus said, " For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.

nasb@John:7:34" @ You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come."

nasb@John:7:35 @The Jews then said to one another, " Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?

nasb@John:7:36" @What is this statement that He said, ' You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"

nasb@John:7:37 @Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, " If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

nasb@John:7:38" @He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

nasb@John:7:39 @But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

nasb@John:7:40 @Some of the people therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, "This certainly is the Prophet."

nasb@John:7:41 @Others were saying, "This is the Christ." Still others were saying, " Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

nasb@John:7:42" @Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

nasb@John:7:43 @So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

nasb@John:7:44 @Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

nasb@John:7:45 @The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

nasb@John:7:46 @The officers answered, " Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks."

nasb@John:7:47 @The Pharisees then answered them, " You have not also been led astray, have you?

nasb@John:7:48" @ No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

nasb@John:7:49" @But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed."

nasb@John:7:50 @Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them,

nasb@John:7:51" @ Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?"

nasb@John:7:52 @They answered him, " You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee."

nasb@John:7:53 @[ Everyone went to his home.

nasb@John:8:1 @But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

nasb@John:8:2 @Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them.

nasb@John:8:3 @The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,

nasb@John:8:4 @they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.

nasb@John:8:5" @Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?"

nasb@John:8:6 @They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

nasb@John:8:7 @But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, " He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

nasb@John:8:8 @Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

nasb@John:8:9 @When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.

nasb@John:8:10 @Straightening up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

nasb@John:8:11 @She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, " I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more."]

nasb@John:8:12 @Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, " I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

nasb@John:8:13 @So the Pharisees said to Him, " You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true."

nasb@John:8:14 @Jesus answered and said to them, " Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

nasb@John:8:15" @ You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.

nasb@John:8:16" @But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.

nasb@John:8:17" @Even in your law it has been written that the testimony of two men is true.

nasb@John:8:18" @I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me."

nasb@John:8:19 @So they were saying to Him, "Where is Your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My Father; if you knew Me, you would know My Father also."

nasb@John:8:20 @These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

nasb@John:8:21 @Then He said again to them, "I go away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come."

nasb@John:8:22 @So the Jews were saying, "Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, ' Where I am going, you cannot come'?"

nasb@John:8:23 @And He was saying to them, " You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

nasb@John:8:24" @Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

nasb@John:8:25 @So they were saying to Him, "Who are You?" Jesus said to them, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning?

nasb@John:8:26" @I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world."

nasb@John:8:27 @They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

nasb@John:8:28 @So Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.

nasb@John:8:29" @And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him."

nasb@John:8:30 @As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him.

nasb@John:8:31 @So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, " If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;

nasb@John:8:32 @and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

nasb@John:8:33 @They answered Him, " We are Abraham's descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, 'You will become free'?"

nasb@John:8:34 @Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

nasb@John:8:35" @ The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

nasb@John:8:36" @So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

nasb@John:8:37" @I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

nasb@John:8:38" @I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father."

nasb@John:8:39 @They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, " If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

nasb@John:8:40" @But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

nasb@John:8:41" @You are doing the deeds of your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father- God."

nasb@John:8:42 @Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

nasb@John:8:43" @Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

nasb@John:8:44" @ You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

nasb@John:8:45" @But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

nasb@John:8:46" @Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?

nasb@John:8:47" @ He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."

nasb@John:8:48 @The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

nasb@John:8:49 @Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

nasb@John:8:50" @But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges.

nasb@John:8:51" @Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death."

nasb@John:8:52 @The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.'

nasb@John:8:53" @Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to be?"

nasb@John:8:54 @Jesus answered, " If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God';

nasb@John:8:55 @and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

nasb@John:8:56" @ Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."

nasb@John:8:57 @So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"

nasb@John:8:58 @Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."

nasb@John:8:59 @Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.

nasb@John:9:1 @As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.

nasb@John:9:2 @And His disciples asked Him, " Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"

nasb@John:9:3 @Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

nasb@John:9:4" @We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

nasb@John:9:5" @While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

nasb@John:9:6 @When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

nasb@John:9:7 @and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

nasb@John:9:8 @Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?"

nasb@John:9:9 @Others were saying, "This is he," still others were saying, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the one."

nasb@John:9:10 @So they were saying to him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

nasb@John:9:11 @He answered, "The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went away and washed, and I received sight."

nasb@John:9:12 @They said to him, "Where is He?" He said, "I do not know."

nasb@John:9:13 @They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind.

nasb@John:9:14 @Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

nasb@John:9:15 @Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, "He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

nasb@John:9:16 @Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

nasb@John:9:17 @So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

nasb@John:9:18 @The Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

nasb@John:9:19 @and questioned them, saying, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

nasb@John:9:20 @His parents answered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

nasb@John:9:21 @but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself."

nasb@John:9:22 @His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

nasb@John:9:23 @For this reason his parents said, " He is of age; ask him."

nasb@John:9:24 @So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, " Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner."

nasb@John:9:25 @He then answered, "Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."

nasb@John:9:26 @So they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"

nasb@John:9:27 @He answered them, " I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?"

nasb@John:9:28 @They reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

nasb@John:9:29" @We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from."

nasb@John:9:30 @The man answered and said to them, "Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.

nasb@John:9:31" @We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

nasb@John:9:32" @Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

nasb@John:9:33" @ If this man were not from God, He could do nothing."

nasb@John:9:34 @They answered him, " You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" So they put him out.

nasb@John:9:35 @Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

nasb@John:9:36 @He answered, " Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?"

nasb@John:9:37 @Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him, and He is the one who is talking with you."

nasb@John:9:38 @And he said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshiped Him.

nasb@John:9:39 @And Jesus said, " For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."

nasb@John:9:40 @Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, " We are not blind too, are we?"

nasb@John:9:41 @Jesus said to them, " If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ' We see,' your sin remains.

nasb@John:9:10" @Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

nasb@John:9:2" @But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

nasb@John:9:3" @To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

nasb@John:9:4" @When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

nasb@John:9:5" @A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

nasb@John:9:6 @This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

nasb@John:9:7 @So Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

nasb@John:9:8" @All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

nasb@John:9:9" @ I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

nasb@John:9:10" @The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

nasb@John:9:11" @ I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

nasb@John:9:12" @He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

nasb@John:9:13" @He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

nasb@John:9:14" @ I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,

nasb@John:9:15 @even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

nasb@John:9:16" @I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

nasb@John:9:17" @For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

nasb@John:9:18" @ No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father."

nasb@John:9:19 @A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

nasb@John:9:20 @Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?"

nasb@John:9:21 @Others were saying, "These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?"

nasb@John:9:22 @At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

nasb@John:9:23 @it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.

nasb@John:9:24 @The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

nasb@John:9:25 @Jesus answered them, " I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.

nasb@John:9:26" @But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.

nasb@John:9:27" @My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

nasb@John:9:28 @and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

nasb@John:9:29" @ My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

nasb@John:9:30" @ I and the Father are one."

nasb@John:9:31 @The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

nasb@John:9:32 @Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"

nasb@John:9:33 @The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

nasb@John:9:34 @Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, ' I SAID, YOU ARE GODS'?

nasb@John:9:35" @If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

nasb@John:9:36 @do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, ' I am the Son of God'?

nasb@John:9:37" @ If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

nasb@John:9:38 @but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

nasb@John:9:39 @Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

nasb@John:9:40 @And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.

nasb@John:9:41 @Many came to Him and were saying, "While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true."

nasb@John:9:42 @Many believed in Him there.

nasb@John:10:1 @Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

nasb@John:10:2 @It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

nasb@John:10:3 @So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, " Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

nasb@John:10:4 @But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

nasb@John:10:5 @Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

nasb@John:10:6 @So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

nasb@John:10:7 @Then after this He said to the disciples, " Let us go to Judea again."

nasb@John:10:8 @The disciples said to Him, " Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?"

nasb@John:10:9 @Jesus answered, " Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

nasb@John:10:10" @But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

nasb@John:10:11 @This He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep."

nasb@John:10:12 @The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

nasb@John:10:13 @Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep.

nasb@John:10:14 @So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead,

nasb@John:10:15 @and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him."

nasb@John:10:16 @Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, so that we may die with Him."

nasb@John:10:17 @So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

nasb@John:10:18 @Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off;

nasb@John:10:19 @and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

nasb@John:10:20 @Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house.

nasb@John:10:21 @Martha then said to Jesus, " Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

nasb@John:10:22" @Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You."

nasb@John:10:23 @Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

nasb@John:10:24 @Martha said to Him, " I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

nasb@John:10:25 @Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

nasb@John:10:26 @and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

nasb@John:10:27 @She said to Him, "Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the world."

nasb@John:10:28 @When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, " The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

nasb@John:10:29 @And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was coming to Him.

nasb@John:10:30 @Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.

nasb@John:10:31 @Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

nasb@John:10:32 @Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, " Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."

nasb@John:10:33 @When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled,

nasb@John:10:34 @and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see."

nasb@John:10:35 @Jesus wept.

nasb@John:10:36 @So the Jews were saying, "See how He loved him!"

nasb@John:10:37 @But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from dying?"

nasb@John:10:38 @So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

nasb@John:10:39 @Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days."

nasb@John:10:40 @Jesus said to her, " Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"

nasb@John:10:41 @So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, " Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

nasb@John:10:42" @I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me."

nasb@John:10:43 @When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth."

nasb@John:10:44 @The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

nasb@John:10:45 @Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.

nasb@John:10:46 @But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

nasb@John:10:47 @Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.

nasb@John:10:48" @If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

nasb@John:10:49 @But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

nasb@John:10:50 @nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

nasb@John:10:51 @Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

nasb@John:10:52 @and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

nasb@John:10:53 @So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

nasb@John:10:54 @Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

nasb@John:10:55 @Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

nasb@John:10:56 @So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?"

nasb@John:10:57 @Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.

nasb@John:11:1 @Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

nasb@John:11:2 @So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

nasb@John:11:3 @Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

nasb@John:11:4 @But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,

nasb@John:11:5" @Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"

nasb@John:11:6 @Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

nasb@John:11:7 @Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

nasb@John:11:8" @ For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."

nasb@John:11:9 @The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

nasb@John:11:10 @But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

nasb@John:11:11 @because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

nasb@John:11:12 @On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

nasb@John:11:13 @took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, " Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel."

nasb@John:11:14 @Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,

nasb@John:11:15" @ FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT."

nasb@John:11:16 @These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

nasb@John:11:17 @So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.

nasb@John:11:18 @For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

nasb@John:11:19 @So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him."

nasb@John:11:20 @Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;

nasb@John:11:21 @these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

nasb@John:11:22 @Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

nasb@John:11:23 @And Jesus answered them, saying, " The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

nasb@John:11:24" @Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

nasb@John:11:25" @ He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

nasb@John:11:26" @If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

nasb@John:11:27" @ Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ' Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

nasb@John:11:28" @ Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven- "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

nasb@John:11:29 @So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, " An angel has spoken to Him."

nasb@John:11:30 @Jesus answered and said, " This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

nasb@John:11:31" @ Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

nasb@John:11:32" @And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."

nasb@John:11:33 @But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

nasb@John:11:34 @The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

nasb@John:11:35 @So Jesus said to them, " For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

nasb@John:11:36" @While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

nasb@John:11:37 @But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.

nasb@John:11:38 @This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke- " LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"

nasb@John:11:39 @For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

nasb@John:11:40" @ HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM."

nasb@John:11:41 @These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.

nasb@John:11:42 @Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

nasb@John:11:43 @for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

nasb@John:11:44 @And Jesus cried out and said, " He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.

nasb@John:11:45" @ He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

nasb@John:11:46" @ I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

nasb@John:11:47" @If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

nasb@John:11:48" @ He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.

nasb@John:11:49" @ For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

nasb@John:11:50" @I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."

nasb@John:12:1 @Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

nasb@John:12:2 @During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,

nasb@John:12:3 @Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,

nasb@John:12:4 @got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

nasb@John:12:5 @Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

nasb@John:12:6 @So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"

nasb@John:12:7 @Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."

nasb@John:12:8 @Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, " If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."

nasb@John:12:9 @Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."

nasb@John:12:10 @Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

nasb@John:12:11 @For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean."

nasb@John:12:12 @So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

nasb@John:12:13" @You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.

nasb@John:12:14" @If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

nasb@John:12:15" @For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

nasb@John:12:16" @Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

nasb@John:12:17" @If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

nasb@John:12:18" @ I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ' HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'

nasb@John:12:19" @From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.

nasb@John:12:20" @Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."

nasb@John:12:21 @When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me."

nasb@John:12:22 @The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.

nasb@John:12:23 @There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

nasb@John:12:24 @So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking."

nasb@John:12:25 @He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"

nasb@John:12:26 @Jesus then answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

nasb@John:12:27 @After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

nasb@John:12:28 @Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.

nasb@John:12:29 @For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor.

nasb@John:12:30 @So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.

nasb@John:12:31 @Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;

nasb@John:12:32 @if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.

nasb@John:12:33" @ Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'

nasb@John:12:34" @A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

nasb@John:12:35" @ By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

nasb@John:12:36 @Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, " Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later."

nasb@John:12:37 @Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You."

nasb@John:12:38 @Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for MeNULL Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

nasb@John:12:14" @ Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

nasb@John:12:2" @In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

nasb@John:12:3" @If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

nasb@John:12:4" @And you know the way where I am going."

nasb@John:12:5 @Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?"

nasb@John:12:6 @Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

nasb@John:12:7" @ If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him."

nasb@John:12:8 @Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."

nasb@John:12:9 @Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

nasb@John:12:10" @Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

nasb@John:12:11" @Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.

nasb@John:12:12" @Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

nasb@John:12:13" @ Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

nasb@John:12:14" @If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

nasb@John:12:15" @ If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

nasb@John:12:16" @I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

nasb@John:12:17 @that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

nasb@John:12:18" @I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

nasb@John:12:19" @ After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.

nasb@John:12:20" @ In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

nasb@John:12:21" @ He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him."

nasb@John:12:22 @Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?"

nasb@John:12:23 @Jesus answered and said to him, " If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

nasb@John:12:24" @He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.

nasb@John:12:25" @These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

nasb@John:12:26" @But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

nasb@John:12:27" @ Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

nasb@John:12:28" @ You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

nasb@John:12:29" @Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

nasb@John:12:30" @I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;

nasb@John:12:31 @but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.

nasb@John:12:15" @ I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

nasb@John:12:2" @Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

nasb@John:12:3" @ You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

nasb@John:12:4" @ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

nasb@John:12:5" @I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

nasb@John:12:6" @If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

nasb@John:12:7" @If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

nasb@John:12:8" @My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

nasb@John:12:9" @Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

nasb@John:12:10" @ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

nasb@John:12:11" @ These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

nasb@John:12:12" @This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

nasb@John:12:13" @ Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

nasb@John:12:14" @You are My friends if you do what I command you.

nasb@John:12:15" @No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

nasb@John:12:16" @ You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

nasb@John:12:17" @This I command you, that you love one another.

nasb@John:12:18" @ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

nasb@John:12:19" @If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

nasb@John:12:20" @Remember the word that I said to you, ' A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

nasb@John:12:21" @But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

nasb@John:12:22" @ If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

nasb@John:12:23" @He who hates Me hates My Father also.

nasb@John:12:24" @ If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

nasb@John:12:25" @But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ' THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'

nasb@John:12:26" @When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

nasb@John:12:27 @and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

nasb@John:12:16" @ These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

nasb@John:12:2" @They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

nasb@John:12:3" @These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

nasb@John:12:4" @But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

nasb@John:12:5" @But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ' Where are You going?'

nasb@John:12:6" @But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

nasb@John:12:7" @But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

nasb@John:12:8" @And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

nasb@John:12:9 @concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;

nasb@John:12:10 @and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

nasb@John:12:11 @and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

nasb@John:12:12" @I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

nasb@John:12:13" @But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

nasb@John:12:14" @He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.

nasb@John:12:15" @ All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

nasb@John:12:16" @ A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me."

nasb@John:12:17 @Some of His disciples then said to one another, "What is this thing He is telling us, ' A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because I go to the Father'?"

nasb@John:12:18 @So they were saying, "What is this that He says, 'A little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."

nasb@John:12:19 @Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, 'A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'?

nasb@John:12:20" @Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy.

nasb@John:12:21" @ Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

nasb@John:12:22" @Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

nasb@John:12:23" @ In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

nasb@John:12:24" @ Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

nasb@John:12:25" @These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

nasb@John:12:26" @ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

nasb@John:12:27 @for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

nasb@John:12:28" @ I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."

nasb@John:12:29 @His disciples said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

nasb@John:12:30" @Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from God."

nasb@John:12:31 @Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

nasb@John:12:32" @Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

nasb@John:12:33" @These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."

nasb@John:13:1 @Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

nasb@John:13:2 @even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

nasb@John:13:3" @This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

nasb@John:13:4" @ I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

nasb@John:13:5" @Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

nasb@John:13:6" @ I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

nasb@John:13:7" @Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

nasb@John:13:8 @for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

nasb@John:13:9" @ I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;

nasb@John:13:10 @and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

nasb@John:13:11" @I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

nasb@John:13:12" @While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

nasb@John:13:13" @But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

nasb@John:13:14" @I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

nasb@John:13:15" @I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.

nasb@John:13:16" @ They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

nasb@John:13:17" @ Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

nasb@John:13:18" @As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

nasb@John:13:19" @For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

nasb@John:13:20" @I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

nasb@John:13:21 @that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

nasb@John:13:22" @The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

nasb@John:13:23 @I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

nasb@John:13:24" @Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

nasb@John:13:25" @O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

nasb@John:13:26 @and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

nasb@John:14:1 @When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which He entered with His disciples.

nasb@John:14:2 @Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

nasb@John:14:3 @Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

nasb@John:14:4 @So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, " Whom do you seek?"

nasb@John:14:5 @They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am He." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.

nasb@John:14:6 @So when He said to them, "I am He," they drew back and fell to the ground.

nasb@John:14:7 @Therefore He again asked them, " Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

nasb@John:14:8 @Jesus answered, "I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,"

nasb@John:14:9 @to fulfill the word which He spoke, " Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one."

nasb@John:14:10 @Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave's name was Malchus.

nasb@John:14:11 @So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?"

nasb@John:14:12 @So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,

nasb@John:14:13 @and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

nasb@John:14:14 @Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.

nasb@John:14:15 @Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,

nasb@John:14:16 @but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.

nasb@John:14:17 @Then the slave-girl who kept the door said to Peter, " You are not also one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not."

nasb@John:14:18 @Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire, for it was cold and they were warming themselves; and Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.

nasb@John:14:19 @The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.

nasb@John:14:20 @Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.

nasb@John:14:21" @Why do you question Me? Question those who have heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said."

nasb@John:14:22 @When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, "Is that the way You answer the high priest?"

nasb@John:14:23 @Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike Me?"

nasb@John:14:24 @So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

nasb@John:14:25 @Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, " You are not also one of His disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."

nasb@John:14:26 @One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"

nasb@John:14:27 @Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

nasb@John:14:28 @Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

nasb@John:14:29 @Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this Man?"

nasb@John:14:30 @They answered and said to him, "If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you."

nasb@John:14:31 @So Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews said to him, "We are not permitted to put anyone to death,"

nasb@John:14:32 @to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.

nasb@John:14:33 @Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, " Are You the King of the Jews?"

nasb@John:14:34 @Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?"

nasb@John:14:35 @Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?"

nasb@John:14:36 @Jesus answered, " My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."

nasb@John:14:37 @Therefore Pilate said to Him, "So You are a king?" Jesus answered, " You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

nasb@John:14:38 @Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, " I find no guilt in Him.

nasb@John:14:39" @ But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you the King of the Jews?"

nasb@John:14:40 @So they cried out again, saying, " Not this Man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber.

nasb@John:15:1 @Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.

nasb@John:15:2 @And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;

nasb@John:15:3 @and they began to come up to Him and say, " Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face.

nasb@John:15:4 @Pilate came out again and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him."

nasb@John:15:5 @Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the Man!"

nasb@John:15:6 @So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him."

nasb@John:15:7 @The Jews answered him, " We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God."

nasb@John:15:8 @Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

nasb@John:15:9 @and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

nasb@John:15:10 @So Pilate said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"

nasb@John:15:11 @Jesus answered, " You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."

nasb@John:15:12 @As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, " If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar."

nasb@John:15:13 @Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

nasb@John:15:14 @Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

nasb@John:15:15 @So they cried out, " Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."

nasb@John:15:16 @So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

nasb@John:15:17 @They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

nasb@John:15:18 @There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

nasb@John:15:19 @Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, " JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

nasb@John:15:20 @Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

nasb@John:15:21 @So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, ' The King of the Jews'; but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.'"

nasb@John:15:22 @Pilate answered, " What I have written I have written."

nasb@John:15:23 @Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.

nasb@John:15:24 @So they said to one another, " Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be"; this was to fulfill the Scripture- "THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS."

nasb@John:15:25 @Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

nasb@John:15:26 @When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, " Woman, behold, your son!"

nasb@John:15:27 @Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

nasb@John:15:28 @After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, " I am thirsty."

nasb@John:15:29 @A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

nasb@John:15:30 @Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

nasb@John:15:31 @Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

nasb@John:15:32 @So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

nasb@John:15:33 @but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

nasb@John:15:34 @But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

nasb@John:15:35 @And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

nasb@John:15:36 @For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, " NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."

nasb@John:15:37 @And again another Scripture says, " THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

nasb@John:15:38 @After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

nasb@John:15:39 @Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

nasb@John:15:40 @So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

nasb@John:15:41 @Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

nasb@John:15:42 @Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

nasb@John:16:1 @Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.

nasb@John:16:2 @So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, " They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him."

nasb@John:16:3 @So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.

nasb@John:16:4 @The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

nasb@John:16:5 @and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.

nasb@John:16:6 @And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there,

nasb@John:16:7 @and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

nasb@John:16:8 @So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.

nasb@John:16:9 @For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

nasb@John:16:10 @So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

nasb@John:16:11 @But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;

nasb@John:16:12 @and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

nasb@John:16:13 @And they said to her, " Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."

nasb@John:16:14 @When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.

nasb@John:16:15 @Jesus said to her, " Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."

nasb@John:16:16 @Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, " Rabboni!" (which means, Teacher).

nasb@John:16:17 @Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"

nasb@John:16:18 @Mary Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.

nasb@John:16:19 @So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, " Peace be with you."

nasb@John:16:20 @And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

nasb@John:16:21 @So Jesus said to them again, " Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

nasb@John:16:22 @And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

nasb@John:16:23" @ If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."

nasb@John:16:24 @But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

nasb@John:16:25 @So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."

nasb@John:16:26 @After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, " Peace be with you."

nasb@John:16:27 @Then He said to Thomas, " Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."

nasb@John:16:28 @Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

nasb@John:16:29 @Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."

nasb@John:16:30 @Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

nasb@John:16:31 @but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

nasb@John:17:1 @After these things Jesus manifested Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and He manifested Himself in this way.

nasb@John:17:2 @Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

nasb@John:17:3 @Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will also come with you." They went out and got into the boat; and that night they caught nothing.

nasb@John:17:4 @But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

nasb@John:17:5 @So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish, do you?" They answered Him, "No."

nasb@John:17:6 @And He said to them, " Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch." So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

nasb@John:17:7 @Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord." So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

nasb@John:17:8 @But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but about one hundred yards away, dragging the net full of fish.

nasb@John:17:9 @So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire already laid and fish placed on it, and bread.

nasb@John:17:10 @Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have now caught."

nasb@John:17:11 @Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

nasb@John:17:12 @Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the disciples ventured to question Him, "Who are You?" knowing that it was the Lord.

nasb@John:17:13 @Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

nasb@John:17:14 @This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

nasb@John:17:15 @So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Tend My lambs."

nasb@John:17:16 @He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, " Shepherd My sheep."

nasb@John:17:17 @He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, " Tend My sheep.

nasb@John:17:18" @Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go."

nasb@John:17:19 @Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, " Follow Me!"

nasb@John:17:20 @Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"

nasb@John:17:21 @So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, "Lord, and what about this man?"

nasb@John:17:22 @Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!"

nasb@John:17:23 @Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"

nasb@John:17:24 @This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

nasb@John:17:25 @And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

nasb@Acts:1:1 @The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

nasb@Acts:1:2 @until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen.

nasb@Acts:1:3 @To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

nasb@Acts:1:4 @Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me;

nasb@Acts:1:5 @for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

nasb@Acts:1:6 @So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

nasb@Acts:1:7 @He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

nasb@Acts:1:8 @but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."

nasb@Acts:1:9 @And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

nasb@Acts:1:10 @And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them.

nasb@Acts:1:11 @They also said, " Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."

nasb@Acts:1:12 @Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

nasb@Acts:1:13 @When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

nasb@Acts:1:14 @These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

nasb@Acts:1:15 @At this time Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty persons was there together), and said,

nasb@Acts:1:16" @Brethren, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

nasb@Acts:1:17" @For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry."

nasb@Acts:1:18 @(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

nasb@Acts:1:19 @And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in their own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

nasb@Acts:1:20" @For it is written in the book of Psalms, ' LET HIS HOMESTEAD BE MADE DESOLATE, AND LET NO ONE DWELL IN IT'; and, ' LET ANOTHER MAN TAKE HIS OFFICE.'

nasb@Acts:1:21" @Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us--

nasb@Acts:1:22 @beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us--one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection."

nasb@Acts:1:23 @So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias.

nasb@Acts:1:24 @And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen

nasb@Acts:1:25 @to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."

nasb@Acts:1:26 @And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

nasb@Acts:2:1 @When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

nasb@Acts:2:2 @And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

nasb@Acts:2:3 @And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

nasb@Acts:2:4 @And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

nasb@Acts:2:5 @Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

nasb@Acts:2:6 @And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

nasb@Acts:2:7 @They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

nasb@Acts:2:8" @And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

nasb@Acts:2:9" @Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

nasb@Acts:2:10 @Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

nasb@Acts:2:11 @Cretans and Arabs--we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."

nasb@Acts:2:12 @And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"

nasb@Acts:2:13 @But others were mocking and saying, " They are full of sweet wine."

nasb@Acts:2:14 @But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them- "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

nasb@Acts:2:15" @For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;

nasb@Acts:2:16 @but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel-

nasb@Acts:2:17 @' AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS;

nasb@Acts:2:18 @EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT And they shall prophesy.

nasb@Acts:2:19 @'AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.

nasb@Acts:2:20 @'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.

nasb@Acts:2:21 @'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'

nasb@Acts:2:22" @Men of Israel, listen to these words- Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know--

nasb@Acts:2:23 @this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

nasb@Acts:2:24" @But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.

nasb@Acts:2:25" @For David says of Him, ' I SAW THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.

nasb@Acts:2:26 @'THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;

nasb@Acts:2:27 @BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.

nasb@Acts:2:28 @'YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.'

nasb@Acts:2:29" @Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

nasb@Acts:2:30" @And so, because he was a prophet and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE,

nasb@Acts:2:31 @he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that HE WAS NEITHER ABANDONED TO HADES, NOR DID His flesh SUFFER DECAY.

nasb@Acts:2:32" @This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.

nasb@Acts:2:33" @Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.

nasb@Acts:2:34" @For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says- ' THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

nasb@Acts:2:35 @UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET."'

nasb@Acts:2:36" @Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified."

nasb@Acts:2:37 @Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?"

nasb@Acts:2:38 @Peter said to them, " Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Acts:2:39" @For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself."

nasb@Acts:2:40 @And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation!"

nasb@Acts:2:41 @So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

nasb@Acts:2:42 @They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

nasb@Acts:2:43 @Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.

nasb@Acts:2:44 @And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common;

nasb@Acts:2:45 @and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.

nasb@Acts:2:46 @Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart,

nasb@Acts:2:47 @praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

nasb@Acts:3:1 @Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer.

nasb@Acts:3:2 @And a man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.

nasb@Acts:3:3 @When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

nasb@Acts:3:4 @But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, "Look at us!"

nasb@Acts:3:5 @And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

nasb@Acts:3:6 @But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you- In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene--walk!"

nasb@Acts:3:7 @And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

nasb@Acts:3:8 @With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

nasb@Acts:3:9 @And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

nasb@Acts:3:10 @and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

nasb@Acts:3:11 @While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon, full of amazement.

nasb@Acts:3:12 @But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

nasb@Acts:3:13" @ The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

nasb@Acts:3:14" @But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

nasb@Acts:3:15 @but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

nasb@Acts:3:16" @And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.

nasb@Acts:3:17" @And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

nasb@Acts:3:18" @But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

nasb@Acts:3:19" @Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

nasb@Acts:3:20 @and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,

nasb@Acts:3:21 @whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

nasb@Acts:3:22" @Moses said, ' THE LORD GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN; TO HIM YOU SHALL GIVE HEED to everything He says to you.

nasb@Acts:3:23 @' And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

nasb@Acts:3:24" @And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.

nasb@Acts:3:25" @It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ' AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.'

nasb@Acts:3:26" @For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."

nasb@Acts:4:1 @As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

nasb@Acts:4:2 @being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

nasb@Acts:4:3 @And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

nasb@Acts:4:4 @But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

nasb@Acts:4:5 @On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

nasb@Acts:4:6 @and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

nasb@Acts:4:7 @When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"

nasb@Acts:4:8 @Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, " Rulers and elders of the people,

nasb@Acts:4:9 @if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

nasb@Acts:4:10 @let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by this name this man stands here before you in good health.

nasb@Acts:4:11" @ He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone.

nasb@Acts:4:12" @And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

nasb@Acts:4:13 @Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

nasb@Acts:4:14 @And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

nasb@Acts:4:15 @But when they had ordered them to leave the Council, they began to confer with one another,

nasb@Acts:4:16 @saying, " What shall we do with these men? For the fact that a noteworthy miracle has taken place through them is apparent to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

nasb@Acts:4:17" @But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name."

nasb@Acts:4:18 @And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

nasb@Acts:4:19 @But Peter and John answered and said to them, " Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;

nasb@Acts:4:20 @for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."

nasb@Acts:4:21 @When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

nasb@Acts:4:22 @for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

nasb@Acts:4:23 @When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

nasb@Acts:4:24 @And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, "O Lord, it is You who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM,

nasb@Acts:4:25 @who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ' WHY DID THE GENTILES RAGE, AND THE PEOPLES DEVISE FUTILE THINGS?

nasb@Acts:4:26 @' THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOOK THEIR STAND, AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST.'

nasb@Acts:4:27" @For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

nasb@Acts:4:28 @to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

nasb@Acts:4:29" @And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence,

nasb@Acts:4:30 @while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus."

nasb@Acts:4:31 @And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

nasb@Acts:4:32 @And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them.

nasb@Acts:4:33 @And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all.

nasb@Acts:4:34 @For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales

nasb@Acts:4:35 @and lay them at the apostles' feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.

nasb@Acts:4:36 @Now Joseph, a Levite of Cyprian birth, who was also called Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of Encouragement),

nasb@Acts:4:37 @and who owned a tract of land, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.

nasb@Acts:5:1 @But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

nasb@Acts:5:2 @and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife's full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles' feet.

nasb@Acts:5:3 @But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?

nasb@Acts:5:4" @While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

nasb@Acts:5:5 @And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.

nasb@Acts:5:6 @The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.

nasb@Acts:5:7 @Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

nasb@Acts:5:8 @And Peter responded to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?" And she said, "Yes, that was the price."

nasb@Acts:5:9 @Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."

nasb@Acts:5:10 @And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

nasb@Acts:5:11 @And great fear came over the whole church, and over all who heard of these things.

nasb@Acts:5:12 @At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's portico.

nasb@Acts:5:13 @But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem.

nasb@Acts:5:14 @And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number,

nasb@Acts:5:15 @to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.

nasb@Acts:5:16 @Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

nasb@Acts:5:17 @But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

nasb@Acts:5:18 @They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.

nasb@Acts:5:19 @But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said,

nasb@Acts:5:20" @Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life."

nasb@Acts:5:21 @Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

nasb@Acts:5:22 @But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported back,

nasb@Acts:5:23 @saying, "We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside."

nasb@Acts:5:24 @Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this.

nasb@Acts:5:25 @But someone came and reported to them, "The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!"

nasb@Acts:5:26 @Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).

nasb@Acts:5:27 @When they had brought them, they stood them before the Council. The high priest questioned them,

nasb@Acts:5:28 @saying, "We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

nasb@Acts:5:29 @But Peter and the apostles answered, " We must obey God rather than men.

nasb@Acts:5:30" @ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross.

nasb@Acts:5:31" @ He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

nasb@Acts:5:32" @And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him."

nasb@Acts:5:33 @But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.

nasb@Acts:5:34 @But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

nasb@Acts:5:35 @And he said to them, "Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

nasb@Acts:5:36" @For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined up with him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

nasb@Acts:5:37" @After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census and drew away some people after him; he too perished, and all those who followed him were scattered.

nasb@Acts:5:38" @So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown;

nasb@Acts:5:39 @but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God."

nasb@Acts:5:40 @They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.

nasb@Acts:5:41 @So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name.

nasb@Acts:5:42 @And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

nasb@Acts:6:1 @Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.

nasb@Acts:6:2 @So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

nasb@Acts:6:3" @Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.

nasb@Acts:6:4" @But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

nasb@Acts:6:5 @The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.

nasb@Acts:6:6 @And these they brought before the apostles; and after praying, they laid their hands on them.

nasb@Acts:6:7 @The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

nasb@Acts:6:8 @And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

nasb@Acts:6:9 @But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen.

nasb@Acts:6:10 @But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

nasb@Acts:6:11 @Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."

nasb@Acts:6:12 @And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes, and they came up to him and dragged him away and brought him before the Council.

nasb@Acts:6:13 @They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

nasb@Acts:6:14 @for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us."

nasb@Acts:6:15 @And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the Council saw his face like the face of an angel.

nasb@Acts:7:1 @The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

nasb@Acts:7:2 @And he said, "Hear me, brethren and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

nasb@Acts:7:3 @and said to him, ' LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME INTO THE LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.'

nasb@Acts:7:4" @ Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

nasb@Acts:7:5" @But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER HIM.

nasb@Acts:7:6" @But God spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.

nasb@Acts:7:7" @ 'AND WHATEVER NATION TO WHICH THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I MYSELF WILL JUDGE,' said God, 'AND AFTER THAT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE.'

nasb@Acts:7:8" @And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

nasb@Acts:7:9" @The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

nasb@Acts:7:10 @and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

nasb@Acts:7:11" @Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

nasb@Acts:7:12" @But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.

nasb@Acts:7:13" @On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was disclosed to Pharaoh.

nasb@Acts:7:14" @Then Joseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.

nasb@Acts:7:15" @And Jacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.

nasb@Acts:7:16" @From there they were removed to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

nasb@Acts:7:17" @But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

nasb@Acts:7:18 @until THERE AROSE ANOTHER KING OVER EGYPT WHO KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JOSEPH.

nasb@Acts:7:19" @It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive.

nasb@Acts:7:20" @It was at this time that Moses was born; and he was lovely in the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father's home.

nasb@Acts:7:21" @And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son.

nasb@Acts:7:22" @Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

nasb@Acts:7:23" @But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

nasb@Acts:7:24" @And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.

nasb@Acts:7:25" @And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

nasb@Acts:7:26" @ On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?'

nasb@Acts:7:27" @But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ' WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND JUDGE OVER US?

nasb@Acts:7:28 @' YOU DO NOT MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY, DO YOU?'

nasb@Acts:7:29" @At this remark, MOSES FLED AND BECAME AN ALIEN IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN, where he became the father of two sons.

nasb@Acts:7:30" @After forty years had passed, AN ANGEL APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT Sinai, IN THE FLAME OF A BURNING THORN BUSH.

nasb@Acts:7:31" @When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord-

nasb@Acts:7:32 @' I AM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND ISAAC AND JACOB.' Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.

nasb@Acts:7:33" @ BUT THE LORD SAID TO HIM, ' TAKE OFF THE SANDALS FROM YOUR FEET, FOR THE PLACE ON WHICH YOU ARE STANDING IS HOLY GROUND.

nasb@Acts:7:34 @' I HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN THE OPPRESSION OF MY PEOPLE IN EGYPT AND HAVE HEARD THEIR GROANS, AND I HAVE COME DOWN TO RESCUE THEM; COME NOW, AND I WILL SEND YOU TO EGYPT.'

nasb@Acts:7:35" @This Moses whom they disowned, saying, 'WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND A JUDGE?' is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.

nasb@Acts:7:36" @ This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

nasb@Acts:7:37" @This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ' GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.'

nasb@Acts:7:38" @This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.

nasb@Acts:7:39" @Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

nasb@Acts:7:40 @SAYING TO AARON, 'MAKE FOR US GODS WHO WILL GO BEFORE US; FOR THIS MOSES WHO LED US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT--WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.'

nasb@Acts:7:41" @At that time they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

nasb@Acts:7:42" @But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ' IT WAS NOT TO ME THAT YOU OFFERED VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, WAS IT, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?

nasb@Acts:7:43 @' YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF THE GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL REMOVE YOU BEYOND BABYLON.'

nasb@Acts:7:44" @Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

nasb@Acts:7:45" @And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

nasb@Acts:7:46" @ David found favor in God's sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

nasb@Acts:7:47" @But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

nasb@Acts:7:48" @However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says-

nasb@Acts:7:49 @' HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says the Lord, 'OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE?

nasb@Acts:7:50 @' WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'

nasb@Acts:7:51" @You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

nasb@Acts:7:52" @ Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

nasb@Acts:7:53 @you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it."

nasb@Acts:7:54 @Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.

nasb@Acts:7:55 @But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;

nasb@Acts:7:56 @and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

nasb@Acts:7:57 @But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

nasb@Acts:7:58 @When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

nasb@Acts:7:59 @They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

nasb@Acts:7:60 @Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" Having said this, he fell asleep.

nasb@Acts:8:1 @Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

nasb@Acts:8:2 @Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.

nasb@Acts:8:3 @But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

nasb@Acts:8:4 @Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word.

nasb@Acts:8:5 @Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.

nasb@Acts:8:6 @The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing.

nasb@Acts:8:7 @For in the case of many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice; and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

nasb@Acts:8:8 @So there was much rejoicing in that city.

nasb@Acts:8:9 @Now there was a man named Simon, who formerly was practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great;

nasb@Acts:8:10 @and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, " This man is what is called the Great Power of God."

nasb@Acts:8:11 @And they were giving him attention because he had for a long time astonished them with his magic arts.

nasb@Acts:8:12 @But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.

nasb@Acts:8:13 @Even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip, and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed.

nasb@Acts:8:14 @Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John,

nasb@Acts:8:15 @who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Acts:8:16 @For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

nasb@Acts:8:17 @Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Acts:8:18 @Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

nasb@Acts:8:19 @saying, "Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

nasb@Acts:8:20 @But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

nasb@Acts:8:21" @You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

nasb@Acts:8:22" @Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you.

nasb@Acts:8:23" @For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

nasb@Acts:8:24 @But Simon answered and said, " Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."

nasb@Acts:8:25 @So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

nasb@Acts:8:26 @But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, "Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert road.)

nasb@Acts:8:27 @So he got up and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship,

nasb@Acts:8:28 @and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

nasb@Acts:8:29 @Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot."

nasb@Acts:8:30 @Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

nasb@Acts:8:31 @And he said, "Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

nasb@Acts:8:32 @Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this- " HE WAS LED AS A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER; AND AS A LAMB BEFORE ITS SHEARER IS SILENT, SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH.

nasb@Acts:8:33" @ IN HUMILIATION HIS JUDGMENT WAS TAKEN AWAY; WHO WILL RELATE HIS GENERATION? FOR HIS LIFE IS REMOVED FROM THE EARTH."

nasb@Acts:8:34 @The eunuch answered Philip and said, "Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?"

nasb@Acts:8:35 @Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.

nasb@Acts:8:36 @As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"

nasb@Acts:8:37 @[ And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."]

nasb@Acts:8:38 @And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.

nasb@Acts:8:39 @When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.

nasb@Acts:8:40 @But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

nasb@Acts:9:1 @Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

nasb@Acts:9:2 @and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

nasb@Acts:9:3 @As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;

nasb@Acts:9:4 @and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

nasb@Acts:9:5 @And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" And He said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,

nasb@Acts:9:6 @but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do."

nasb@Acts:9:7 @The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

nasb@Acts:9:8 @Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.

nasb@Acts:9:9 @And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

nasb@Acts:9:10 @Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord."

nasb@Acts:9:11 @And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying,

nasb@Acts:9:12 @and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight."

nasb@Acts:9:13 @But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem;

nasb@Acts:9:14 @and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name."

nasb@Acts:9:15 @But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

nasb@Acts:9:16 @for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

nasb@Acts:9:17 @So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, " Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

nasb@Acts:9:18 @And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;

nasb@Acts:9:19 @and he took food and was strengthened.

nasb@Acts:9:20 @and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God."

nasb@Acts:9:21 @All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, "Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?"

nasb@Acts:9:22 @But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

nasb@Acts:9:23 @When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,

nasb@Acts:9:24 @but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

nasb@Acts:9:25 @but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.

nasb@Acts:9:26 @When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

nasb@Acts:9:27 @But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

nasb@Acts:9:28 @And he was with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

nasb@Acts:9:29 @And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death.

nasb@Acts:9:30 @But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

nasb@Acts:9:31 @So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.

nasb@Acts:9:32 @Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

nasb@Acts:9:33 @There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.

nasb@Acts:9:34 @Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed." Immediately he got up.

nasb@Acts:9:35 @And all who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

nasb@Acts:9:36 @Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.

nasb@Acts:9:37 @And it happened at that time that she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upper room.

nasb@Acts:9:38 @Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him, "Do not delay in coming to us."

nasb@Acts:9:39 @So Peter arose and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.

nasb@Acts:9:40 @But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, " Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

nasb@Acts:9:41 @And he gave her his hand and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

nasb@Acts:9:42 @It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

nasb@Acts:9:43 @And Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.

nasb@Acts:10:1 @Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,

nasb@Acts:10:2 @a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.

nasb@Acts:10:3 @About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"

nasb@Acts:10:4 @And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

nasb@Acts:10:5" @Now dispatch some men to Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

nasb@Acts:10:6 @he is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the sea."

nasb@Acts:10:7 @When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

nasb@Acts:10:8 @and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

nasb@Acts:10:9 @On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

nasb@Acts:10:10 @But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

nasb@Acts:10:11 @and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

nasb@Acts:10:12 @and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

nasb@Acts:10:13 @A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"

nasb@Acts:10:14 @But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."

nasb@Acts:10:15 @Again a voice came to him a second time, " What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

nasb@Acts:10:16 @This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

nasb@Acts:10:17 @Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate;

nasb@Acts:10:18 @and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.

nasb@Acts:10:19 @While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you.

nasb@Acts:10:20" @But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself."

nasb@Acts:10:21 @Peter went down to the men and said, "Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?"

nasb@Acts:10:22 @They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, was divinely directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear a message from you."

nasb@Acts:10:23 @So he invited them in and gave them lodging. And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

nasb@Acts:10:24 @On the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

nasb@Acts:10:25 @When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him.

nasb@Acts:10:26 @But Peter raised him up, saying, " Stand up; I too am just a man."

nasb@Acts:10:27 @As he talked with him, he entered and found many people assembled.

nasb@Acts:10:28 @And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

nasb@Acts:10:29" @That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me."

nasb@Acts:10:30 @Cornelius said, " Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments,

nasb@Acts:10:31 @and he said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

nasb@Acts:10:32 @'Therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.'

nasb@Acts:10:33" @So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."

nasb@Acts:10:34 @Opening his mouth, Peter said- "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality,

nasb@Acts:10:35 @but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.

nasb@Acts:10:36" @The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)--

nasb@Acts:10:37 @you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed.

nasb@Acts:10:38" @You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

nasb@Acts:10:39" @We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.

nasb@Acts:10:40" @ God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible,

nasb@Acts:10:41 @not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead.

nasb@Acts:10:42" @And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.

nasb@Acts:10:43" @Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins."

nasb@Acts:10:44 @While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message.

nasb@Acts:10:45 @All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

nasb@Acts:10:46 @For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

nasb@Acts:10:47" @ Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?"

nasb@Acts:10:48 @And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

nasb@Acts:11:1 @Now the apostles and the brethren who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

nasb@Acts:11:2 @And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him,

nasb@Acts:11:3 @saying, " You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."

nasb@Acts:11:4 @But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,

nasb@Acts:11:5" @ I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,

nasb@Acts:11:6 @and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air.

nasb@Acts:11:7" @I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter; kill and eat.'

nasb@Acts:11:8" @But I said, 'By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

nasb@Acts:11:9" @But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ' What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'

nasb@Acts:11:10" @This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.

nasb@Acts:11:11" @And behold, at that moment three men appeared at the house in which we were staying, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

nasb@Acts:11:12" @ The Spirit told me to go with them without misgivings. These six brethren also went with me and we entered the man's house.

nasb@Acts:11:13" @And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, 'Send to Joppa and have Simon, who is also called Peter, brought here;

nasb@Acts:11:14 @and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'

nasb@Acts:11:15" @And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning.

nasb@Acts:11:16" @And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ' John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'

nasb@Acts:11:17" @Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?"

nasb@Acts:11:18 @When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life."

nasb@Acts:11:19 @So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

nasb@Acts:11:20 @But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

nasb@Acts:11:21 @And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.

nasb@Acts:11:22 @The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch.

nasb@Acts:11:23 @Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

nasb@Acts:11:24 @for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord.

nasb@Acts:11:25 @And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul;

nasb@Acts:11:26 @and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

nasb@Acts:11:27 @Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

nasb@Acts:11:28 @One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius.

nasb@Acts:11:29 @And in the proportion that any of the disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the relief of the brethren living in Judea.

nasb@Acts:11:30 @And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders.

nasb@Acts:12:1 @Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to mistreat them.

nasb@Acts:12:2 @And he had James the brother of John put to death with a sword.

nasb@Acts:12:3 @When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread.

nasb@Acts:12:4 @When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out before the people.

nasb@Acts:12:5 @So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.

nasb@Acts:12:6 @On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.

nasb@Acts:12:7 @And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter's side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly." And his chains fell off his hands.

nasb@Acts:12:8 @And the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me."

nasb@Acts:12:9 @And he went out and continued to follow, and he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

nasb@Acts:12:10 @When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

nasb@Acts:12:11 @When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

nasb@Acts:12:12 @And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

nasb@Acts:12:13 @When he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer.

nasb@Acts:12:14 @When she recognized Peter's voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

nasb@Acts:12:15 @They said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, "It is his angel."

nasb@Acts:12:16 @But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed.

nasb@Acts:12:17 @But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, "Report these things to James and the brethren." Then he left and went to another place.

nasb@Acts:12:18 @Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

nasb@Acts:12:19 @When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

nasb@Acts:12:20 @Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king's chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed by the king's country.

nasb@Acts:12:21 @On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

nasb@Acts:12:22 @The people kept crying out, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

nasb@Acts:12:23 @And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

nasb@Acts:12:24 @But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.

nasb@Acts:12:25 @And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their mission, taking along with them John, who was also called Mark.

nasb@Acts:13:1 @Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers- Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

nasb@Acts:13:2 @While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

nasb@Acts:13:3 @Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

nasb@Acts:13:4 @So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

nasb@Acts:13:5 @When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.

nasb@Acts:13:6 @When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,

nasb@Acts:13:7 @who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

nasb@Acts:13:8 @But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

nasb@Acts:13:9 @But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,

nasb@Acts:13:10 @and said, "You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

nasb@Acts:13:11" @Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time." And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.

nasb@Acts:13:12 @Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

nasb@Acts:13:13 @Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

nasb@Acts:13:14 @But going on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

nasb@Acts:13:15 @After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it."

nasb@Acts:13:16 @Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen-

nasb@Acts:13:17" @The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it.

nasb@Acts:13:18" @For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

nasb@Acts:13:19" @ When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance--all of which took about four hundred and fifty years.

nasb@Acts:13:20" @After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

nasb@Acts:13:21" @Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

nasb@Acts:13:23" @ From the descendants of this man, according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,

nasb@Acts:13:24 @after John had proclaimed before His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

nasb@Acts:13:25" @And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

nasb@Acts:13:26" @Brethren, sons of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

nasb@Acts:13:27" @For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.

nasb@Acts:13:28" @And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

nasb@Acts:13:29" @When they had carried out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

nasb@Acts:13:30" @But God raised Him from the dead;

nasb@Acts:13:31 @and for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.

nasb@Acts:13:32" @And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

nasb@Acts:13:33 @that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ' YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.'

nasb@Acts:13:35" @Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ' YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.'

nasb@Acts:13:36" @For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

nasb@Acts:13:37 @but He whom God raised did not undergo decay.

nasb@Acts:13:38" @Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

nasb@Acts:13:39 @and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

nasb@Acts:13:40" @Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you-

nasb@Acts:13:41 @' BEHOLD, YOU SCOFFERS, AND MARVEL, AND PERISH; FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHING A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE, THOUGH SOMEONE SHOULD DESCRIBE IT TO YOU.'"

nasb@Acts:13:42 @As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging that these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath.

nasb@Acts:13:43 @Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the grace of God.

nasb@Acts:13:44 @The next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the word of the Lord.

nasb@Acts:13:45 @But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.

nasb@Acts:13:46 @Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

nasb@Acts:13:47" @For so the Lord has commanded us, ' I HAVE PLACED YOU AS A LIGHT FOR THE GENTILES, THAT YOU MAY BRING SALVATION TO THE END OF THE EARTH.'"

nasb@Acts:13:48 @When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

nasb@Acts:13:49 @And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.

nasb@Acts:13:50 @But the Jews incited the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

nasb@Acts:13:51 @But they shook off the dust of their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

nasb@Acts:13:52 @And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Acts:14:1 @In Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.

nasb@Acts:14:2 @But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren.

nasb@Acts:14:3 @Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands.

nasb@Acts:14:4 @But the people of the city were divided; and some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

nasb@Acts:14:5 @And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

nasb@Acts:14:6 @they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region;

nasb@Acts:14:7 @and there they continued to preach the gospel.

nasb@Acts:14:8 @At Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

nasb@Acts:14:9 @This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze on him and had seen that he had faith to be made well,

nasb@Acts:14:10 @said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he leaped up and began to walk.

nasb@Acts:14:11 @When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, " The gods have become like men and have come down to us."

nasb@Acts:14:12 @And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

nasb@Acts:14:13 @The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

nasb@Acts:14:14 @But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out

nasb@Acts:14:15 @and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, WHO MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM.

nasb@Acts:14:16" @In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;

nasb@Acts:14:17 @and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."

nasb@Acts:14:18 @Even saying these things, with difficulty they restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.

nasb@Acts:14:19 @But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

nasb@Acts:14:20 @But while the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

nasb@Acts:14:21 @After they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

nasb@Acts:14:22 @strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, " Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God."

nasb@Acts:14:23 @When they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

nasb@Acts:14:24 @They passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia.

nasb@Acts:14:25 @When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

nasb@Acts:14:26 @From there they sailed to Antioch, from which they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had accomplished.

nasb@Acts:14:27 @When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

nasb@Acts:14:28 @And they spent a long time with the disciples.

nasb@Acts:15:1 @Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

nasb@Acts:15:2 @And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.

nasb@Acts:15:3 @Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.

nasb@Acts:15:4 @When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.

nasb@Acts:15:5 @But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses."

nasb@Acts:15:6 @The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

nasb@Acts:15:7 @After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.

nasb@Acts:15:8" @And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us;

nasb@Acts:15:9 @and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

nasb@Acts:15:10" @Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

nasb@Acts:15:11" @But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are."

nasb@Acts:15:12 @All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

nasb@Acts:15:13 @After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Brethren, listen to me.

nasb@Acts:15:14" @ Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.

nasb@Acts:15:15" @With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,

nasb@Acts:15:17 @SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'

nasb@Acts:15:18 @SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

nasb@Acts:15:19" @Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

nasb@Acts:15:20 @but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

nasb@Acts:15:21" @For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."

nasb@Acts:15:22 @Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas--Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

nasb@Acts:15:23 @and they sent this letter by them, " The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, greetings.

nasb@Acts:15:24" @Since we have heard that some of our number to whom we gave no instruction have disturbed you with their words, unsettling your souls,

nasb@Acts:15:25 @it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

nasb@Acts:15:26 @men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Acts:15:27" @Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will also report the same things by word of mouth.

nasb@Acts:15:28" @For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials-

nasb@Acts:15:29 @that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."

nasb@Acts:15:30 @So when they were sent away, they went down to Antioch; and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

nasb@Acts:15:31 @When they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

nasb@Acts:15:32 @Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brethren with a lengthy message.

nasb@Acts:15:33 @After they had spent time there, they were sent away from the brethren in peace to those who had sent them out.

nasb@Acts:15:34 @[ But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.]

nasb@Acts:15:35 @But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others also, the word of the Lord.

nasb@Acts:15:36 @After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."

nasb@Acts:15:37 @Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also.

nasb@Acts:15:38 @But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

nasb@Acts:15:39 @And there occurred such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

nasb@Acts:15:40 @But Paul chose Silas and left, being committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

nasb@Acts:15:41 @And he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

nasb@Acts:16:1 @Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,

nasb@Acts:16:2 @and he was well spoken of by the brethren who were in Lystra and Iconium.

nasb@Acts:16:3 @Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

nasb@Acts:16:4 @Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the decrees which had been decided upon by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem, for them to observe.

nasb@Acts:16:5 @So the churches were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily.

nasb@Acts:16:6 @They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;

nasb@Acts:16:7 @and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

nasb@Acts:16:8 @and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

nasb@Acts:16:9 @A vision appeared to Paul in the night- a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."

nasb@Acts:16:10 @When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

nasb@Acts:16:11 @So putting out to sea from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

nasb@Acts:16:12 @and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia, a Roman colony; and we were staying in this city for some days.

nasb@Acts:16:13 @And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

nasb@Acts:16:14 @A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

nasb@Acts:16:15 @And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

nasb@Acts:16:16 @It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

nasb@Acts:16:17 @Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."

nasb@Acts:16:18 @She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out at that very moment.

nasb@Acts:16:19 @But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,

nasb@Acts:16:20 @and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

nasb@Acts:16:21 @and are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

nasb@Acts:16:22 @The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.

nasb@Acts:16:23 @When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;

nasb@Acts:16:24 @and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

nasb@Acts:16:25 @But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

nasb@Acts:16:26 @and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.

nasb@Acts:16:27 @When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

nasb@Acts:16:28 @But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!"

nasb@Acts:16:29 @And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,

nasb@Acts:16:30 @and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

nasb@Acts:16:31 @They said, " Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."

nasb@Acts:16:32 @And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house.

nasb@Acts:16:33 @And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.

nasb@Acts:16:34 @And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

nasb@Acts:16:35 @Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, "Release those men."

nasb@Acts:16:36 @And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The chief magistrates have sent to release you. Therefore come out now and go in peace."

nasb@Acts:16:37 @But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out."

nasb@Acts:16:38 @The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

nasb@Acts:16:39 @and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

nasb@Acts:16:40 @They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia, and when they saw the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

nasb@Acts:17:1 @Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

nasb@Acts:17:2 @And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

nasb@Acts:17:3 @explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, " This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."

nasb@Acts:17:4 @And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women.

nasb@Acts:17:5 @But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

nasb@Acts:17:6 @When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have upset the world have come here also;

nasb@Acts:17:7 @and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."

nasb@Acts:17:8 @They stirred up the crowd and the city authorities who heard these things.

nasb@Acts:17:9 @And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.

nasb@Acts:17:10 @The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

nasb@Acts:17:11 @Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

nasb@Acts:17:12 @Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

nasb@Acts:17:13 @But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

nasb@Acts:17:14 @Then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

nasb@Acts:17:15 @Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

nasb@Acts:17:16 @Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

nasb@Acts:17:17 @So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

nasb@Acts:17:18 @And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

nasb@Acts:17:19 @And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?

nasb@Acts:17:20" @For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."

nasb@Acts:17:21 @(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

nasb@Acts:17:22 @So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.

nasb@Acts:17:23" @For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

nasb@Acts:17:24" @ The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

nasb@Acts:17:25 @nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

nasb@Acts:17:26 @and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

nasb@Acts:17:27 @that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

nasb@Acts:17:28 @for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'

nasb@Acts:17:29" @Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

nasb@Acts:17:30" @Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

nasb@Acts:17:31 @because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."

nasb@Acts:17:32 @Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again concerning this."

nasb@Acts:17:33 @So Paul went out of their midst.

nasb@Acts:17:34 @But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

nasb@Acts:18:1 @After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

nasb@Acts:18:2 @And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

nasb@Acts:18:3 @and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

nasb@Acts:18:4 @And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

nasb@Acts:18:5 @But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

nasb@Acts:18:6 @But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

nasb@Acts:18:7 @Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.

nasb@Acts:18:8 @Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.

nasb@Acts:18:9 @And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

nasb@Acts:18:10 @for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

nasb@Acts:18:11 @And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

nasb@Acts:18:12 @But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

nasb@Acts:18:13 @saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

nasb@Acts:18:14 @But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;

nasb@Acts:18:15 @but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters."

nasb@Acts:18:16 @And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

nasb@Acts:18:17 @And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

nasb@Acts:18:18 @Paul, having remained many days longer, took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for Syria, and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchrea he had his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.

nasb@Acts:18:19 @They came to Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

nasb@Acts:18:20 @When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,

nasb@Acts:18:21 @but taking leave of them and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

nasb@Acts:18:22 @When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

nasb@Acts:18:23 @And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

nasb@Acts:18:24 @Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

nasb@Acts:18:25 @This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

nasb@Acts:18:26 @and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

nasb@Acts:18:27 @And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

nasb@Acts:18:28 @for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

nasb@Acts:19:1 @It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.

nasb@Acts:19:2 @He said to them, " Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit."

nasb@Acts:19:3 @And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" And they said, " Into John's baptism."

nasb@Acts:19:4 @Paul said, " John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus."

nasb@Acts:19:5 @When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

nasb@Acts:19:6 @And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.

nasb@Acts:19:7 @There were in all about twelve men.

nasb@Acts:19:8 @And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

nasb@Acts:19:9 @But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

nasb@Acts:19:10 @This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

nasb@Acts:19:11 @God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

nasb@Acts:19:12 @so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.

nasb@Acts:19:13 @But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

nasb@Acts:19:14 @Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

nasb@Acts:19:15 @And the evil spirit answered and said to them, "I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?"

nasb@Acts:19:16 @And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

nasb@Acts:19:17 @This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

nasb@Acts:19:18 @Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

nasb@Acts:19:19 @And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

nasb@Acts:19:20 @So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.

nasb@Acts:19:21 @Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

nasb@Acts:19:22 @And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

nasb@Acts:19:23 @About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.

nasb@Acts:19:24 @For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen;

nasb@Acts:19:25 @these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.

nasb@Acts:19:26" @You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.

nasb@Acts:19:27" @Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence."

nasb@Acts:19:28 @When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

nasb@Acts:19:29 @The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia.

nasb@Acts:19:30 @And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him.

nasb@Acts:19:31 @Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.

nasb@Acts:19:32 @So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.

nasb@Acts:19:33 @Some of the crowd concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly.

nasb@Acts:19:34 @But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

nasb@Acts:19:35 @After quieting the crowd, the town clerk said, "Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

nasb@Acts:19:36" @So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.

nasb@Acts:19:37" @For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

nasb@Acts:19:38" @So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against any man, the courts are in session and proconsuls are available; let them bring charges against one another.

nasb@Acts:19:39" @But if you want anything beyond this, it shall be settled in the lawful assembly.

nasb@Acts:19:40" @For indeed we are in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today's events, since there is no real cause for it, and in this connection we will be unable to account for this disorderly gathering."

nasb@Acts:19:41 @After saying this he dismissed the assembly.

nasb@Acts:20:1 @After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had exhorted them and taken his leave of them, he left to go to Macedonia.

nasb@Acts:20:2 @When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.

nasb@Acts:20:3 @And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

nasb@Acts:20:4 @And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

nasb@Acts:20:5 @But these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas.

nasb@Acts:20:6 @We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days.

nasb@Acts:20:7 @On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

nasb@Acts:20:8 @There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together.

nasb@Acts:20:9 @And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

nasb@Acts:20:10 @But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, "Do not be troubled, for his life is in him."

nasb@Acts:20:11 @When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

nasb@Acts:20:12 @They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.

nasb@Acts:20:13 @But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.

nasb@Acts:20:14 @And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

nasb@Acts:20:15 @Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus.

nasb@Acts:20:16 @For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

nasb@Acts:20:17 @From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.

nasb@Acts:20:18 @And when they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

nasb@Acts:20:19 @serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

nasb@Acts:20:20 @how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house,

nasb@Acts:20:21 @solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Acts:20:22" @And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

nasb@Acts:20:23 @except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

nasb@Acts:20:24" @But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

nasb@Acts:20:25" @And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.

nasb@Acts:20:26" @Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

nasb@Acts:20:27" @For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

nasb@Acts:20:28" @Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

nasb@Acts:20:29" @I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

nasb@Acts:20:30 @and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

nasb@Acts:20:31" @Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

nasb@Acts:20:32" @And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

nasb@Acts:20:33" @ I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes.

nasb@Acts:20:34" @You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.

nasb@Acts:20:35" @In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

nasb@Acts:20:36 @When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

nasb@Acts:20:37 @And they began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

nasb@Acts:20:38 @grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship.

nasb@Acts:21:1 @When we had parted from them and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara;

nasb@Acts:21:2 @and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

nasb@Acts:21:3 @When we came in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we kept sailing to Syria and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload its cargo.

nasb@Acts:21:4 @After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

nasb@Acts:21:5 @When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

nasb@Acts:21:6 @Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

nasb@Acts:21:7 @When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brethren, we stayed with them for a day.

nasb@Acts:21:8 @On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entering the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we stayed with him.

nasb@Acts:21:9 @Now this man had four virgin daughters who were prophetesses.

nasb@Acts:21:10 @As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

nasb@Acts:21:11 @And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says- 'In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

nasb@Acts:21:12 @When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

nasb@Acts:21:13 @Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

nasb@Acts:21:14 @And since he would not be persuaded, we fell silent, remarking, " The will of the Lord be done!"

nasb@Acts:21:15 @After these days we got ready and started on our way up to Jerusalem.

nasb@Acts:21:16 @Some of the disciples from Caesarea also came with us, taking us to Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple of long standing with whom we were to lodge.

nasb@Acts:21:17 @After we arrived in Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

nasb@Acts:21:18 @And the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.

nasb@Acts:21:19 @After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

nasb@Acts:21:20 @And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;

nasb@Acts:21:21 @and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

nasb@Acts:21:22" @What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

nasb@Acts:21:23" @Therefore do this that we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;

nasb@Acts:21:24 @take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

nasb@Acts:21:25" @But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."

nasb@Acts:21:26 @Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself along with them, went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

nasb@Acts:21:27 @When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

nasb@Acts:21:28 @crying out, "Men of Israel, come to our aid! This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."

nasb@Acts:21:29 @For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

nasb@Acts:21:30 @Then all the city was provoked, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

nasb@Acts:21:31 @While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

nasb@Acts:21:32 @At once he took along some soldiers and centurions and ran down to them; and when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

nasb@Acts:21:33 @Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.

nasb@Acts:21:34 @But among the crowd some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

nasb@Acts:21:35 @When he got to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;

nasb@Acts:21:36 @for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, " Away with him!"

nasb@Acts:21:37 @As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commander, "May I say something to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek?

nasb@Acts:21:38" @Then you are not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?"

nasb@Acts:21:39 @But Paul said, " I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people."

nasb@Acts:21:40 @When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, motioned to the people with his hand; and when there was a great hush, he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, saying,

nasb@Acts:22:1" @ Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you."

nasb@Acts:22:2 @And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,

nasb@Acts:22:3" @ I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

nasb@Acts:22:4" @ I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

nasb@Acts:22:5 @as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

nasb@Acts:22:6" @ But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,

nasb@Acts:22:7 @and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'

nasb@Acts:22:8" @And I answered, 'Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'

nasb@Acts:22:9" @And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

nasb@Acts:22:10" @And I said, ' What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.'

nasb@Acts:22:11" @But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.

nasb@Acts:22:12" @A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

nasb@Acts:22:13 @came to me, and standing near said to me, ' Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And at that very time I looked up at him.

nasb@Acts:22:14" @And he said, ' The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.

nasb@Acts:22:15 @'For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

nasb@Acts:22:16 @'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'

nasb@Acts:22:17" @It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,

nasb@Acts:22:18 @and I saw Him saying to me, ' Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

nasb@Acts:22:19" @And I said, 'Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

nasb@Acts:22:20 @'And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.'

nasb@Acts:22:21" @And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

nasb@Acts:22:22 @They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, " Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!"

nasb@Acts:22:23 @And as they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,

nasb@Acts:22:24 @the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.

nasb@Acts:22:25 @But when they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?"

nasb@Acts:22:26 @When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and told him, saying, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman."

nasb@Acts:22:27 @The commander came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" And he said, "Yes."

nasb@Acts:22:28 @The commander answered, "I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money." And Paul said, "But I was actually born a citizen."

nasb@Acts:22:29 @Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains.

nasb@Acts:22:30 @But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

nasb@Acts:23:1 @Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, " Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day."

nasb@Acts:23:2 @The high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth.

nasb@Acts:23:3 @Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

nasb@Acts:23:4 @But the bystanders said, "Do you revile God's high priest?"

nasb@Acts:23:5 @And Paul said, "I was not aware, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, ' YOU SHALL NOT SPEAK EVIL OF A RULER OF YOUR PEOPLE.'"

nasb@Acts:23:6 @But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, " Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!"

nasb@Acts:23:7 @As he said this, there occurred a dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

nasb@Acts:23:8 @For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

nasb@Acts:23:9 @And there occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, " We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

nasb@Acts:23:10 @And as a great dissension was developing, the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them and ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

nasb@Acts:23:11 @But on the night immediately following, the Lord stood at his side and said, " Take courage; for as you have solemnly witnessed to My cause at Jerusalem, so you must witness at Rome also."

nasb@Acts:23:12 @When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

nasb@Acts:23:13 @There were more than forty who formed this plot.

nasb@Acts:23:14 @They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

nasb@Acts:23:15" @Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place."

nasb@Acts:23:16 @But the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, and he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

nasb@Acts:23:17 @Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, "Lead this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him."

nasb@Acts:23:18 @So he took him and led him to the commander and said, "Paul the prisoner called me to him and asked me to lead this young man to you since he has something to tell you."

nasb@Acts:23:19 @The commander took him by the hand and stepping aside, began to inquire of him privately, "What is it that you have to report to me?"

nasb@Acts:23:20 @And he said, " The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Council, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more thoroughly about him.

nasb@Acts:23:21" @So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you."

nasb@Acts:23:22 @So the commander let the young man go, instructing him, "Tell no one that you have notified me of these things."

nasb@Acts:23:23 @And he called to him two of the centurions and said, "Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen."

nasb@Acts:23:24 @They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

nasb@Acts:23:25 @And he wrote a letter having this form-

nasb@Acts:23:26" @Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings.

nasb@Acts:23:27" @When this man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be slain by them, I came up to them with the troops and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

nasb@Acts:23:28" @And wanting to ascertain the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Council;

nasb@Acts:23:29 @and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.

nasb@Acts:23:30" @When I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing his accusers to bring charges against him before you."

nasb@Acts:23:31 @So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

nasb@Acts:23:32 @But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.

nasb@Acts:23:33 @When these had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

nasb@Acts:23:34 @When he had read it, he asked from what province he was, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia,

nasb@Acts:23:35 @he said, "I will give you a hearing after your accusers arrive also," giving orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

nasb@Acts:24:1 @After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.

nasb@Acts:24:2 @After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor, "Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence reforms are being carried out for this nation,

nasb@Acts:24:3 @we acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

nasb@Acts:24:4" @But, that I may not weary you any further, I beg you to grant us, by your kindness, a brief hearing.

nasb@Acts:24:5" @For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

nasb@Acts:24:6" @And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [ We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.

nasb@Acts:24:7" @But Lysias the commander came along, and with much violence took him out of our hands,

nasb@Acts:24:8 @ordering his accusers to come before you.] By examining him yourself concerning all these matters you will be able to ascertain the things of which we accuse him."

nasb@Acts:24:9 @The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

nasb@Acts:24:10 @When the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded- "Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,

nasb@Acts:24:11 @since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

nasb@Acts:24:12" @ Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot.

nasb@Acts:24:13" @ Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

nasb@Acts:24:14" @But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

nasb@Acts:24:15 @having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

nasb@Acts:24:16" @In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

nasb@Acts:24:17" @Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

nasb@Acts:24:18 @in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia--

nasb@Acts:24:19 @who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

nasb@Acts:24:20" @Or else let these men themselves tell what misdeed they found when I stood before the Council,

nasb@Acts:24:21 @other than for this one statement which I shouted out while standing among them, 'For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.'"

nasb@Acts:24:22 @But Felix, having a more exact knowledge about the Way, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

nasb@Acts:24:23 @Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.

nasb@Acts:24:24 @But some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Acts:24:25 @But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you."

nasb@Acts:24:26 @At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him.

nasb@Acts:24:27 @But after two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul imprisoned.

nasb@Acts:25:1 @Festus then, having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

nasb@Acts:25:2 @And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were urging him,

nasb@Acts:25:3 @requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

nasb@Acts:25:4 @Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.

nasb@Acts:25:5" @Therefore," he said, "let the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them prosecute him."

nasb@Acts:25:6 @After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

nasb@Acts:25:7 @After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,

nasb@Acts:25:8 @while Paul said in his own defense, " I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar."

nasb@Acts:25:9 @But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, " Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me on these charges?"

nasb@Acts:25:10 @But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

nasb@Acts:25:11" @If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar."

nasb@Acts:25:12 @Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, "You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go."

nasb@Acts:25:13 @Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.

nasb@Acts:25:14 @While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;

nasb@Acts:25:15 @and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

nasb@Acts:25:16" @I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to make his defense against the charges.

nasb@Acts:25:17" @So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

nasb@Acts:25:18" @When the accusers stood up, they began bringing charges against him not of such crimes as I was expecting,

nasb@Acts:25:19 @but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

nasb@Acts:25:20" @ Being at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there stand trial on these matters.

nasb@Acts:25:21" @But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for the Emperor's decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I send him to Caesar."

nasb@Acts:25:22 @Then Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."

nasb@Acts:25:23 @So, on the next day when Agrippa came together with Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the auditorium accompanied by the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

nasb@Acts:25:24 @Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.

nasb@Acts:25:25" @But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

nasb@Acts:25:26" @Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

nasb@Acts:25:27" @For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him."

nasb@Acts:25:26 @Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and proceeded to make his defense-

nasb@Acts:25:2" @In regard to all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am about to make my defense before you today;

nasb@Acts:25:3 @especially because you are an expert in all customs and questions among the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

nasb@Acts:25:4" @So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

nasb@Acts:25:5 @since they have known about me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.

nasb@Acts:25:6" @And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;

nasb@Acts:25:7 @the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.

nasb@Acts:25:8" @Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?

nasb@Acts:25:9" @So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

nasb@Acts:25:10" @And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.

nasb@Acts:25:11" @And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

nasb@Acts:25:12" @While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

nasb@Acts:25:13 @at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.

nasb@Acts:25:14" @And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

nasb@Acts:25:15" @And I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

nasb@Acts:25:16 @'But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

nasb@Acts:25:17 @rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

nasb@Acts:25:18 @to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'

nasb@Acts:25:19" @So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,

nasb@Acts:25:20 @but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.

nasb@Acts:25:21" @For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

nasb@Acts:25:22" @So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;

nasb@Acts:25:23 @that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

nasb@Acts:25:24 @While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad."

nasb@Acts:25:25 @But Paul said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.

nasb@Acts:25:26" @For the king knows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner.

nasb@Acts:25:27" @King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? I know that you do."

nasb@Acts:25:28 @Agrippa replied to Paul, "In a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian."

nasb@Acts:25:29 @And Paul said, "I would wish to God, that whether in a short or long time, not only you, but also all who hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these chains."

nasb@Acts:25:30 @The king stood up and the governor and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them,

nasb@Acts:25:31 @and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, " This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment."

nasb@Acts:25:32 @And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

nasb@Acts:26:1 @When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

nasb@Acts:26:2 @And embarking in an Adramyttian ship, which was about to sail to the regions along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica.

nasb@Acts:26:3 @The next day we put in at Sidon; and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care.

nasb@Acts:26:4 @From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were contrary.

nasb@Acts:26:5 @When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

nasb@Acts:26:6 @There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

nasb@Acts:26:7 @When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;

nasb@Acts:26:8 @and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

nasb@Acts:26:9 @When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

nasb@Acts:26:10 @and said to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."

nasb@Acts:26:11 @But the centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul.

nasb@Acts:26:12 @Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

nasb@Acts:26:13 @When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.

nasb@Acts:26:14 @But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called Euraquilo;

nasb@Acts:26:15 @and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

nasb@Acts:26:16 @Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the ship's boat under control.

nasb@Acts:26:17 @After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

nasb@Acts:26:18 @The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo;

nasb@Acts:26:19 @and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

nasb@Acts:26:20 @Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.

nasb@Acts:26:21 @When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, " Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

nasb@Acts:26:22" @Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

nasb@Acts:26:23" @For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

nasb@Acts:26:24 @saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.'

nasb@Acts:26:25" @Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

nasb@Acts:26:26" @But we must run aground on a certain island."

nasb@Acts:26:27 @But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.

nasb@Acts:26:28 @They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

nasb@Acts:26:29 @Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.

nasb@Acts:26:30 @But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,

nasb@Acts:26:31 @Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these men remain in the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved."

nasb@Acts:26:32 @Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away.

nasb@Acts:26:33 @Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.

nasb@Acts:26:34" @Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."

nasb@Acts:26:35 @Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.

nasb@Acts:26:36 @All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

nasb@Acts:26:37 @All of us in the ship were two hundred and seventy-six persons.

nasb@Acts:26:38 @When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

nasb@Acts:26:39 @When day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could.

nasb@Acts:26:40 @And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach.

nasb@Acts:26:41 @But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves.

nasb@Acts:26:42 @The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

nasb@Acts:26:43 @but the centurion, wanting to bring Paul safely through, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,

nasb@Acts:26:44 @and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.

nasb@Acts:27:1 @When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

nasb@Acts:27:2 @The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all.

nasb@Acts:27:3 @But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

nasb@Acts:27:4 @When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, " Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live."

nasb@Acts:27:5 @However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

nasb@Acts:27:6 @But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

nasb@Acts:27:7 @Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.

nasb@Acts:27:8 @And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

nasb@Acts:27:9 @After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.

nasb@Acts:27:10 @They also honored us with many marks of respect; and when we were setting sail, they supplied us with all we needed.

nasb@Acts:27:11 @At the end of three months we set sail on an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and which had the Twin Brothers for its figurehead.

nasb@Acts:27:12 @After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.

nasb@Acts:27:13 @From there we sailed around and arrived at Rhegium, and a day later a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

nasb@Acts:27:14 @There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days; and thus we came to Rome.

nasb@Acts:27:15 @And the brethren, when they heard about us, came from there as far as the Market of Appius and Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

nasb@Acts:27:16 @When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

nasb@Acts:27:17 @After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, " Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

nasb@Acts:27:18" @And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

nasb@Acts:27:19" @But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any accusation against my nation.

nasb@Acts:27:20" @For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel."

nasb@Acts:27:21 @They said to him, "We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you.

nasb@Acts:27:22" @But we desire to hear from you what your views are; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere."

nasb@Acts:27:23 @When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

nasb@Acts:27:24 @Some were being persuaded by the things spoken, but others would not believe.

nasb@Acts:27:25 @And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, "The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,

nasb@Acts:27:26 @saying, ' GO TO THIS PEOPLE AND SAY, " YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE;

nasb@Acts:27:27 @FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, AND WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES; OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM."'

nasb@Acts:27:28" @Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen."

nasb@Acts:27:29 @[ When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.]

nasb@Acts:27:30 @And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him,

nasb@Acts:27:31 @preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness, unhindered.

nasb@Romans:1:1 @Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

nasb@Romans:1:2 @which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,

nasb@Romans:1:3 @concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh,

nasb@Romans:1:4 @who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,

nasb@Romans:1:5 @through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name's sake,

nasb@Romans:1:6 @among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;

nasb@Romans:1:7 @to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Romans:1:8 @First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

nasb@Romans:1:9 @For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,

nasb@Romans:1:10 @always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.

nasb@Romans:1:11 @For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;

nasb@Romans:1:12 @that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

nasb@Romans:1:13 @I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

nasb@Romans:1:14 @I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

nasb@Romans:1:15 @So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

nasb@Romans:1:16 @For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

nasb@Romans:1:17 @For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, " BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

nasb@Romans:1:18 @For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

nasb@Romans:1:19 @because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.

nasb@Romans:1:20 @For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

nasb@Romans:1:21 @For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

nasb@Romans:1:22 @Professing to be wise, they became fools,

nasb@Romans:1:23 @and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

nasb@Romans:1:24 @Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

nasb@Romans:1:25 @For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

nasb@Romans:1:26 @For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,

nasb@Romans:1:27 @and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

nasb@Romans:1:28 @And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

nasb@Romans:1:29 @being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

nasb@Romans:1:30 @slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

nasb@Romans:1:31 @without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

nasb@Romans:1:32 @and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

nasb@Romans:2:1 @Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

nasb@Romans:2:2 @And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.

nasb@Romans:2:3 @But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

nasb@Romans:2:4 @Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

nasb@Romans:2:5 @But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

nasb@Romans:2:6 @who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS-

nasb@Romans:2:7 @to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

nasb@Romans:2:8 @but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

nasb@Romans:2:9 @There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

nasb@Romans:2:10 @but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

nasb@Romans:2:11 @For there is no partiality with God.

nasb@Romans:2:12 @For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;

nasb@Romans:2:13 @for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

nasb@Romans:2:14 @For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,

nasb@Romans:2:15 @in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

nasb@Romans:2:16 @on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.

nasb@Romans:2:17 @But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

nasb@Romans:2:18 @and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,

nasb@Romans:2:19 @and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

nasb@Romans:2:20 @a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

nasb@Romans:2:21 @you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?

nasb@Romans:2:22 @You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

nasb@Romans:2:23 @You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

nasb@Romans:2:24 @For " THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written.

nasb@Romans:2:25 @For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

nasb@Romans:2:26 @So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

nasb@Romans:2:27 @And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?

nasb@Romans:2:28 @For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

nasb@Romans:2:29 @But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.

nasb@Romans:3:1 @Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

nasb@Romans:3:2 @Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

nasb@Romans:3:3 @What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

nasb@Romans:3:4 @May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, " THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED."

nasb@Romans:3:5 @But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? ( I am speaking in human terms.)

nasb@Romans:3:6 @May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

nasb@Romans:3:7 @But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

nasb@Romans:3:8 @And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), " Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

nasb@Romans:3:9 @What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

nasb@Romans:3:10 @as it is written, " THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;

nasb@Romans:3:11 @THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;

nasb@Romans:3:12 @ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."

nasb@Romans:3:13" @ THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," " THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";

nasb@Romans:3:14" @ WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";

nasb@Romans:3:15" @ THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,

nasb@Romans:3:16 @DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,

nasb@Romans:3:17 @AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."

nasb@Romans:3:18" @ THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."

nasb@Romans:3:19 @Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

nasb@Romans:3:20 @because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

nasb@Romans:3:21 @But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

nasb@Romans:3:22 @even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

nasb@Romans:3:23 @for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

nasb@Romans:3:24 @being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

nasb@Romans:3:25 @whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

nasb@Romans:3:26 @for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

nasb@Romans:3:27 @Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

nasb@Romans:3:28 @For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

nasb@Romans:3:29 @Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

nasb@Romans:3:30 @since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

nasb@Romans:3:31 @Do we then nullify the Law through faithNULL May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

nasb@Romans:4:1 @What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

nasb@Romans:4:2 @For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

nasb@Romans:4:3 @For what does the Scripture say? " ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

nasb@Romans:4:4 @Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.

nasb@Romans:4:5 @But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

nasb@Romans:4:6 @just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works-

nasb@Romans:4:7" @ BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.

nasb@Romans:4:8" @ BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

nasb@Romans:4:9 @Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, " FAITH WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

nasb@Romans:4:10 @How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;

nasb@Romans:4:11 @and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

nasb@Romans:4:12 @and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.

nasb@Romans:4:13 @For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

nasb@Romans:4:14 @For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;

nasb@Romans:4:15 @for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

nasb@Romans:4:16 @For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

nasb@Romans:4:17 @(as it is written, " A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU") in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

nasb@Romans:4:18 @In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, " SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE."

nasb@Romans:4:19 @Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

nasb@Romans:4:20 @yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,

nasb@Romans:4:21 @and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

nasb@Romans:4:22 @Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

nasb@Romans:4:23 @Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,

nasb@Romans:4:24 @but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

nasb@Romans:4:25 @He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

nasb@Romans:5:1 @Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@Romans:5:2 @through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.

nasb@Romans:5:3 @And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;

nasb@Romans:5:4 @and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

nasb@Romans:5:5 @and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

nasb@Romans:5:6 @For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

nasb@Romans:5:7 @For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

nasb@Romans:5:8 @But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

nasb@Romans:5:9 @Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

nasb@Romans:5:10 @For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

nasb@Romans:5:11 @And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

nasb@Romans:5:12 @Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--

nasb@Romans:5:13 @for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

nasb@Romans:5:14 @Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

nasb@Romans:5:15 @But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

nasb@Romans:5:16 @The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.

nasb@Romans:5:17 @For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

nasb@Romans:5:18 @So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

nasb@Romans:5:19 @For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

nasb@Romans:5:20 @The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

nasb@Romans:5:21 @so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

nasb@Romans:6:1 @What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

nasb@Romans:6:2 @May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

nasb@Romans:6:3 @Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

nasb@Romans:6:4 @Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

nasb@Romans:6:5 @For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

nasb@Romans:6:6 @knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

nasb@Romans:6:7 @for he who has died is freed from sin.

nasb@Romans:6:8 @Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

nasb@Romans:6:9 @knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

nasb@Romans:6:10 @For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

nasb@Romans:6:11 @Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Romans:6:12 @Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

nasb@Romans:6:13 @and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

nasb@Romans:6:14 @For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

nasb@Romans:6:15 @What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

nasb@Romans:6:16 @Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

nasb@Romans:6:17 @But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

nasb@Romans:6:18 @and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

nasb@Romans:6:19 @I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

nasb@Romans:6:20 @For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

nasb@Romans:6:21 @Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

nasb@Romans:6:22 @But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

nasb@Romans:6:23 @For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nasb@Romans:7:1 @Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?

nasb@Romans:7:2 @For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

nasb@Romans:7:3 @So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

nasb@Romans:7:4 @Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

nasb@Romans:7:5 @For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

nasb@Romans:7:6 @But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

nasb@Romans:7:7 @What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, " YOU SHALL NOT COVET."

nasb@Romans:7:8 @But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.

nasb@Romans:7:9 @I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

nasb@Romans:7:10 @and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

nasb@Romans:7:11 @for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

nasb@Romans:7:12 @So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

nasb@Romans:7:13 @Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

nasb@Romans:7:14 @For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

nasb@Romans:7:15 @For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

nasb@Romans:7:16 @But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

nasb@Romans:7:17 @So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

nasb@Romans:7:18 @For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

nasb@Romans:7:19 @For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

nasb@Romans:7:20 @But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

nasb@Romans:7:21 @I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

nasb@Romans:7:22 @For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

nasb@Romans:7:23 @but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

nasb@Romans:7:24 @Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

nasb@Romans:7:25 @Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

nasb@Romans:8:1 @Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Romans:8:2 @For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

nasb@Romans:8:3 @For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did- sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

nasb@Romans:8:4 @so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

nasb@Romans:8:5 @For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

nasb@Romans:8:6 @For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

nasb@Romans:8:7 @because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

nasb@Romans:8:8 @and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

nasb@Romans:8:9 @However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

nasb@Romans:8:10 @If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

nasb@Romans:8:11 @But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

nasb@Romans:8:12 @So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--

nasb@Romans:8:13 @for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

nasb@Romans:8:14 @For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

nasb@Romans:8:15 @For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, " Abba! Father!"

nasb@Romans:8:16 @The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

nasb@Romans:8:17 @and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

nasb@Romans:8:18 @For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

nasb@Romans:8:19 @For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

nasb@Romans:8:20 @For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

nasb@Romans:8:21 @that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

nasb@Romans:8:22 @For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

nasb@Romans:8:23 @And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

nasb@Romans:8:24 @For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

nasb@Romans:8:25 @But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

nasb@Romans:8:26 @In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

nasb@Romans:8:27 @and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

nasb@Romans:8:28 @And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

nasb@Romans:8:29 @For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

nasb@Romans:8:30 @and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

nasb@Romans:8:31 @What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

nasb@Romans:8:32 @He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

nasb@Romans:8:33 @Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;

nasb@Romans:8:34 @who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

nasb@Romans:8:35 @Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nasb@Romans:8:36 @Just as it is written, " FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

nasb@Romans:8:37 @But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

nasb@Romans:8:38 @For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

nasb@Romans:8:39 @nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nasb@Romans:9:1 @I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

nasb@Romans:9:2 @that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

nasb@Romans:9:3 @For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

nasb@Romans:9:4 @who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

nasb@Romans:9:5 @whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

nasb@Romans:9:6 @But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;

nasb@Romans:9:7 @nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but- " THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED."

nasb@Romans:9:8 @That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

nasb@Romans:9:9 @For this is the word of promise- " AT THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON."

nasb@Romans:9:10 @And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;

nasb@Romans:9:11 @for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

nasb@Romans:9:12 @it was said to her, " THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."

nasb@Romans:9:13 @Just as it is written, " JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."

nasb@Romans:9:14 @What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

nasb@Romans:9:15 @For He says to Moses, " I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."

nasb@Romans:9:16 @So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

nasb@Romans:9:17 @For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, " FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."

nasb@Romans:9:18 @So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

nasb@Romans:9:19 @You will say to me then, " Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"

nasb@Romans:9:20 @On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?

nasb@Romans:9:21 @Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

nasb@Romans:9:22 @What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

nasb@Romans:9:23 @And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

nasb@Romans:9:24 @even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

nasb@Romans:9:25 @As He says also in Hosea, " I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'"

nasb@Romans:9:26" @ AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD."

nasb@Romans:9:27 @Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, " THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;

nasb@Romans:9:28 @FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY."

nasb@Romans:9:29 @And just as Isaiah foretold, " UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH."

nasb@Romans:9:30 @What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

nasb@Romans:9:31 @but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

nasb@Romans:9:32 @Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

nasb@Romans:9:33 @just as it is written, " BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

nasb@Romans:10:1 @Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

nasb@Romans:10:2 @For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

nasb@Romans:10:3 @For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

nasb@Romans:10:4 @For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

nasb@Romans:10:5 @For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

nasb@Romans:10:6 @But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows- " DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?' (that is, to bring Christ down),

nasb@Romans:10:7 @or 'WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."

nasb@Romans:10:8 @But what does it say? " THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

nasb@Romans:10:9 @that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

nasb@Romans:10:10 @for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

nasb@Romans:10:11 @For the Scripture says, " WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

nasb@Romans:10:12 @For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;

nasb@Romans:10:13 @for " WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."

nasb@Romans:10:14 @How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?

nasb@Romans:10:15 @How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, " HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!"

nasb@Romans:10:16 @However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, " LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?"

nasb@Romans:10:17 @So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

nasb@Romans:10:18 @But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have; " THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD."

nasb@Romans:10:19 @But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, " I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU."

nasb@Romans:10:20 @And Isaiah is very bold and says, " I WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK ME, I BECAME MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR ME."

nasb@Romans:10:21 @But as for Israel He says, " ALL THE DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS TO A DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATE PEOPLE."

nasb@Romans:11:1 @I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

nasb@Romans:11:2 @God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

nasb@Romans:11:3" @Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE."

nasb@Romans:11:4 @But what is the divine response to him? " I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL."

nasb@Romans:11:5 @In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.

nasb@Romans:11:6 @But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

nasb@Romans:11:7 @What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

nasb@Romans:11:8 @just as it is written, " GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY."

nasb@Romans:11:9 @And David says, " LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.

nasb@Romans:11:10" @ LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED TO SEE NOT, AND BEND THEIR BACKS FOREVER."

nasb@Romans:11:11 @I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

nasb@Romans:11:12 @Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!

nasb@Romans:11:13 @But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

nasb@Romans:11:14 @if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.

nasb@Romans:11:15 @For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

nasb@Romans:11:16 @If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

nasb@Romans:11:17 @But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,

nasb@Romans:11:18 @do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.

nasb@Romans:11:19 @You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

nasb@Romans:11:20 @Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

nasb@Romans:11:21 @for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.

nasb@Romans:11:22 @Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

nasb@Romans:11:23 @And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

nasb@Romans:11:24 @For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

nasb@Romans:11:25 @For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

nasb@Romans:11:26 @and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, " THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."

nasb@Romans:11:27" @ THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."

nasb@Romans:11:28 @From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;

nasb@Romans:11:29 @for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

nasb@Romans:11:30 @For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,

nasb@Romans:11:31 @so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.

nasb@Romans:11:32 @For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.

nasb@Romans:11:33 @Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

nasb@Romans:11:34 @For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?

nasb@Romans:11:35 @Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN?

nasb@Romans:11:36 @For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

nasb@Romans:12:1 @Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

nasb@Romans:12:2 @And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

nasb@Romans:12:3 @For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

nasb@Romans:12:4 @For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

nasb@Romans:12:5 @so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

nasb@Romans:12:6 @Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly- if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

nasb@Romans:12:7 @if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

nasb@Romans:12:8 @or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

nasb@Romans:12:9 @Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

nasb@Romans:12:10 @Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

nasb@Romans:12:11 @not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

nasb@Romans:12:12 @rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,

nasb@Romans:12:13 @contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

nasb@Romans:12:14 @Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

nasb@Romans:12:15 @Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

nasb@Romans:12:16 @Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

nasb@Romans:12:17 @Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

nasb@Romans:12:18 @If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

nasb@Romans:12:19 @Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, " VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.

nasb@Romans:12:20" @ BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD."

nasb@Romans:12:21 @Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

nasb@Romans:13:1 @Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.

nasb@Romans:13:2 @Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

nasb@Romans:13:3 @For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;

nasb@Romans:13:4 @for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

nasb@Romans:13:5 @Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

nasb@Romans:13:6 @For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

nasb@Romans:13:7 @Render to all what is due them- tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

nasb@Romans:13:8 @Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

nasb@Romans:13:9 @For this, " YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

nasb@Romans:13:10 @Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

nasb@Romans:13:11 @Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

nasb@Romans:13:12 @The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

nasb@Romans:13:13 @Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

nasb@Romans:13:14 @But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

nasb@Romans:14:1 @Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.

nasb@Romans:14:2 @One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.

nasb@Romans:14:3 @The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

nasb@Romans:14:4 @Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

nasb@Romans:14:5 @One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

nasb@Romans:14:6 @He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.

nasb@Romans:14:7 @For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;

nasb@Romans:14:8 @for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

nasb@Romans:14:9 @For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

nasb@Romans:14:10 @But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

nasb@Romans:14:11 @For it is written, " AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD."

nasb@Romans:14:12 @So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

nasb@Romans:14:13 @Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this-- not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.

nasb@Romans:14:14 @I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

nasb@Romans:14:15 @For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

nasb@Romans:14:16 @Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;

nasb@Romans:14:17 @for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Romans:14:18 @For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

nasb@Romans:14:19 @So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

nasb@Romans:14:20 @Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.

nasb@Romans:14:21 @It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

nasb@Romans:14:22 @The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

nasb@Romans:14:23 @But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

nasb@Romans:15:1 @Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.

nasb@Romans:15:2 @Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.

nasb@Romans:15:3 @For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, " THE REPROACHES OF THOSE WHO REPROACHED YOU FELL ON ME."

nasb@Romans:15:4 @For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

nasb@Romans:15:5 @Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

nasb@Romans:15:6 @so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Romans:15:7 @Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.

nasb@Romans:15:8 @For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,

nasb@Romans:15:9 @and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, " THEREFORE I WILL GIVE PRAISE TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES, AND I WILL SING TO YOUR NAME."

nasb@Romans:15:10 @Again he says, " REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE."

nasb@Romans:15:11 @And again, " PRAISE THE LORD ALL YOU GENTILES, AND LET ALL THE PEOPLES PRAISE HIM."

nasb@Romans:15:12 @Again Isaiah says, " THERE SHALL COME THE ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE WHO ARISES TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM SHALL THE GENTILES HOPE."

nasb@Romans:15:13 @Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Romans:15:14 @And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.

nasb@Romans:15:15 @But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

nasb@Romans:15:16 @to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

nasb@Romans:15:17 @Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.

nasb@Romans:15:18 @For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

nasb@Romans:15:19 @in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

nasb@Romans:15:20 @And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man's foundation;

nasb@Romans:15:21 @but as it is written, " THEY WHO HAD NO NEWS OF HIM SHALL SEE, AND THEY WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND."

nasb@Romans:15:22 @For this reason I have often been prevented from coming to you;

nasb@Romans:15:23 @but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you

nasb@Romans:15:24 @whenever I go to Spain--for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while--

nasb@Romans:15:25 @but now, I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints.

nasb@Romans:15:26 @For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

nasb@Romans:15:27 @Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.

nasb@Romans:15:28 @Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

nasb@Romans:15:29 @I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

nasb@Romans:15:30 @Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

nasb@Romans:15:31 @that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;

nasb@Romans:15:32 @so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.

nasb@Romans:15:33 @Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

nasb@Romans:16:1 @I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea;

nasb@Romans:16:2 @that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been a helper of many, and of myself as well.

nasb@Romans:16:3 @Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

nasb@Romans:16:4 @who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

nasb@Romans:16:5 @also greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.

nasb@Romans:16:6 @Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.

nasb@Romans:16:7 @Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

nasb@Romans:16:8 @Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

nasb@Romans:16:9 @Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

nasb@Romans:16:10 @Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

nasb@Romans:16:11 @Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

nasb@Romans:16:12 @Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who has worked hard in the Lord.

nasb@Romans:16:13 @Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

nasb@Romans:16:14 @Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brethren with them.

nasb@Romans:16:15 @Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

nasb@Romans:16:16 @Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

nasb@Romans:16:17 @Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

nasb@Romans:16:18 @For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

nasb@Romans:16:19 @For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

nasb@Romans:16:20 @The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

nasb@Romans:16:21 @Timothy my fellow worker greets you, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

nasb@Romans:16:22 @I, Tertius, who write this letter, greet you in the Lord.

nasb@Romans:16:23 @Gaius, host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus, the brother.

nasb@Romans:16:24 @[ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]

nasb@Romans:16:25 @Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,

nasb@Romans:16:26 @but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;

nasb@Romans:16:27 @to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:1 @Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:2 @To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours-

nasb@1Corinthians:1:3 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:4 @I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:5 @that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:6 @even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:7 @so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:8 @who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:9 @God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:10 @Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:11 @For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:12 @Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ."

nasb@1Corinthians:1:13 @Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

nasb@1Corinthians:1:14 @I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:15 @so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:16 @Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:17 @For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:18 @For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:19 @For it is written, " I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE."

nasb@1Corinthians:1:20 @Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

nasb@1Corinthians:1:21 @For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:22 @For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom;

nasb@1Corinthians:1:23 @but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:24 @but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:25 @Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:26 @For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

nasb@1Corinthians:1:27 @but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:28 @and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:29 @so that no man may boast before God.

nasb@1Corinthians:1:30 @But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

nasb@1Corinthians:1:31 @so that, just as it is written, " LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD."

nasb@1Corinthians:2:1 @And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:2 @For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:3 @I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

nasb@1Corinthians:2:4 @and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

nasb@1Corinthians:2:5 @so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:6 @Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

nasb@1Corinthians:2:7 @but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

nasb@1Corinthians:2:8 @the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

nasb@1Corinthians:2:9 @but just as it is written, " THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."

nasb@1Corinthians:2:10 @For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:11 @For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:12 @Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

nasb@1Corinthians:2:13 @which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:14 @But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:15 @But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

nasb@1Corinthians:2:16 @For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIMNULL But we have the mind of Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:1 @And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:2 @I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

nasb@1Corinthians:3:3 @for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

nasb@1Corinthians:3:4 @For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

nasb@1Corinthians:3:5 @What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:6 @I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:7 @So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:8 @Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:9 @For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:10 @According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:11 @For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:12 @Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

nasb@1Corinthians:3:13 @each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:14 @If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:15 @If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:16 @Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

nasb@1Corinthians:3:17 @If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:18 @Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.

nasb@1Corinthians:3:19 @For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS";

nasb@1Corinthians:3:20 @and again, " THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS."

nasb@1Corinthians:3:21 @So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,

nasb@1Corinthians:3:22 @whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,

nasb@1Corinthians:3:23 @and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:1 @Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:2 @In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:3 @But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:4 @For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:5 @Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:6 @Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:7 @For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

nasb@1Corinthians:4:8 @You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:9 @For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:10 @We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:11 @To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

nasb@1Corinthians:4:12 @and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

nasb@1Corinthians:4:13 @when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:14 @I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:15 @For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:16 @Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:17 @For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:18 @Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:19 @But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:20 @For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.

nasb@1Corinthians:4:21 @What do you desireNULL Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentlenessNULL

nasb@1Corinthians:5:1 @It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:2 @You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:3 @For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:4 @In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

nasb@1Corinthians:5:5 @I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:6 @Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

nasb@1Corinthians:5:7 @Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:8 @Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:9 @I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

nasb@1Corinthians:5:10 @I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:11 @But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.

nasb@1Corinthians:5:12 @For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?

nasb@1Corinthians:5:13 @But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:1 @Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:2 @Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:3 @Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:4 @So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:5 @I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,

nasb@1Corinthians:6:6 @but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:7 @Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:8 @On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:9 @Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

nasb@1Corinthians:6:10 @nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:11 @Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:12 @All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:13 @Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:14 @Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:15 @Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

nasb@1Corinthians:6:16 @Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, " THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."

nasb@1Corinthians:6:17 @But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:18 @Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

nasb@1Corinthians:6:19 @Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

nasb@1Corinthians:6:20 @For you have been bought with a price- therefore glorify God in your body.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:1 @Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:2 @But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:3 @The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:4 @The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:5 @Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:6 @But this I say by way of concession, not of command.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:7 @Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:8 @But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:9 @But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:10 @But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

nasb@1Corinthians:7:11 @(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:12 @But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:13 @And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:14 @For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:15 @Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:16 @For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

nasb@1Corinthians:7:17 @Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:18 @Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:19 @Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:20 @Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:21 @Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:22 @For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ's slave.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:23 @You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:24 @Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:25 @Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:26 @I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:27 @Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:28 @But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:29 @But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

nasb@1Corinthians:7:30 @and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

nasb@1Corinthians:7:31 @and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:32 @But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

nasb@1Corinthians:7:33 @but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

nasb@1Corinthians:7:34 @and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:35 @This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:36 @But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:37 @But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:38 @So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:39 @A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:7:40 @But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:1 @Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:2 @If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

nasb@1Corinthians:8:3 @but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:4 @Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:5 @For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

nasb@1Corinthians:8:6 @yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:7 @However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:8 @But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:9 @But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:10 @For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

nasb@1Corinthians:8:11 @For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:12 @And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:8:13 @Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:1 @Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:2 @If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:3 @My defense to those who examine me is this-

nasb@1Corinthians:9:4 @Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:5 @Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:6 @Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:7 @Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:8 @I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:9 @For it is written in the Law of Moses, " YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING." God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:10 @Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:11 @If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:12 @If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:13 @Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

nasb@1Corinthians:9:14 @So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:15 @But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:16 @For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:17 @For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:18 @What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:19 @For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:20 @To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;

nasb@1Corinthians:9:21 @to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:22 @To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:23 @I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:24 @Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:25 @Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

nasb@1Corinthians:9:26 @Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;

nasb@1Corinthians:9:27 @but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:1 @For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:2 @and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:3 @and all ate the same spiritual food;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:4 @and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:5 @Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:6 @Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:7 @Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, " THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY."

nasb@1Corinthians:10:8 @Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:9 @Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:10 @Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:11 @Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:12 @Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:13 @No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:14 @Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:15 @I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:16 @Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:17 @Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:18 @Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:19 @What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:20 @No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:21 @You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:22 @Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:23 @All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:24 @Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:25 @Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience' sake;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:26 @FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:27 @If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:28 @But if anyone says to you, "This is meat sacrificed to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:29 @I mean not your own conscience, but the other man's; for why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:30 @If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

nasb@1Corinthians:10:31 @Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:10:32 @Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

nasb@1Corinthians:10:33 @just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:1 @Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:2 @Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:3 @But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:4 @Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:5 @But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:6 @For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:7 @For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:8 @For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

nasb@1Corinthians:11:9 @for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:10 @Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:11 @However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:12 @For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:13 @Judge for yourselves- is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

nasb@1Corinthians:11:14 @Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

nasb@1Corinthians:11:15 @but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:16 @But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:17 @But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:18 @For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:19 @For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:20 @Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,

nasb@1Corinthians:11:21 @for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:22 @What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:23 @For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

nasb@1Corinthians:11:24 @and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

nasb@1Corinthians:11:25 @In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

nasb@1Corinthians:11:26 @For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:27 @Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:28 @But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:29 @For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:30 @For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:31 @But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:32 @But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:33 @So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

nasb@1Corinthians:11:34 @If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:1 @Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:2 @You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:3 @Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed"; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:4 @Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:5 @And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:6 @There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:7 @But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:8 @For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

nasb@1Corinthians:12:9 @to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

nasb@1Corinthians:12:10 @and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:11 @But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:12 @For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:13 @For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:14 @For the body is not one member, but many.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:15 @If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:16 @And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:17 @If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

nasb@1Corinthians:12:18 @But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:19 @If they were all one member, where would the body be?

nasb@1Corinthians:12:20 @But now there are many members, but one body.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:21 @And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."

nasb@1Corinthians:12:22 @On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

nasb@1Corinthians:12:23 @and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

nasb@1Corinthians:12:24 @whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,

nasb@1Corinthians:12:25 @so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:26 @And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:27 @Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:28 @And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

nasb@1Corinthians:12:29 @All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?

nasb@1Corinthians:12:30 @All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

nasb@1Corinthians:12:31 @But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:1 @If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:2 @If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:3 @And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:4 @Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

nasb@1Corinthians:13:5 @does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

nasb@1Corinthians:13:6 @does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

nasb@1Corinthians:13:7 @bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:8 @Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:9 @For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

nasb@1Corinthians:13:10 @but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:11 @When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:12 @For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

nasb@1Corinthians:13:13 @But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:1 @Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:2 @For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:3 @But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:4 @One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:5 @Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:6 @But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:7 @Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:8 @For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:9 @So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:10 @There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:11 @If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:12 @So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:13 @Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:14 @For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:15 @What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:16 @Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:17 @For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:18 @I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all;

nasb@1Corinthians:14:19 @however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:20 @Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:21 @In the Law it is written, " BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:22 @So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:23 @Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:24 @But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;

nasb@1Corinthians:14:25 @the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:26 @What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:27 @If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;

nasb@1Corinthians:14:28 @but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:29 @Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:30 @But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:31 @For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

nasb@1Corinthians:14:32 @and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;

nasb@1Corinthians:14:33 @for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:34 @The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:35 @If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:36 @Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

nasb@1Corinthians:14:37 @If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:38 @But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:39 @Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

nasb@1Corinthians:14:40 @But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:1 @Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

nasb@1Corinthians:15:2 @by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:3 @For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

nasb@1Corinthians:15:4 @and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

nasb@1Corinthians:15:5 @and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:6 @After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:7 @then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:8 @and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:9 @For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:10 @But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:11 @Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:12 @Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

nasb@1Corinthians:15:13 @But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:14 @and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:15 @Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:16 @For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:17 @and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:18 @Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:19 @If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:20 @But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:21 @For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:22 @For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:23 @But each in his own order- Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming,

nasb@1Corinthians:15:24 @then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:25 @For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:26 @The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:27 @For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, " All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:28 @When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:29 @Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

nasb@1Corinthians:15:30 @Why are we also in danger every hour?

nasb@1Corinthians:15:31 @I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:32 @If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:33 @Do not be deceived- "Bad company corrupts good morals."

nasb@1Corinthians:15:34 @Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:35 @But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

nasb@1Corinthians:15:36 @You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:37 @and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:38 @But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:39 @All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:40 @There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:41 @There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:42 @So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:43 @it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:44 @it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:45 @So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:46 @However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:47 @The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:48 @As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:49 @Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:50 @Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:51 @Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

nasb@1Corinthians:15:52 @in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:53 @For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:54 @But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, " DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:55" @ O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?"

nasb@1Corinthians:15:56 @The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

nasb@1Corinthians:15:57 @but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Corinthians:15:58 @Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:1 @Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:2 @On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:3 @When I arrive, whomever you may approve, I will send them with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem;

nasb@1Corinthians:16:4 @and if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:5 @But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia;

nasb@1Corinthians:16:6 @and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:7 @For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:8 @But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;

nasb@1Corinthians:16:9 @for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:10 @Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I also am.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:11 @So let no one despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:12 @But concerning Apollos our brother, I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:13 @Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:14 @Let all that you do be done in love.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:15 @Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),

nasb@1Corinthians:16:16 @that you also be in subjection to such men and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:17 @I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:18 @For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:19 @The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:20 @All the brethren greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:21 @The greeting is in my own hand--Paul.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:22 @If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:23 @The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

nasb@1Corinthians:16:24 @My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia-

nasb@2Corinthians:1:2 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:3 @Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

nasb@2Corinthians:1:4 @who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:5 @For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:6 @But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

nasb@2Corinthians:1:7 @and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:8 @For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

nasb@2Corinthians:1:9 @indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

nasb@2Corinthians:1:10 @who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

nasb@2Corinthians:1:11 @you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:12 @For our proud confidence is this- the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:13 @For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

nasb@2Corinthians:1:14 @just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:15 @In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

nasb@2Corinthians:1:16 @that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:17 @Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

nasb@2Corinthians:1:18 @But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:19 @For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us--by me and Silvanus and Timothy--was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:20 @For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:21 @Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

nasb@2Corinthians:1:22 @who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:23 @But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

nasb@2Corinthians:1:24 @Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:1 @But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:2 @For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

nasb@2Corinthians:2:3 @This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:4 @For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:5 @But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree--in order not to say too much--to all of you.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:6 @Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority,

nasb@2Corinthians:2:7 @so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:8 @Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:9 @For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:10 @But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

nasb@2Corinthians:2:11 @so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:12 @Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord,

nasb@2Corinthians:2:13 @I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:14 @But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

nasb@2Corinthians:2:15 @For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

nasb@2Corinthians:2:16 @to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

nasb@2Corinthians:2:17 @For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:1 @Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

nasb@2Corinthians:3:2 @You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

nasb@2Corinthians:3:3 @being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:4 @Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:5 @Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

nasb@2Corinthians:3:6 @who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:7 @But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

nasb@2Corinthians:3:8 @how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

nasb@2Corinthians:3:9 @For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:10 @For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:11 @For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:12 @Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,

nasb@2Corinthians:3:13 @and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:14 @But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:15 @But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

nasb@2Corinthians:3:16 @but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:17 @Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

nasb@2Corinthians:3:18 @But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:1 @Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

nasb@2Corinthians:4:2 @but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:3 @And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

nasb@2Corinthians:4:4 @in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:5 @For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:6 @For God, who said, " Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:7 @But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

nasb@2Corinthians:4:8 @we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

nasb@2Corinthians:4:9 @persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

nasb@2Corinthians:4:10 @always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:11 @For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:12 @So death works in us, but life in you.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:13 @But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, " I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE," we also believe, therefore we also speak,

nasb@2Corinthians:4:14 @knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:15 @For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:16 @Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

nasb@2Corinthians:4:17 @For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

nasb@2Corinthians:4:18 @while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:1 @For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:2 @For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,

nasb@2Corinthians:5:3 @inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:4 @For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:5 @Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:6 @Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

nasb@2Corinthians:5:7 @for we walk by faith, not by sight--

nasb@2Corinthians:5:8 @we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:9 @Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:10 @For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:11 @Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:12 @We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:13 @For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:14 @For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

nasb@2Corinthians:5:15 @and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:16 @Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:17 @Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:18 @Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

nasb@2Corinthians:5:19 @namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:20 @Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

nasb@2Corinthians:5:21 @He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:1 @And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain--

nasb@2Corinthians:6:2 @for He says, " AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU, AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU." Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME," behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION"--

nasb@2Corinthians:6:3 @giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:4 @but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:5 @in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:6 @in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:7 @in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:8 @by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;

nasb@2Corinthians:6:9 @as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

nasb@2Corinthians:6:10 @as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:11 @Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:12 @You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:13 @Now in a like exchange--I speak as to children--open wide to us also.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:14 @Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

nasb@2Corinthians:6:15 @Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

nasb@2Corinthians:6:16 @Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, " I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:17" @ Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you.

nasb@2Corinthians:6:18" @ And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me," Says the Lord Almighty.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:1 @Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:2 @Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:3 @I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:4 @Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:5 @For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side- conflicts without, fears within.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:6 @But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

nasb@2Corinthians:7:7 @and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced even more.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:8 @For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it--for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while--

nasb@2Corinthians:7:9 @I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:10 @For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:11 @For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you- what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:12 @So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:13 @For this reason we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:14 @For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:15 @His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

nasb@2Corinthians:7:16 @I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:1 @Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

nasb@2Corinthians:8:2 @that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:3 @For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,

nasb@2Corinthians:8:4 @begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,

nasb@2Corinthians:8:5 @and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:6 @So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:7 @But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:8 @I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:9 @For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:10 @I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:11 @But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:12 @For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:13 @For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality--

nasb@2Corinthians:8:14 @at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

nasb@2Corinthians:8:15 @as it is written, " HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK."

nasb@2Corinthians:8:16 @But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:17 @For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:18 @We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches;

nasb@2Corinthians:8:19 @and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,

nasb@2Corinthians:8:20 @taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift;

nasb@2Corinthians:8:21 @for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:22 @We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:23 @As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:8:24 @Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:1 @For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

nasb@2Corinthians:9:2 @for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:3 @But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

nasb@2Corinthians:9:4 @otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to speak of you--will be put to shame by this confidence.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:5 @So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:6 @Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:7 @Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:8 @And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

nasb@2Corinthians:9:9 @as it is written, " HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER."

nasb@2Corinthians:9:10 @Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

nasb@2Corinthians:9:11 @you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:12 @For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:13 @Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,

nasb@2Corinthians:9:14 @while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

nasb@2Corinthians:9:15 @Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

nasb@2Corinthians:10:1 @Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ--I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

nasb@2Corinthians:10:2 @I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:3 @For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

nasb@2Corinthians:10:4 @for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:5 @We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

nasb@2Corinthians:10:6 @and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:7 @You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:8 @For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

nasb@2Corinthians:10:9 @for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:10 @For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."

nasb@2Corinthians:10:11 @Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:12 @For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:13 @But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:14 @For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

nasb@2Corinthians:10:15 @not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

nasb@2Corinthians:10:16 @so as to preach the gospel even to the regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:17 @But HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD.

nasb@2Corinthians:10:18 @For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:1 @I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:2 @For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:3 @But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:4 @For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:5 @For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:6 @But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:7 @Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

nasb@2Corinthians:11:8 @I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;

nasb@2Corinthians:11:9 @and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:10 @As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:11 @Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

nasb@2Corinthians:11:12 @But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:13 @For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:14 @No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:15 @Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:16 @Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:17 @What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:18 @Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:19 @For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:20 @For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:21 @To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison. But in whatever respect anyone else is bold--I speak in foolishness--I am just as bold myself.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:22 @Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:23 @Are they servants of Christ?--I speak as if insane--I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:24 @Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:25 @Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:26 @I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;

nasb@2Corinthians:11:27 @I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:28 @Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:29 @Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

nasb@2Corinthians:11:30 @If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:31 @The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

nasb@2Corinthians:11:32 @In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

nasb@2Corinthians:11:33 @and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:1 @Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:2 @I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:3 @And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--

nasb@2Corinthians:12:4 @was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:5 @On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:6 @For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:7 @Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself!

nasb@2Corinthians:12:8 @Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:9 @And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:10 @Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:11 @I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:12 @The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with all perseverance, by signs and wonders and miracles.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:13 @For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

nasb@2Corinthians:12:14 @Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:15 @I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

nasb@2Corinthians:12:16 @But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took you in by deceit.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:17 @Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

nasb@2Corinthians:12:18 @I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?

nasb@2Corinthians:12:19 @All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

nasb@2Corinthians:12:20 @For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

nasb@2Corinthians:12:21 @I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:1 @This is the third time I am coming to you. EVERY FACT IS TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:2 @I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

nasb@2Corinthians:13:3 @since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:4 @For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:5 @Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test?

nasb@2Corinthians:13:6 @But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:7 @Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:8 @For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:9 @For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:10 @For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:11 @Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:12 @Greet one another with a holy kiss.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:13 @All the saints greet you.

nasb@2Corinthians:13:14 @The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

nasb@Galatians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle ( not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

nasb@Galatians:1:2 @and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia-

nasb@Galatians:1:3 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@Galatians:1:4 @who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

nasb@Galatians:1:5 @to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.

nasb@Galatians:1:6 @I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;

nasb@Galatians:1:7 @which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

nasb@Galatians:1:8 @But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

nasb@Galatians:1:9 @As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!

nasb@Galatians:1:10 @For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

nasb@Galatians:1:11 @For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

nasb@Galatians:1:12 @For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

nasb@Galatians:1:13 @For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

nasb@Galatians:1:14 @and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.

nasb@Galatians:1:15 @But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased

nasb@Galatians:1:16 @to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

nasb@Galatians:1:17 @nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.

nasb@Galatians:1:18 @Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days.

nasb@Galatians:1:19 @But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother.

nasb@Galatians:1:20 @(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.)

nasb@Galatians:1:21 @Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

nasb@Galatians:1:22 @I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ;

nasb@Galatians:1:23 @but only, they kept hearing, "He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy."

nasb@Galatians:1:24 @And they were glorifying God because of me.

nasb@Galatians:2:1 @Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.

nasb@Galatians:2:2 @It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

nasb@Galatians:2:3 @But not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

nasb@Galatians:2:4 @But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

nasb@Galatians:2:5 @But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

nasb@Galatians:2:6 @But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)--well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me.

nasb@Galatians:2:7 @But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised

nasb@Galatians:2:8 @(for He who effectually worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Gentiles),

nasb@Galatians:2:9 @and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

nasb@Galatians:2:10 @They only asked us to remember the poor-- the very thing I also was eager to do.

nasb@Galatians:2:11 @But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

nasb@Galatians:2:12 @For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision.

nasb@Galatians:2:13 @The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

nasb@Galatians:2:14 @But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

nasb@Galatians:2:15" @We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

nasb@Galatians:2:16 @nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

nasb@Galatians:2:17" @But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!

nasb@Galatians:2:18" @For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

nasb@Galatians:2:19" @For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

nasb@Galatians:2:20" @I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

nasb@Galatians:2:21" @I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly."

nasb@Galatians:3:1 @You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

nasb@Galatians:3:2 @This is the only thing I want to find out from you- did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

nasb@Galatians:3:3 @Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

nasb@Galatians:3:4 @Did you suffer so many things in vain-- if indeed it was in vain?

nasb@Galatians:3:5 @So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

nasb@Galatians:3:6 @Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

nasb@Galatians:3:7 @Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.

nasb@Galatians:3:8 @The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, " ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU."

nasb@Galatians:3:9 @So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.

nasb@Galatians:3:11 @Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, " THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

nasb@Galatians:3:12 @However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, " HE WHO PRACTICES THEM SHALL LIVE BY THEM."

nasb@Galatians:3:13 @Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, " CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"--

nasb@Galatians:3:14 @in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

nasb@Galatians:3:15 @Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations- even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.

nasb@Galatians:3:16 @Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, " And to your seed," that is, Christ.

nasb@Galatians:3:17 @What I am saying is this- the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

nasb@Galatians:3:18 @For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

nasb@Galatians:3:19 @Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

nasb@Galatians:3:20 @Now a mediator is not for one party only; whereas God is only one.

nasb@Galatians:3:21 @Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

nasb@Galatians:3:22 @But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

nasb@Galatians:3:23 @But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

nasb@Galatians:3:24 @Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.

nasb@Galatians:3:25 @But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

nasb@Galatians:3:26 @For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Galatians:3:27 @For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

nasb@Galatians:3:28 @There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Galatians:3:29 @And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise.

nasb@Galatians:4:1 @Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

nasb@Galatians:4:2 @but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

nasb@Galatians:4:3 @So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.

nasb@Galatians:4:4 @But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

nasb@Galatians:4:5 @so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

nasb@Galatians:4:6 @Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, " Abba! Father!"

nasb@Galatians:4:7 @Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

nasb@Galatians:4:8 @However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

nasb@Galatians:4:9 @But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

nasb@Galatians:4:10 @You observe days and months and seasons and years.

nasb@Galatians:4:11 @I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

nasb@Galatians:4:12 @I beg of you, brethren, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;

nasb@Galatians:4:13 @but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;

nasb@Galatians:4:14 @and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

nasb@Galatians:4:15 @Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

nasb@Galatians:4:16 @So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

nasb@Galatians:4:17 @They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them.

nasb@Galatians:4:18 @But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable manner, and not only when I am present with you.

nasb@Galatians:4:19 @My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you--

nasb@Galatians:4:20 @but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

nasb@Galatians:4:21 @Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?

nasb@Galatians:4:22 @For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

nasb@Galatians:4:23 @But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

nasb@Galatians:4:24 @This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants- one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

nasb@Galatians:4:25 @Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

nasb@Galatians:4:26 @But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

nasb@Galatians:4:27 @For it is written, " REJOICE, BARREN WOMAN WHO DOES NOT BEAR; FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR; FOR MORE NUMEROUS ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE THAN OF THE ONE WHO HAS A HUSBAND."

nasb@Galatians:4:28 @And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

nasb@Galatians:4:29 @But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

nasb@Galatians:4:30 @But what does the Scripture say? " CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN."

nasb@Galatians:4:31 @So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.

nasb@Galatians:5:1 @It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

nasb@Galatians:5:2 @Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

nasb@Galatians:5:3 @And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

nasb@Galatians:5:4 @You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

nasb@Galatians:5:5 @For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

nasb@Galatians:5:6 @For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

nasb@Galatians:5:7 @You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

nasb@Galatians:5:8 @This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

nasb@Galatians:5:9 @A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

nasb@Galatians:5:10 @I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

nasb@Galatians:5:11 @But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

nasb@Galatians:5:12 @I wish that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves.

nasb@Galatians:5:13 @For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

nasb@Galatians:5:14 @For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

nasb@Galatians:5:15 @But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

nasb@Galatians:5:16 @But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

nasb@Galatians:5:17 @For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

nasb@Galatians:5:18 @But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

nasb@Galatians:5:19 @Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are- immorality, impurity, sensuality,

nasb@Galatians:5:20 @idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,

nasb@Galatians:5:21 @envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

nasb@Galatians:5:22 @But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

nasb@Galatians:5:23 @gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

nasb@Galatians:5:24 @Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

nasb@Galatians:5:25 @If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

nasb@Galatians:5:26 @Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

nasb@Galatians:6:1 @Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

nasb@Galatians:6:2 @Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

nasb@Galatians:6:3 @For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

nasb@Galatians:6:4 @But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

nasb@Galatians:6:5 @For each one will bear his own load.

nasb@Galatians:6:6 @The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him.

nasb@Galatians:6:7 @Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

nasb@Galatians:6:8 @For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

nasb@Galatians:6:9 @Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

nasb@Galatians:6:10 @So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

nasb@Galatians:6:11 @See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

nasb@Galatians:6:12 @Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

nasb@Galatians:6:13 @For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

nasb@Galatians:6:14 @But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

nasb@Galatians:6:15 @For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

nasb@Galatians:6:16 @And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

nasb@Galatians:6:17 @From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand-marks of Jesus.

nasb@Galatians:6:18 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

nasb@Ephesians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus-

nasb@Ephesians:1:2 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Ephesians:1:3 @Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

nasb@Ephesians:1:4 @just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

nasb@Ephesians:1:5 @He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

nasb@Ephesians:1:6 @to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

nasb@Ephesians:1:7 @In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

nasb@Ephesians:1:8 @which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight

nasb@Ephesians:1:9 @He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

nasb@Ephesians:1:10 @with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

nasb@Ephesians:1:11 @also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

nasb@Ephesians:1:12 @to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

nasb@Ephesians:1:13 @In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

nasb@Ephesians:1:14 @who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.

nasb@Ephesians:1:15 @For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,

nasb@Ephesians:1:16 @do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;

nasb@Ephesians:1:17 @that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

nasb@Ephesians:1:18 @I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

nasb@Ephesians:1:19 @and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might

nasb@Ephesians:1:20 @which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

nasb@Ephesians:1:21 @far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

nasb@Ephesians:1:22 @And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

nasb@Ephesians:1:23 @which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

nasb@Ephesians:2:1 @And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

nasb@Ephesians:2:2 @in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

nasb@Ephesians:2:3 @Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

nasb@Ephesians:2:4 @But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

nasb@Ephesians:2:5 @even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ ( by grace you have been saved),

nasb@Ephesians:2:6 @and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

nasb@Ephesians:2:7 @so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Ephesians:2:8 @For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

nasb@Ephesians:2:9 @not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

nasb@Ephesians:2:10 @For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

nasb@Ephesians:2:11 @Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called " Uncircumcision" by the so-called " Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands--

nasb@Ephesians:2:12 @remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

nasb@Ephesians:2:13 @But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

nasb@Ephesians:2:14 @For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

nasb@Ephesians:2:15 @by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,

nasb@Ephesians:2:16 @and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.

nasb@Ephesians:2:17 @AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR;

nasb@Ephesians:2:18 @for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

nasb@Ephesians:2:19 @So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household,

nasb@Ephesians:2:20 @having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

nasb@Ephesians:2:21 @in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,

nasb@Ephesians:2:22 @in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

nasb@Ephesians:3:1 @For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles--

nasb@Ephesians:3:2 @if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace which was given to me for you;

nasb@Ephesians:3:3 @that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.

nasb@Ephesians:3:4 @By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

nasb@Ephesians:3:5 @which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

nasb@Ephesians:3:6 @to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

nasb@Ephesians:3:7 @of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

nasb@Ephesians:3:8 @To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

nasb@Ephesians:3:9 @and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

nasb@Ephesians:3:10 @so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

nasb@Ephesians:3:11 @This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

nasb@Ephesians:3:12 @in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.

nasb@Ephesians:3:13 @Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory.

nasb@Ephesians:3:14 @For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

nasb@Ephesians:3:15 @from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

nasb@Ephesians:3:16 @that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

nasb@Ephesians:3:17 @so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

nasb@Ephesians:3:18 @may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

nasb@Ephesians:3:19 @and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

nasb@Ephesians:3:20 @Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

nasb@Ephesians:3:21 @to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@Ephesians:4:1 @Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

nasb@Ephesians:4:2 @with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

nasb@Ephesians:4:3 @being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

nasb@Ephesians:4:4 @There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

nasb@Ephesians:4:5 @one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

nasb@Ephesians:4:6 @one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

nasb@Ephesians:4:7 @But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

nasb@Ephesians:4:8 @Therefore it says, " WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN."

nasb@Ephesians:4:9 @(Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?

nasb@Ephesians:4:10 @He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)

nasb@Ephesians:4:11 @And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

nasb@Ephesians:4:12 @for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

nasb@Ephesians:4:13 @until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

nasb@Ephesians:4:14 @As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

nasb@Ephesians:4:15 @but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

nasb@Ephesians:4:16 @from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

nasb@Ephesians:4:17 @So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

nasb@Ephesians:4:18 @being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

nasb@Ephesians:4:19 @and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

nasb@Ephesians:4:20 @But you did not learn Christ in this way,

nasb@Ephesians:4:21 @if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,

nasb@Ephesians:4:22 @that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

nasb@Ephesians:4:23 @and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

nasb@Ephesians:4:24 @and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

nasb@Ephesians:4:25 @Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.

nasb@Ephesians:4:26 @BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

nasb@Ephesians:4:27 @and do not give the devil an opportunity.

nasb@Ephesians:4:28 @He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

nasb@Ephesians:4:29 @Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

nasb@Ephesians:4:30 @Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

nasb@Ephesians:4:31 @Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

nasb@Ephesians:4:32 @Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

nasb@Ephesians:5:1 @Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

nasb@Ephesians:5:2 @and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

nasb@Ephesians:5:3 @But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

nasb@Ephesians:5:4 @and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

nasb@Ephesians:5:5 @For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

nasb@Ephesians:5:6 @Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

nasb@Ephesians:5:7 @Therefore do not be partakers with them;

nasb@Ephesians:5:8 @for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light

nasb@Ephesians:5:9 @(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

nasb@Ephesians:5:10 @trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

nasb@Ephesians:5:11 @Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

nasb@Ephesians:5:12 @for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

nasb@Ephesians:5:13 @But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.

nasb@Ephesians:5:14 @For this reason it says, " Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you."

nasb@Ephesians:5:15 @Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,

nasb@Ephesians:5:16 @making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

nasb@Ephesians:5:17 @So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

nasb@Ephesians:5:18 @And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

nasb@Ephesians:5:19 @speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

nasb@Ephesians:5:20 @always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

nasb@Ephesians:5:21 @and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

nasb@Ephesians:5:22 @Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

nasb@Ephesians:5:23 @For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

nasb@Ephesians:5:24 @But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

nasb@Ephesians:5:25 @Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

nasb@Ephesians:5:26 @so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

nasb@Ephesians:5:27 @that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

nasb@Ephesians:5:28 @So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

nasb@Ephesians:5:29 @for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

nasb@Ephesians:5:30 @because we are members of His body.

nasb@Ephesians:5:31 @FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.

nasb@Ephesians:5:32 @This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

nasb@Ephesians:5:33 @Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

nasb@Ephesians:6:1 @Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

nasb@Ephesians:6:2 @HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),

nasb@Ephesians:6:3 @SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.

nasb@Ephesians:6:4 @Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

nasb@Ephesians:6:5 @Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

nasb@Ephesians:6:6 @not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

nasb@Ephesians:6:7 @With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

nasb@Ephesians:6:8 @knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

nasb@Ephesians:6:9 @And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

nasb@Ephesians:6:10 @Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.

nasb@Ephesians:6:11 @Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

nasb@Ephesians:6:12 @For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

nasb@Ephesians:6:13 @Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

nasb@Ephesians:6:14 @Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,

nasb@Ephesians:6:15 @and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE;

nasb@Ephesians:6:16 @in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

nasb@Ephesians:6:17 @And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

nasb@Ephesians:6:18 @With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

nasb@Ephesians:6:19 @and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

nasb@Ephesians:6:20 @for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

nasb@Ephesians:6:21 @But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

nasb@Ephesians:6:22 @I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

nasb@Ephesians:6:23 @Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Ephesians:6:24 @Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.

nasb@Philippians:1:1 @Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons-

nasb@Philippians:1:2 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Philippians:1:3 @I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

nasb@Philippians:1:4 @always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,

nasb@Philippians:1:5 @in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

nasb@Philippians:1:6 @For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:1:7 @For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

nasb@Philippians:1:8 @For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:1:9 @And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

nasb@Philippians:1:10 @so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

nasb@Philippians:1:11 @having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

nasb@Philippians:1:12 @Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,

nasb@Philippians:1:13 @so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,

nasb@Philippians:1:14 @and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.

nasb@Philippians:1:15 @Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will;

nasb@Philippians:1:16 @the latter do it out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel;

nasb@Philippians:1:17 @the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

nasb@Philippians:1:18 @What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

nasb@Philippians:1:19 @for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

nasb@Philippians:1:20 @according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

nasb@Philippians:1:21 @For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

nasb@Philippians:1:22 @But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.

nasb@Philippians:1:23 @But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;

nasb@Philippians:1:24 @yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

nasb@Philippians:1:25 @Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

nasb@Philippians:1:26 @so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

nasb@Philippians:1:27 @Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

nasb@Philippians:1:28 @in no way alarmed by your opponents--which is a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from God.

nasb@Philippians:1:29 @For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

nasb@Philippians:1:30 @experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

nasb@Philippians:2:1 @Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

nasb@Philippians:2:2 @make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

nasb@Philippians:2:3 @Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

nasb@Philippians:2:4 @do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

nasb@Philippians:2:5 @Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

nasb@Philippians:2:6 @who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

nasb@Philippians:2:7 @but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

nasb@Philippians:2:8 @Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

nasb@Philippians:2:9 @For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

nasb@Philippians:2:10 @so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

nasb@Philippians:2:11 @and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

nasb@Philippians:2:12 @So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

nasb@Philippians:2:13 @for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

nasb@Philippians:2:14 @Do all things without grumbling or disputing;

nasb@Philippians:2:15 @so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,

nasb@Philippians:2:16 @holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

nasb@Philippians:2:17 @But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

nasb@Philippians:2:18 @You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

nasb@Philippians:2:19 @But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

nasb@Philippians:2:20 @For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

nasb@Philippians:2:21 @For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:2:22 @But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

nasb@Philippians:2:23 @Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

nasb@Philippians:2:24 @and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.

nasb@Philippians:2:25 @But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need;

nasb@Philippians:2:26 @because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

nasb@Philippians:2:27 @For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

nasb@Philippians:2:28 @Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

nasb@Philippians:2:29 @Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard;

nasb@Philippians:2:30 @because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me.

nasb@Philippians:3:1 @Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

nasb@Philippians:3:2 @Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;

nasb@Philippians:3:3 @for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

nasb@Philippians:3:4 @although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more-

nasb@Philippians:3:5 @circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

nasb@Philippians:3:6 @as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

nasb@Philippians:3:7 @But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

nasb@Philippians:3:8 @More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,

nasb@Philippians:3:9 @and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

nasb@Philippians:3:10 @that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

nasb@Philippians:3:11 @in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

nasb@Philippians:3:12 @Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:3:13 @Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do- forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

nasb@Philippians:3:14 @I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:3:15 @Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

nasb@Philippians:3:16 @however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

nasb@Philippians:3:17 @Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.

nasb@Philippians:3:18 @For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

nasb@Philippians:3:19 @whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

nasb@Philippians:3:20 @For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

nasb@Philippians:3:21 @who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

nasb@Philippians:4:1 @Therefore, my beloved brethren whom I long to see, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

nasb@Philippians:4:2 @I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to live in harmony in the Lord.

nasb@Philippians:4:3 @Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

nasb@Philippians:4:4 @Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

nasb@Philippians:4:5 @Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

nasb@Philippians:4:6 @Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

nasb@Philippians:4:7 @And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:4:8 @Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

nasb@Philippians:4:9 @The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

nasb@Philippians:4:10 @But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked opportunity.

nasb@Philippians:4:11 @Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

nasb@Philippians:4:12 @I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

nasb@Philippians:4:13 @I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

nasb@Philippians:4:14 @Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me in my affliction.

nasb@Philippians:4:15 @You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone;

nasb@Philippians:4:16 @for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

nasb@Philippians:4:17 @Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.

nasb@Philippians:4:18 @But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

nasb@Philippians:4:19 @And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

nasb@Philippians:4:20 @Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@Philippians:4:21 @Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

nasb@Philippians:4:22 @All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.

nasb@Philippians:4:23 @The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

nasb@Colossians:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

nasb@Colossians:1:2 @To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae- Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

nasb@Colossians:1:3 @We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

nasb@Colossians:1:4 @since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints;

nasb@Colossians:1:5 @because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

nasb@Colossians:1:6 @which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;

nasb@Colossians:1:7 @just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

nasb@Colossians:1:8 @and he also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

nasb@Colossians:1:9 @For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

nasb@Colossians:1:10 @so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

nasb@Colossians:1:11 @strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

nasb@Colossians:1:12 @giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

nasb@Colossians:1:13 @For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

nasb@Colossians:1:14 @in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

nasb@Colossians:1:15 @He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

nasb@Colossians:1:16 @For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created through Him and for Him.

nasb@Colossians:1:17 @He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

nasb@Colossians:1:18 @He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

nasb@Colossians:1:19 @For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,

nasb@Colossians:1:20 @and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

nasb@Colossians:1:21 @And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

nasb@Colossians:1:22 @yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--

nasb@Colossians:1:23 @if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

nasb@Colossians:1:24 @Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.

nasb@Colossians:1:25 @Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

nasb@Colossians:1:26 @that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,

nasb@Colossians:1:27 @to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

nasb@Colossians:1:28 @We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.

nasb@Colossians:1:29 @For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.

nasb@Colossians:2:1 @For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

nasb@Colossians:2:2 @that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

nasb@Colossians:2:3 @in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

nasb@Colossians:2:4 @I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

nasb@Colossians:2:5 @For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ.

nasb@Colossians:2:6 @Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

nasb@Colossians:2:7 @having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

nasb@Colossians:2:8 @See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

nasb@Colossians:2:9 @For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

nasb@Colossians:2:10 @and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

nasb@Colossians:2:11 @and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

nasb@Colossians:2:12 @having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

nasb@Colossians:2:13 @When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

nasb@Colossians:2:14 @having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

nasb@Colossians:2:15 @When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

nasb@Colossians:2:16 @Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--

nasb@Colossians:2:17 @things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

nasb@Colossians:2:18 @Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

nasb@Colossians:2:19 @and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

nasb@Colossians:2:20 @If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

nasb@Colossians:2:21" @Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"

nasb@Colossians:2:22 @(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)--in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

nasb@Colossians:2:23 @These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

nasb@Colossians:3:1 @Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

nasb@Colossians:3:2 @Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

nasb@Colossians:3:3 @For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

nasb@Colossians:3:4 @When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

nasb@Colossians:3:5 @Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

nasb@Colossians:3:6 @For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,

nasb@Colossians:3:7 @and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

nasb@Colossians:3:8 @But now you also, put them all aside- anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.

nasb@Colossians:3:9 @Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

nasb@Colossians:3:10 @and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him--

nasb@Colossians:3:11 @a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

nasb@Colossians:3:12 @So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;

nasb@Colossians:3:13 @bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.

nasb@Colossians:3:14 @Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

nasb@Colossians:3:15 @Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.

nasb@Colossians:3:16 @Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

nasb@Colossians:3:17 @Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

nasb@Colossians:3:18 @Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

nasb@Colossians:3:19 @Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.

nasb@Colossians:3:20 @Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

nasb@Colossians:3:21 @Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

nasb@Colossians:3:22 @Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

nasb@Colossians:3:23 @Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,

nasb@Colossians:3:24 @knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

nasb@Colossians:3:25 @For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

nasb@Colossians:4:1 @Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

nasb@Colossians:4:2 @Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;

nasb@Colossians:4:3 @praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned;

nasb@Colossians:4:4 @that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak.

nasb@Colossians:4:5 @Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

nasb@Colossians:4:6 @Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

nasb@Colossians:4:7 @As to all my affairs, Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in the Lord, will bring you information.

nasb@Colossians:4:8 @For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;

nasb@Colossians:4:9 @and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of your number. They will inform you about the whole situation here.

nasb@Colossians:4:10 @Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you his greetings; and also Barnabas's cousin Mark (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him);

nasb@Colossians:4:11 @and also Jesus who is called Justus; these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are from the circumcision, and they have proved to be an encouragement to me.

nasb@Colossians:4:12 @Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

nasb@Colossians:4:13 @For I testify for him that he has a deep concern for you and for those who are in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

nasb@Colossians:4:14 @Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.

nasb@Colossians:4:15 @Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.

nasb@Colossians:4:16 @When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read my letter that is coming from Laodicea.

nasb@Colossians:4:17 @Say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it."

nasb@Colossians:4:18 @I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:1 @Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ- Grace to you and peace.

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:2 @We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers;

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:3 @constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:4 @knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:5 @for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:6 @You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:7 @so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:8 @For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:9 @For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

nasb@1Thessalonians:1:10 @and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:1 @For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:2 @but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:3 @For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:4 @but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:5 @For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed-- God is witness--

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:6 @nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:7 @But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:8 @Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:9 @For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:10 @You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers;

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:11 @just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:12 @so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:13 @For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:14 @For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:15 @who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:16 @hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:17 @But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while-- in person, not in spirit--were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:18 @For we wanted to come to you--I, Paul, more than once--and yet Satan hindered us.

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:19 @For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

nasb@1Thessalonians:2:20 @For you are our glory and joy.

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:1 @Therefore when we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone,

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:2 @and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:3 @so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:4 @For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know.

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:5 @For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:6 @But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you,

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:7 @for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:8 @for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:9 @For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God on your account,

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:10 @as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:11 @Now may our God and Father Himself and Jesus our Lord direct our way to you;

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:12 @and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

nasb@1Thessalonians:3:13 @so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:1 @Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:2 @For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:3 @For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:4 @that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:5 @not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:6 @and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:7 @For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:8 @So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:9 @Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:10 @for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:11 @and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:12 @so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:13 @But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:14 @For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:15 @For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:16 @For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:17 @Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

nasb@1Thessalonians:4:18 @Therefore comfort one another with these words.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:1 @Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:2 @For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:3 @While they are saying, " Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:4 @But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:5 @for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:6 @so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:7 @For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:8 @But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:9 @For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:10 @who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:11 @Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:12 @But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction,

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:13 @and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:14 @We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:15 @See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:16 @Rejoice always;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:17 @pray without ceasing;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:18 @in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:19 @Do not quench the Spirit;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:20 @do not despise prophetic utterances.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:21 @But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:22 @abstain from every form of evil.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:23 @Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:24 @Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:25 @Brethren, pray for us.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:26 @Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:27 @I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the brethren.

nasb@1Thessalonians:5:28 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:1 @Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ-

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:2 @Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:3 @We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:4 @therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:5 @This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:6 @For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:7 @and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:8 @dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:9 @These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:10 @when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed--for our testimony to you was believed.

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:11 @To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,

nasb@2Thessalonians:1:12 @so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:1 @Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:2 @that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:3 @Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:4 @who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:5 @Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:6 @And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:7 @For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:8 @Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:9 @that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:10 @and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:11 @For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:12 @in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:13 @But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:14 @It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:15 @So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:16 @Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,

nasb@2Thessalonians:2:17 @comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:1 @Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you;

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:2 @and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have faith.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:3 @But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:4 @We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:5 @May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:6 @Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:7 @For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:8 @nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:9 @not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:10 @For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order- if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:11 @For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:12 @Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:13 @But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:14 @If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be put to shame.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:15 @Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:16 @Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:17 @I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, and this is a distinguishing mark in every letter; this is the way I write.

nasb@2Thessalonians:3:18 @The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

nasb@1Timothy:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope,

nasb@1Timothy:1:2 @To Timothy, my true child in the faith- Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

nasb@1Timothy:1:3 @As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines,

nasb@1Timothy:1:4 @nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith.

nasb@1Timothy:1:5 @But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

nasb@1Timothy:1:6 @For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,

nasb@1Timothy:1:7 @wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

nasb@1Timothy:1:8 @But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

nasb@1Timothy:1:9 @realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers

nasb@1Timothy:1:10 @and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

nasb@1Timothy:1:11 @according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

nasb@1Timothy:1:12 @I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service,

nasb@1Timothy:1:13 @even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

nasb@1Timothy:1:14 @and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.

nasb@1Timothy:1:15 @It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.

nasb@1Timothy:1:16 @Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

nasb@1Timothy:1:17 @Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@1Timothy:1:18 @This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight,

nasb@1Timothy:1:19 @keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.

nasb@1Timothy:1:20 @Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

nasb@1Timothy:2:1 @First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

nasb@1Timothy:2:2 @for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

nasb@1Timothy:2:3 @This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

nasb@1Timothy:2:4 @who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

nasb@1Timothy:2:5 @For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

nasb@1Timothy:2:6 @who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

nasb@1Timothy:2:7 @For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle ( I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

nasb@1Timothy:2:8 @Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

nasb@1Timothy:2:9 @Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,

nasb@1Timothy:2:10 @but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

nasb@1Timothy:2:11 @A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.

nasb@1Timothy:2:12 @But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

nasb@1Timothy:2:13 @For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.

nasb@1Timothy:2:14 @And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

nasb@1Timothy:2:15 @But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

nasb@1Timothy:3:1 @It is a trustworthy statement- if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.

nasb@1Timothy:3:2 @An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

nasb@1Timothy:3:3 @not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.

nasb@1Timothy:3:4 @He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity

nasb@1Timothy:3:5 @(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

nasb@1Timothy:3:6 @and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.

nasb@1Timothy:3:7 @And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

nasb@1Timothy:3:8 @Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,

nasb@1Timothy:3:9 @but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

nasb@1Timothy:3:10 @These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.

nasb@1Timothy:3:11 @Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

nasb@1Timothy:3:12 @Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.

nasb@1Timothy:3:13 @For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

nasb@1Timothy:3:14 @I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long;

nasb@1Timothy:3:15 @but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

nasb@1Timothy:3:16 @By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness- He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.

nasb@1Timothy:4:1 @But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

nasb@1Timothy:4:2 @by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

nasb@1Timothy:4:3 @men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

nasb@1Timothy:4:4 @For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

nasb@1Timothy:4:5 @for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

nasb@1Timothy:4:6 @In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

nasb@1Timothy:4:7 @But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

nasb@1Timothy:4:8 @for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

nasb@1Timothy:4:9 @It is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance.

nasb@1Timothy:4:10 @For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

nasb@1Timothy:4:11 @Prescribe and teach these things.

nasb@1Timothy:4:12 @Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

nasb@1Timothy:4:13 @Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.

nasb@1Timothy:4:14 @Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.

nasb@1Timothy:4:15 @Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

nasb@1Timothy:4:16 @Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

nasb@1Timothy:5:1 @Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers,

nasb@1Timothy:5:2 @the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

nasb@1Timothy:5:3 @Honor widows who are widows indeed;

nasb@1Timothy:5:4 @but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in regard to their own family and to make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

nasb@1Timothy:5:5 @Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

nasb@1Timothy:5:6 @But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

nasb@1Timothy:5:7 @Prescribe these things as well, so that they may be above reproach.

nasb@1Timothy:5:8 @But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

nasb@1Timothy:5:9 @A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

nasb@1Timothy:5:10 @having a reputation for good works; and if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has assisted those in distress, and if she has devoted herself to every good work.

nasb@1Timothy:5:11 @But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when they feel sensual desires in disregard of Christ, they want to get married,

nasb@1Timothy:5:12 @thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

nasb@1Timothy:5:13 @At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.

nasb@1Timothy:5:14 @Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

nasb@1Timothy:5:15 @for some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

nasb@1Timothy:5:16 @If any woman who is a believer has dependent widows, she must assist them and the church must not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are widows indeed.

nasb@1Timothy:5:17 @The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

nasb@1Timothy:5:18 @For the Scripture says, " YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and " The laborer is worthy of his wages."

nasb@1Timothy:5:19 @Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

nasb@1Timothy:5:20 @Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

nasb@1Timothy:5:21 @I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

nasb@1Timothy:5:22 @Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

nasb@1Timothy:5:23 @No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

nasb@1Timothy:5:24 @The sins of some men are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others, their sins follow after.

nasb@1Timothy:5:25 @Likewise also, deeds that are good are quite evident, and those which are otherwise cannot be concealed.

nasb@1Timothy:6:1 @All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against.

nasb@1Timothy:6:2 @Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles.

nasb@1Timothy:6:3 @If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,

nasb@1Timothy:6:4 @he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

nasb@1Timothy:6:5 @and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

nasb@1Timothy:6:6 @But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.

nasb@1Timothy:6:7 @For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

nasb@1Timothy:6:8 @If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.

nasb@1Timothy:6:9 @But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

nasb@1Timothy:6:10 @For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

nasb@1Timothy:6:11 @But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness.

nasb@1Timothy:6:12 @Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

nasb@1Timothy:6:13 @I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

nasb@1Timothy:6:14 @that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@1Timothy:6:15 @which He will bring about at the proper time--He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

nasb@1Timothy:6:16 @who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

nasb@1Timothy:6:17 @Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

nasb@1Timothy:6:18 @Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

nasb@1Timothy:6:19 @storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

nasb@1Timothy:6:20 @O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge"--

nasb@1Timothy:6:21 @which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you.

nasb@2Timothy:1:1 @Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

nasb@2Timothy:1:2 @To Timothy, my beloved son- Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

nasb@2Timothy:1:3 @I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day,

nasb@2Timothy:1:4 @longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

nasb@2Timothy:1:5 @For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

nasb@2Timothy:1:6 @For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

nasb@2Timothy:1:7 @For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

nasb@2Timothy:1:8 @Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God,

nasb@2Timothy:1:9 @who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

nasb@2Timothy:1:10 @but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

nasb@2Timothy:1:11 @for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

nasb@2Timothy:1:12 @For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

nasb@2Timothy:1:13 @Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

nasb@2Timothy:1:14 @Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

nasb@2Timothy:1:15 @You are aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

nasb@2Timothy:1:16 @The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;

nasb@2Timothy:1:17 @but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me--

nasb@2Timothy:1:18 @the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day--and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.

nasb@2Timothy:2:1 @You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

nasb@2Timothy:2:2 @The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

nasb@2Timothy:2:3 @Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

nasb@2Timothy:2:4 @No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

nasb@2Timothy:2:5 @Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules.

nasb@2Timothy:2:6 @The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

nasb@2Timothy:2:7 @Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

nasb@2Timothy:2:8 @Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel,

nasb@2Timothy:2:9 @for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.

nasb@2Timothy:2:10 @For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

nasb@2Timothy:2:11 @It is a trustworthy statement- For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;

nasb@2Timothy:2:12 @If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;

nasb@2Timothy:2:13 @If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

nasb@2Timothy:2:14 @Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

nasb@2Timothy:2:15 @Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

nasb@2Timothy:2:16 @But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,

nasb@2Timothy:2:17 @and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

nasb@2Timothy:2:18 @men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

nasb@2Timothy:2:19 @Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, " The Lord knows those who are His," and, " Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness."

nasb@2Timothy:2:20 @Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor.

nasb@2Timothy:2:21 @Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

nasb@2Timothy:2:22 @Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

nasb@2Timothy:2:23 @But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

nasb@2Timothy:2:24 @The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,

nasb@2Timothy:2:25 @with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

nasb@2Timothy:2:26 @and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

nasb@2Timothy:3:1 @But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

nasb@2Timothy:3:2 @For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

nasb@2Timothy:3:3 @unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

nasb@2Timothy:3:4 @treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

nasb@2Timothy:3:5 @holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

nasb@2Timothy:3:6 @For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

nasb@2Timothy:3:7 @always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

nasb@2Timothy:3:8 @Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

nasb@2Timothy:3:9 @But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.

nasb@2Timothy:3:10 @Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

nasb@2Timothy:3:11 @persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

nasb@2Timothy:3:12 @Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

nasb@2Timothy:3:13 @But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

nasb@2Timothy:3:14 @You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

nasb@2Timothy:3:15 @and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

nasb@2Timothy:3:16 @All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

nasb@2Timothy:3:17 @so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

nasb@2Timothy:4:1 @I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom-

nasb@2Timothy:4:2 @preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

nasb@2Timothy:4:3 @For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

nasb@2Timothy:4:4 @and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

nasb@2Timothy:4:5 @But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

nasb@2Timothy:4:6 @For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

nasb@2Timothy:4:7 @I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

nasb@2Timothy:4:8 @in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

nasb@2Timothy:4:9 @Make every effort to come to me soon;

nasb@2Timothy:4:10 @for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

nasb@2Timothy:4:11 @Only Luke is with me. Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

nasb@2Timothy:4:12 @But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

nasb@2Timothy:4:13 @When you come bring the cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

nasb@2Timothy:4:14 @Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

nasb@2Timothy:4:15 @Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching.

nasb@2Timothy:4:16 @At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

nasb@2Timothy:4:17 @But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion's mouth.

nasb@2Timothy:4:18 @The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@2Timothy:4:19 @Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

nasb@2Timothy:4:20 @Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

nasb@2Timothy:4:21 @Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

nasb@2Timothy:4:22 @The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

nasb@Titus:1:1 @Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

nasb@Titus:1:2 @in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

nasb@Titus:1:3 @but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

nasb@Titus:1:4 @To Titus, my true child in a common faith- Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

nasb@Titus:1:5 @For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,

nasb@Titus:1:6 @namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

nasb@Titus:1:7 @For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

nasb@Titus:1:8 @but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled,

nasb@Titus:1:9 @holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.

nasb@Titus:1:10 @For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

nasb@Titus:1:11 @who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain.

nasb@Titus:1:12 @One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, " Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

nasb@Titus:1:13 @This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,

nasb@Titus:1:14 @not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

nasb@Titus:1:15 @To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

nasb@Titus:1:16 @They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

nasb@Titus:2:1 @But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

nasb@Titus:2:2 @Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

nasb@Titus:2:3 @Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

nasb@Titus:2:4 @so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

nasb@Titus:2:5 @to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.

nasb@Titus:2:6 @Likewise urge the young men to be sensible;

nasb@Titus:2:7 @in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified,

nasb@Titus:2:8 @sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

nasb@Titus:2:9 @Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

nasb@Titus:2:10 @not pilfering, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.

nasb@Titus:2:11 @For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

nasb@Titus:2:12 @instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,

nasb@Titus:2:13 @looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

nasb@Titus:2:14 @who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

nasb@Titus:2:15 @These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

nasb@Titus:3:1 @Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

nasb@Titus:3:2 @to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

nasb@Titus:3:3 @For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

nasb@Titus:3:4 @But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

nasb@Titus:3:5 @He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

nasb@Titus:3:6 @whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

nasb@Titus:3:7 @so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

nasb@Titus:3:8 @This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men.

nasb@Titus:3:9 @But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

nasb@Titus:3:10 @Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,

nasb@Titus:3:11 @knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

nasb@Titus:3:12 @When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

nasb@Titus:3:13 @Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way so that nothing is lacking for them.

nasb@Titus:3:14 @Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.

nasb@Titus:3:15 @All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

nasb@Philemon:1:1 @Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker,

nasb@Philemon:1:2 @and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house-

nasb@Philemon:1:3 @Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@Philemon:1:4 @I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

nasb@Philemon:1:5 @because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;

nasb@Philemon:1:6 @and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake.

nasb@Philemon:1:7 @For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

nasb@Philemon:1:8 @Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,

nasb@Philemon:1:9 @yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you--since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus--

nasb@Philemon:1:10 @I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,

nasb@Philemon:1:11 @who formerly was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.

nasb@Philemon:1:12 @I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,

nasb@Philemon:1:13 @whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;

nasb@Philemon:1:14 @but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

nasb@Philemon:1:15 @For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,

nasb@Philemon:1:16 @no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

nasb@Philemon:1:17 @If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me.

nasb@Philemon:1:18 @But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account;

nasb@Philemon:1:19 @I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it ( not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).

nasb@Philemon:1:20 @Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

nasb@Philemon:1:21 @Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.

nasb@Philemon:1:22 @At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

nasb@Philemon:1:23 @Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

nasb@Philemon:1:24 @as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers.

nasb@Philemon:1:25 @The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

nasb@Hebrews:1:1 @God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

nasb@Hebrews:1:2 @in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.

nasb@Hebrews:1:3 @And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

nasb@Hebrews:1:4 @having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

nasb@Hebrews:1:5 @For to which of the angels did He ever say, " YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU"? And again, " I WILL BE A FATHER TO HIM AND HE SHALL BE A SON TO ME"?

nasb@Hebrews:1:6 @And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, " AND LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM."

nasb@Hebrews:1:7 @And of the angels He says, " WHO MAKES HIS ANGELS WINDS, AND HIS MINISTERS A FLAME OF FIRE."

nasb@Hebrews:1:8 @But of the Son He says, " YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM.

nasb@Hebrews:1:9" @ YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HATED LAWLESSNESS; THEREFORE GOD, YOUR GOD, HAS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE YOUR COMPANIONS."

nasb@Hebrews:1:10 @And, " YOU, LORD, IN THE BEGINNING LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH, AND THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

nasb@Hebrews:1:11 @THEY WILL PERISH, BUT YOU REMAIN; AND THEY ALL WILL BECOME OLD LIKE A GARMENT,

nasb@Hebrews:1:12 @AND LIKE A MANTLE YOU WILL ROLL THEM UP; LIKE A GARMENT THEY WILL ALSO BE CHANGED. BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT COME TO AN END."

nasb@Hebrews:1:13 @But to which of the angels has He ever said, " SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET"?

nasb@Hebrews:1:14 @Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvationNULL

nasb@Hebrews:2:1 @For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

nasb@Hebrews:2:2 @For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

nasb@Hebrews:2:3 @how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

nasb@Hebrews:2:4 @God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

nasb@Hebrews:2:5 @For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.

nasb@Hebrews:2:6 @But one has testified somewhere, saying, " WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM?

nasb@Hebrews:2:7" @ YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

nasb@Hebrews:2:8 @YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET." For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

nasb@Hebrews:2:9 @But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

nasb@Hebrews:2:10 @For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

nasb@Hebrews:2:11 @For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

nasb@Hebrews:2:12 @saying, " I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION I WILL SING YOUR PRAISE."

nasb@Hebrews:2:13 @And again, " I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM." And again, " BEHOLD, I AND THE CHILDREN WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME."

nasb@Hebrews:2:14 @Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

nasb@Hebrews:2:15 @and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

nasb@Hebrews:2:16 @For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.

nasb@Hebrews:2:17 @Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

nasb@Hebrews:2:18 @For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

nasb@Hebrews:3:1 @Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

nasb@Hebrews:3:2 @He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.

nasb@Hebrews:3:3 @For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

nasb@Hebrews:3:4 @For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

nasb@Hebrews:3:5 @Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

nasb@Hebrews:3:6 @but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house-- whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

nasb@Hebrews:3:7 @Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, " TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

nasb@Hebrews:3:8 @DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

nasb@Hebrews:3:9 @WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.

nasb@Hebrews:3:10" @ THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS';

nasb@Hebrews:3:11 @AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'"

nasb@Hebrews:3:12 @Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

nasb@Hebrews:3:13 @But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

nasb@Hebrews:3:14 @For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

nasb@Hebrews:3:15 @while it is said, " TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME."

nasb@Hebrews:3:16 @For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

nasb@Hebrews:3:17 @And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

nasb@Hebrews:3:18 @And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

nasb@Hebrews:3:19 @So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

nasb@Hebrews:4:1 @Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

nasb@Hebrews:4:2 @For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.

nasb@Hebrews:4:3 @For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, " AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST," although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

nasb@Hebrews:4:4 @For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day- " AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS";

nasb@Hebrews:4:5 @and again in this passage, " THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST."

nasb@Hebrews:4:6 @Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,

nasb@Hebrews:4:7 @He again fixes a certain day, "Today," saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, " TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS."

nasb@Hebrews:4:8 @For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.

nasb@Hebrews:4:9 @So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

nasb@Hebrews:4:10 @For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

nasb@Hebrews:4:11 @Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

nasb@Hebrews:4:12 @For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

nasb@Hebrews:4:13 @And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

nasb@Hebrews:4:14 @Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

nasb@Hebrews:4:15 @For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

nasb@Hebrews:4:16 @Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

nasb@Hebrews:5:1 @For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

nasb@Hebrews:5:2 @he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

nasb@Hebrews:5:3 @and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself.

nasb@Hebrews:5:4 @And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.

nasb@Hebrews:5:5 @So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, " YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU";

nasb@Hebrews:5:6 @just as He says also in another passage, " YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK."

nasb@Hebrews:5:7 @In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

nasb@Hebrews:5:8 @Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.

nasb@Hebrews:5:9 @And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,

nasb@Hebrews:5:10 @being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

nasb@Hebrews:5:11 @Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

nasb@Hebrews:5:12 @For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

nasb@Hebrews:5:13 @For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

nasb@Hebrews:5:14 @But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

nasb@Hebrews:6:1 @Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

nasb@Hebrews:6:2 @of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

nasb@Hebrews:6:3 @And this we will do, if God permits.

nasb@Hebrews:6:4 @For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

nasb@Hebrews:6:5 @and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

nasb@Hebrews:6:6 @and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

nasb@Hebrews:6:7 @For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;

nasb@Hebrews:6:8 @but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

nasb@Hebrews:6:9 @But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

nasb@Hebrews:6:10 @For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

nasb@Hebrews:6:11 @And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,

nasb@Hebrews:6:12 @so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

nasb@Hebrews:6:13 @For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

nasb@Hebrews:6:14 @saying, " I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

nasb@Hebrews:6:15 @And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

nasb@Hebrews:6:16 @For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

nasb@Hebrews:6:17 @In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

nasb@Hebrews:6:18 @so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

nasb@Hebrews:6:19 @This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,

nasb@Hebrews:6:20 @where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

nasb@Hebrews:7:1 @For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

nasb@Hebrews:7:2 @to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.

nasb@Hebrews:7:3 @Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

nasb@Hebrews:7:4 @Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.

nasb@Hebrews:7:5 @And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham.

nasb@Hebrews:7:6 @But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

nasb@Hebrews:7:7 @But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

nasb@Hebrews:7:8 @In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.

nasb@Hebrews:7:9 @And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes,

nasb@Hebrews:7:10 @for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

nasb@Hebrews:7:11 @Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron?

nasb@Hebrews:7:12 @For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

nasb@Hebrews:7:13 @For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

nasb@Hebrews:7:14 @For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

nasb@Hebrews:7:15 @And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

nasb@Hebrews:7:16 @who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

nasb@Hebrews:7:17 @For it is attested of Him, " YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK."

nasb@Hebrews:7:18 @For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

nasb@Hebrews:7:19 @(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

nasb@Hebrews:7:20 @And inasmuch as it was not without an oath

nasb@Hebrews:7:21 @(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, " THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND, 'YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER'");

nasb@Hebrews:7:22 @so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

nasb@Hebrews:7:23 @The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,

nasb@Hebrews:7:24 @but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.

nasb@Hebrews:7:25 @Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

nasb@Hebrews:7:26 @For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens;

nasb@Hebrews:7:27 @who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

nasb@Hebrews:7:28 @For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.

nasb@Hebrews:8:1 @Now the main point in what has been said is this- we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

nasb@Hebrews:8:2 @a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

nasb@Hebrews:8:3 @For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

nasb@Hebrews:8:4 @Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

nasb@Hebrews:8:5 @who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, " SEE," He says, "THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN."

nasb@Hebrews:8:6 @But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

nasb@Hebrews:8:7 @For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

nasb@Hebrews:8:8 @For finding fault with them, He says, " BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;

nasb@Hebrews:8:9 @NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD.

nasb@Hebrews:8:10" @ FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD- I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS. AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.

nasb@Hebrews:8:11" @ AND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN, AND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, 'KNOW THE LORD,' FOR ALL WILL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.

nasb@Hebrews:8:12" @ FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE."

nasb@Hebrews:8:13 @When He said, " A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

nasb@Hebrews:9:1 @Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.

nasb@Hebrews:9:2 @For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.

nasb@Hebrews:9:3 @Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

nasb@Hebrews:9:4 @having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron's rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant;

nasb@Hebrews:9:5 @and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

nasb@Hebrews:9:6 @Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship,

nasb@Hebrews:9:7 @but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

nasb@Hebrews:9:8 @The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing,

nasb@Hebrews:9:9 @which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience,

nasb@Hebrews:9:10 @since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

nasb@Hebrews:9:11 @But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

nasb@Hebrews:9:12 @and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

nasb@Hebrews:9:13 @For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

nasb@Hebrews:9:14 @how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

nasb@Hebrews:9:15 @For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

nasb@Hebrews:9:16 @For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

nasb@Hebrews:9:17 @For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

nasb@Hebrews:9:18 @Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

nasb@Hebrews:9:19 @For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

nasb@Hebrews:9:20 @saying, " THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU."

nasb@Hebrews:9:21 @And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.

nasb@Hebrews:9:22 @And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

nasb@Hebrews:9:23 @Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

nasb@Hebrews:9:24 @For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

nasb@Hebrews:9:25 @nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

nasb@Hebrews:9:26 @Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

nasb@Hebrews:9:27 @And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

nasb@Hebrews:9:28 @so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

nasb@Hebrews:10:1 @For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

nasb@Hebrews:10:2 @Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

nasb@Hebrews:10:3 @But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

nasb@Hebrews:10:4 @For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

nasb@Hebrews:10:5 @Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, " SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;

nasb@Hebrews:10:6 @IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.

nasb@Hebrews:10:8 @After saying above, " SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

nasb@Hebrews:10:9 @then He said, " BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

nasb@Hebrews:10:10 @By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

nasb@Hebrews:10:11 @Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

nasb@Hebrews:10:12 @but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,

nasb@Hebrews:10:13 @waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.

nasb@Hebrews:10:14 @For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

nasb@Hebrews:10:15 @And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

nasb@Hebrews:10:16" @ THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD- I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM," He then says,

nasb@Hebrews:10:17" @ AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE."

nasb@Hebrews:10:18 @Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

nasb@Hebrews:10:19 @Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

nasb@Hebrews:10:20 @by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

nasb@Hebrews:10:21 @and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

nasb@Hebrews:10:22 @let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

nasb@Hebrews:10:23 @Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

nasb@Hebrews:10:24 @and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

nasb@Hebrews:10:25 @not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

nasb@Hebrews:10:26 @For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

nasb@Hebrews:10:27 @but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

nasb@Hebrews:10:28 @Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

nasb@Hebrews:10:29 @How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

nasb@Hebrews:10:30 @For we know Him who said, " VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, " THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE."

nasb@Hebrews:10:31 @It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

nasb@Hebrews:10:32 @But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

nasb@Hebrews:10:33 @partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.

nasb@Hebrews:10:34 @For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

nasb@Hebrews:10:35 @Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

nasb@Hebrews:10:36 @For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

nasb@Hebrews:10:37 @FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.

nasb@Hebrews:10:38 @BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.

nasb@Hebrews:10:39 @But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

nasb@Hebrews:11:1 @Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

nasb@Hebrews:11:2 @For by it the men of old gained approval.

nasb@Hebrews:11:3 @By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

nasb@Hebrews:11:4 @By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

nasb@Hebrews:11:5 @By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

nasb@Hebrews:11:6 @And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

nasb@Hebrews:11:7 @By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

nasb@Hebrews:11:8 @By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

nasb@Hebrews:11:9 @By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

nasb@Hebrews:11:10 @for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

nasb@Hebrews:11:11 @By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.

nasb@Hebrews:11:12 @Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN IN NUMBER, AND INNUMERABLE AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEASHORE.

nasb@Hebrews:11:13 @All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

nasb@Hebrews:11:14 @For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

nasb@Hebrews:11:15 @And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

nasb@Hebrews:11:16 @But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

nasb@Hebrews:11:17 @By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son;

nasb@Hebrews:11:18 @it was he to whom it was said, " IN ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED."

nasb@Hebrews:11:19 @He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.

nasb@Hebrews:11:20 @By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

nasb@Hebrews:11:21 @By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

nasb@Hebrews:11:22 @By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.

nasb@Hebrews:11:23 @By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

nasb@Hebrews:11:24 @By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

nasb@Hebrews:11:25 @choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

nasb@Hebrews:11:26 @considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.

nasb@Hebrews:11:27 @By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.

nasb@Hebrews:11:28 @By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

nasb@Hebrews:11:29 @By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned.

nasb@Hebrews:11:30 @By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

nasb@Hebrews:11:31 @By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace.

nasb@Hebrews:11:32 @And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

nasb@Hebrews:11:33 @who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

nasb@Hebrews:11:34 @quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

nasb@Hebrews:11:35 @Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

nasb@Hebrews:11:36 @and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

nasb@Hebrews:11:37 @They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

nasb@Hebrews:11:38 @(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

nasb@Hebrews:11:39 @And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

nasb@Hebrews:11:40 @because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

nasb@Hebrews:12:1 @Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

nasb@Hebrews:12:2 @fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

nasb@Hebrews:12:3 @For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

nasb@Hebrews:12:4 @You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

nasb@Hebrews:12:5 @and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, " MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

nasb@Hebrews:12:6 @FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

nasb@Hebrews:12:7 @It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

nasb@Hebrews:12:8 @But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

nasb@Hebrews:12:9 @Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

nasb@Hebrews:12:10 @For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

nasb@Hebrews:12:11 @All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

nasb@Hebrews:12:12 @Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

nasb@Hebrews:12:13 @and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

nasb@Hebrews:12:14 @Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

nasb@Hebrews:12:15 @See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

nasb@Hebrews:12:16 @that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

nasb@Hebrews:12:17 @For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

nasb@Hebrews:12:18 @For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

nasb@Hebrews:12:19 @and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.

nasb@Hebrews:12:20 @For they could not bear the command, " IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED."

nasb@Hebrews:12:21 @And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, " I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling."

nasb@Hebrews:12:22 @But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

nasb@Hebrews:12:23 @to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

nasb@Hebrews:12:24 @and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

nasb@Hebrews:12:25 @See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

nasb@Hebrews:12:26 @And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, " YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN."

nasb@Hebrews:12:27 @This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

nasb@Hebrews:12:28 @Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;

nasb@Hebrews:12:29 @for our God is a consuming fire.

nasb@Hebrews:13:1 @Let love of the brethren continue.

nasb@Hebrews:13:2 @Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

nasb@Hebrews:13:3 @Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.

nasb@Hebrews:13:4 @Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

nasb@Hebrews:13:5 @Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, " I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,"

nasb@Hebrews:13:6 @so that we confidently say, " THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?"

nasb@Hebrews:13:7 @Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

nasb@Hebrews:13:8 @Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

nasb@Hebrews:13:9 @Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

nasb@Hebrews:13:10 @We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

nasb@Hebrews:13:11 @For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

nasb@Hebrews:13:12 @Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

nasb@Hebrews:13:13 @So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

nasb@Hebrews:13:14 @For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

nasb@Hebrews:13:15 @Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.

nasb@Hebrews:13:16 @And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

nasb@Hebrews:13:17 @Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

nasb@Hebrews:13:18 @Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.

nasb@Hebrews:13:19 @And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

nasb@Hebrews:13:20 @Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,

nasb@Hebrews:13:21 @equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@Hebrews:13:22 @But I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

nasb@Hebrews:13:23 @Take notice that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.

nasb@Hebrews:13:24 @Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

nasb@Hebrews:13:25 @Grace be with you all.

nasb@James:1:1 @James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad- Greetings.

nasb@James:1:2 @Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

nasb@James:1:3 @knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

nasb@James:1:4 @And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

nasb@James:1:5 @But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

nasb@James:1:6 @But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

nasb@James:1:7 @For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

nasb@James:1:8 @being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

nasb@James:1:9 @But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

nasb@James:1:10 @and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

nasb@James:1:11 @For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.

nasb@James:1:12 @Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

nasb@James:1:13 @Let no one say when he is tempted, " I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.

nasb@James:1:14 @But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

nasb@James:1:15 @Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

nasb@James:1:16 @Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

nasb@James:1:17 @Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

nasb@James:1:18 @In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

nasb@James:1:19 @This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

nasb@James:1:20 @for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

nasb@James:1:21 @Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

nasb@James:1:22 @But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

nasb@James:1:23 @For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

nasb@James:1:24 @for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.

nasb@James:1:25 @But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

nasb@James:1:26 @If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.

nasb@James:1:27 @Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this- to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

nasb@James:2:1 @My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

nasb@James:2:2 @For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,

nasb@James:2:3 @and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,"

nasb@James:2:4 @have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?

nasb@James:2:5 @Listen, my beloved brethren- did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

nasb@James:2:6 @But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?

nasb@James:2:7 @Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?

nasb@James:2:8 @If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well.

nasb@James:2:9 @But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

nasb@James:2:10 @For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

nasb@James:2:11 @For He who said, " DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, " DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

nasb@James:2:12 @So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

nasb@James:2:13 @For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

nasb@James:2:14 @What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

nasb@James:2:15 @If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

nasb@James:2:16 @and one of you says to them, " Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

nasb@James:2:17 @Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

nasb@James:2:18 @But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."

nasb@James:2:19 @You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

nasb@James:2:20 @But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

nasb@James:2:21 @Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

nasb@James:2:22 @You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

nasb@James:2:23 @and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, " AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God.

nasb@James:2:24 @You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

nasb@James:2:25 @In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

nasb@James:2:26 @For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

nasb@James:3:1 @Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.

nasb@James:3:2 @For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

nasb@James:3:3 @Now if we put the bits into the horses' mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.

nasb@James:3:4 @Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires.

nasb@James:3:5 @So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

nasb@James:3:6 @And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.

nasb@James:3:7 @For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.

nasb@James:3:8 @But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.

nasb@James:3:9 @With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;

nasb@James:3:10 @from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

nasb@James:3:11 @Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?

nasb@James:3:12 @Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

nasb@James:3:13 @Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.

nasb@James:3:14 @But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

nasb@James:3:15 @This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

nasb@James:3:16 @For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

nasb@James:3:17 @But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

nasb@James:3:18 @And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

nasb@James:4:1 @What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

nasb@James:4:2 @You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

nasb@James:4:3 @You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

nasb@James:4:4 @You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

nasb@James:4:5 @Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose- " He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?

nasb@James:4:6 @But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, " GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

nasb@James:4:7 @Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

nasb@James:4:8 @Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

nasb@James:4:9 @Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

nasb@James:4:10 @Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

nasb@James:4:11 @Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

nasb@James:4:12 @There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?

nasb@James:4:13 @Come now, you who say, " Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."

nasb@James:4:14 @Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

nasb@James:4:15 @Instead, you ought to say, " If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."

nasb@James:4:16 @But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

nasb@James:4:17 @Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

nasb@James:5:1 @Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

nasb@James:5:2 @Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

nasb@James:5:3 @Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

nasb@James:5:4 @Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

nasb@James:5:5 @You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

nasb@James:5:6 @You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

nasb@James:5:7 @Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.

nasb@James:5:8 @You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

nasb@James:5:9 @Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

nasb@James:5:10 @As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

nasb@James:5:11 @We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

nasb@James:5:12 @But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.

nasb@James:5:13 @Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.

nasb@James:5:14 @Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

nasb@James:5:15 @and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

nasb@James:5:16 @Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

nasb@James:5:17 @Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

nasb@James:5:18 @Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

nasb@James:5:19 @My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,

nasb@James:5:20 @let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

nasb@1Peter:1:1 @Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

nasb@1Peter:1:2 @according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood- May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

nasb@1Peter:1:3 @Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

nasb@1Peter:1:4 @to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

nasb@1Peter:1:5 @who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

nasb@1Peter:1:6 @In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

nasb@1Peter:1:7 @so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

nasb@1Peter:1:8 @and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

nasb@1Peter:1:9 @obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

nasb@1Peter:1:10 @As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries,

nasb@1Peter:1:11 @seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

nasb@1Peter:1:12 @It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things into which angels long to look.

nasb@1Peter:1:13 @Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Peter:1:14 @As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

nasb@1Peter:1:15 @but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;

nasb@1Peter:1:16 @because it is written, " YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."

nasb@1Peter:1:17 @If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

nasb@1Peter:1:18 @knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

nasb@1Peter:1:19 @but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

nasb@1Peter:1:20 @For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

nasb@1Peter:1:21 @who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

nasb@1Peter:1:22 @Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,

nasb@1Peter:1:23 @for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

nasb@1Peter:1:24 @For, " ALL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS, AND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF,

nasb@1Peter:1:25 @BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER." And this is the word which was preached to you.

nasb@1Peter:2:1 @Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

nasb@1Peter:2:2 @like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

nasb@1Peter:2:3 @if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

nasb@1Peter:2:4 @And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,

nasb@1Peter:2:5 @you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

nasb@1Peter:2:6 @For this is contained in Scripture- " BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

nasb@1Peter:2:7 @This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, " THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,"

nasb@1Peter:2:8 @and, " A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

nasb@1Peter:2:9 @But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

nasb@1Peter:2:10 @for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.

nasb@1Peter:2:11 @Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

nasb@1Peter:2:12 @Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

nasb@1Peter:2:13 @Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,

nasb@1Peter:2:14 @or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.

nasb@1Peter:2:15 @For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.

nasb@1Peter:2:16 @Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

nasb@1Peter:2:17 @Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

nasb@1Peter:2:18 @Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable.

nasb@1Peter:2:19 @For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

nasb@1Peter:2:20 @For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

nasb@1Peter:2:21 @For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

nasb@1Peter:2:22 @WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;

nasb@1Peter:2:23 @and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

nasb@1Peter:2:24 @and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

nasb@1Peter:2:25 @For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

nasb@1Peter:3:1 @In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

nasb@1Peter:3:2 @as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.

nasb@1Peter:3:3 @Your adornment must not be merely external--braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;

nasb@1Peter:3:4 @but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

nasb@1Peter:3:5 @For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;

nasb@1Peter:3:6 @just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

nasb@1Peter:3:7 @You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

nasb@1Peter:3:8 @To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

nasb@1Peter:3:9 @not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

nasb@1Peter:3:10 @For, " THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

nasb@1Peter:3:11" @ HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.

nasb@1Peter:3:13 @Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?

nasb@1Peter:3:14 @But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,

nasb@1Peter:3:15 @but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

nasb@1Peter:3:16 @and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

nasb@1Peter:3:17 @For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

nasb@1Peter:3:18 @For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

nasb@1Peter:3:19 @in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

nasb@1Peter:3:20 @who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

nasb@1Peter:3:21 @Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you-- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

nasb@1Peter:3:22 @who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

nasb@1Peter:4:1 @Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

nasb@1Peter:4:2 @so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

nasb@1Peter:4:3 @For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

nasb@1Peter:4:4 @In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

nasb@1Peter:4:5 @but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

nasb@1Peter:4:6 @For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

nasb@1Peter:4:7 @The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.

nasb@1Peter:4:8 @Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

nasb@1Peter:4:9 @Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

nasb@1Peter:4:10 @As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

nasb@1Peter:4:11 @Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@1Peter:4:12 @Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;

nasb@1Peter:4:13 @but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

nasb@1Peter:4:14 @If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

nasb@1Peter:4:15 @Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

nasb@1Peter:4:16 @but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name.

nasb@1Peter:4:17 @For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

nasb@1Peter:4:18 @AND IF IT IS WITH DIFFICULTY THAT THE RIGHTEOUS IS SAVED, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE GODLESS MAN AND THE SINNER?

nasb@1Peter:4:19 @Therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.

nasb@1Peter:5:1 @Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed,

nasb@1Peter:5:2 @shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness;

nasb@1Peter:5:3 @nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.

nasb@1Peter:5:4 @And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

nasb@1Peter:5:5 @You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.

nasb@1Peter:5:6 @Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,

nasb@1Peter:5:7 @casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

nasb@1Peter:5:8 @Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

nasb@1Peter:5:9 @But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

nasb@1Peter:5:10 @After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

nasb@1Peter:5:11 @To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@1Peter:5:12 @Through Silvanus, our faithful brother (for so I regard him), I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it!

nasb@1Peter:5:13 @She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son, Mark.

nasb@1Peter:5:14 @Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ.

nasb@2Peter:1:1 @Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ-

nasb@2Peter:1:2 @Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

nasb@2Peter:1:3 @seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

nasb@2Peter:1:4 @For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

nasb@2Peter:1:5 @Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

nasb@2Peter:1:6 @and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,

nasb@2Peter:1:7 @and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

nasb@2Peter:1:8 @For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nasb@2Peter:1:9 @For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

nasb@2Peter:1:10 @Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

nasb@2Peter:1:11 @for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

nasb@2Peter:1:12 @Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.

nasb@2Peter:1:13 @I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder,

nasb@2Peter:1:14 @knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

nasb@2Peter:1:15 @And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.

nasb@2Peter:1:16 @For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

nasb@2Peter:1:17 @For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, "This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased"--

nasb@2Peter:1:18 @and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

nasb@2Peter:1:19 @So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.

nasb@2Peter:1:20 @But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

nasb@2Peter:1:21 @for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

nasb@2Peter:2:1 @But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

nasb@2Peter:2:2 @Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

nasb@2Peter:2:3 @and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

nasb@2Peter:2:4 @For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

nasb@2Peter:2:5 @and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

nasb@2Peter:2:6 @and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

nasb@2Peter:2:7 @and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

nasb@2Peter:2:8 @(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

nasb@2Peter:2:9 @then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

nasb@2Peter:2:10 @and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

nasb@2Peter:2:11 @whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

nasb@2Peter:2:12 @But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

nasb@2Peter:2:13 @suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

nasb@2Peter:2:14 @having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

nasb@2Peter:2:15 @forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

nasb@2Peter:2:16 @but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

nasb@2Peter:2:17 @These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

nasb@2Peter:2:18 @For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

nasb@2Peter:2:19 @promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

nasb@2Peter:2:20 @For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

nasb@2Peter:2:21 @For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

nasb@2Peter:2:22 @It has happened to them according to the true proverb, " A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."

nasb@2Peter:3:1 @This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,

nasb@2Peter:3:2 @that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.

nasb@2Peter:3:3 @Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

nasb@2Peter:3:4 @and saying, " Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation."

nasb@2Peter:3:5 @For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

nasb@2Peter:3:6 @through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

nasb@2Peter:3:7 @But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

nasb@2Peter:3:8 @But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

nasb@2Peter:3:9 @The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

nasb@2Peter:3:10 @But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

nasb@2Peter:3:11 @Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

nasb@2Peter:3:12 @looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!

nasb@2Peter:3:13 @But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

nasb@2Peter:3:14 @Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,

nasb@2Peter:3:15 @and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

nasb@2Peter:3:16 @as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

nasb@2Peter:3:17 @You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,

nasb@2Peter:3:18 @but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

nasb@1John:1:1 @What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life--

nasb@1John:1:2 @and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us--

nasb@1John:1:3 @what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

nasb@1John:1:4 @These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.

nasb@1John:1:5 @This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

nasb@1John:1:6 @If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

nasb@1John:1:7 @but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

nasb@1John:1:8 @If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

nasb@1John:1:9 @If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

nasb@1John:1:10 @If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

nasb@1John:2:1 @My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

nasb@1John:2:2 @and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

nasb@1John:2:3 @By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

nasb@1John:2:4 @The one who says, " I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

nasb@1John:2:5 @but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him-

nasb@1John:2:6 @the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

nasb@1John:2:7 @Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.

nasb@1John:2:8 @On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

nasb@1John:2:9 @The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

nasb@1John:2:10 @The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

nasb@1John:2:11 @But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

nasb@1John:2:12 @I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

nasb@1John:2:13 @I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

nasb@1John:2:14 @I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

nasb@1John:2:15 @Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

nasb@1John:2:16 @For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

nasb@1John:2:17 @The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

nasb@1John:2:18 @Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

nasb@1John:2:19 @They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

nasb@1John:2:20 @But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

nasb@1John:2:21 @I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

nasb@1John:2:22 @Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

nasb@1John:2:23 @Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

nasb@1John:2:24 @As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

nasb@1John:2:25 @This is the promise which He Himself made to us- eternal life.

nasb@1John:2:26 @These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.

nasb@1John:2:27 @As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

nasb@1John:2:28 @Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.

nasb@1John:2:29 @If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

nasb@1John:3:1 @See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

nasb@1John:3:2 @Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

nasb@1John:3:3 @And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

nasb@1John:3:4 @Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

nasb@1John:3:5 @You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

nasb@1John:3:6 @No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

nasb@1John:3:7 @Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

nasb@1John:3:8 @the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

nasb@1John:3:9 @No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

nasb@1John:3:10 @By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious- anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

nasb@1John:3:11 @For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

nasb@1John:3:12 @not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

nasb@1John:3:13 @Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.

nasb@1John:3:14 @We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.

nasb@1John:3:15 @Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

nasb@1John:3:16 @We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

nasb@1John:3:17 @But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?

nasb@1John:3:18 @Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

nasb@1John:3:19 @We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him

nasb@1John:3:20 @in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

nasb@1John:3:21 @Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

nasb@1John:3:22 @and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

nasb@1John:3:23 @This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.

nasb@1John:3:24 @The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

nasb@1John:4:1 @Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

nasb@1John:4:2 @By this you know the Spirit of God- every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

nasb@1John:4:3 @and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

nasb@1John:4:4 @You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

nasb@1John:4:5 @They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

nasb@1John:4:6 @We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

nasb@1John:4:7 @Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

nasb@1John:4:8 @The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

nasb@1John:4:9 @By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

nasb@1John:4:10 @In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

nasb@1John:4:11 @Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

nasb@1John:4:12 @No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

nasb@1John:4:13 @By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

nasb@1John:4:14 @We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

nasb@1John:4:15 @Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

nasb@1John:4:16 @We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

nasb@1John:4:17 @By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

nasb@1John:4:18 @There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

nasb@1John:4:19 @We love, because He first loved us.

nasb@1John:4:20 @If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

nasb@1John:4:21 @And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

nasb@1John:5:1 @Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.

nasb@1John:5:2 @By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.

nasb@1John:5:3 @For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

nasb@1John:5:4 @For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

nasb@1John:5:5 @Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

nasb@1John:5:6 @This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

nasb@1John:5:7 @For there are three that testify-

nasb@1John:5:8 @the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

nasb@1John:5:9 @If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.

nasb@1John:5:10 @The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

nasb@1John:5:11 @And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

nasb@1John:5:12 @He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

nasb@1John:5:13 @These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

nasb@1John:5:14 @This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

nasb@1John:5:15 @And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

nasb@1John:5:16 @If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.

nasb@1John:5:17 @All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

nasb@1John:5:18 @We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

nasb@1John:5:19 @We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

nasb@1John:5:20 @And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

nasb@1John:5:21 @Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

nasb@2John:1:1 @The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,

nasb@2John:1:2 @for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever-

nasb@2John:1:3 @Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

nasb@2John:1:4 @I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father.

nasb@2John:1:5 @Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

nasb@2John:1:6 @And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

nasb@2John:1:7 @For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

nasb@2John:1:8 @Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

nasb@2John:1:9 @Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.

nasb@2John:1:10 @If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;

nasb@2John:1:11 @for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.

nasb@2John:1:12 @Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that your joy may be made full.

nasb@2John:1:13 @The children of your chosen sister greet you.

nasb@1John:1:1 @The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

nasb@1John:1:2 @Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

nasb@1John:1:3 @For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth.

nasb@1John:1:4 @I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

nasb@1John:1:5 @Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;

nasb@1John:1:6 @and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.

nasb@1John:1:7 @For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

nasb@1John:1:8 @Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth.

nasb@1John:1:9 @I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.

nasb@1John:1:10 @For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.

nasb@1John:1:11 @Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

nasb@1John:1:12 @Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.

nasb@1John:1:13 @I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

nasb@1John:1:14 @but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.

nasb@1John:1:15 @Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.

nasb@Jude:1:1 @Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ-

nasb@Jude:1:2 @May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

nasb@Jude:1:3 @Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

nasb@Jude:1:4 @For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

nasb@Jude:1:5 @Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

nasb@Jude:1:6 @And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

nasb@Jude:1:7 @just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

nasb@Jude:1:8 @Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

nasb@Jude:1:9 @But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, " The Lord rebuke you!"

nasb@Jude:1:10 @But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

nasb@Jude:1:11 @Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

nasb@Jude:1:12 @These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

nasb@Jude:1:13 @wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

nasb@Jude:1:14 @It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, " Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

nasb@Jude:1:15 @to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

nasb@Jude:1:16 @These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

nasb@Jude:1:17 @But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

nasb@Jude:1:18 @that they were saying to you, " In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts."

nasb@Jude:1:19 @These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.

nasb@Jude:1:20 @But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

nasb@Jude:1:21 @keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

nasb@Jude:1:22 @And have mercy on some, who are doubting;

nasb@Jude:1:23 @save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

nasb@Jude:1:24 @Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,

nasb@Jude:1:25 @to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

nasb@Revelation:1:1 @The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,

nasb@Revelation:1:2 @who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

nasb@Revelation:1:3 @Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near.

nasb@Revelation:1:4 @John to the seven churches that are in Asia- Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,

nasb@Revelation:1:5 @and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood--

nasb@Revelation:1:6 @and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-- to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

nasb@Revelation:1:7 @BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

nasb@Revelation:1:8" @I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, " who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

nasb@Revelation:1:9 @I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

nasb@Revelation:1:10 @I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,

nasb@Revelation:1:11 @saying, " Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches- to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

nasb@Revelation:1:12 @Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

nasb@Revelation:1:13 @and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.

nasb@Revelation:1:14 @His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire.

nasb@Revelation:1:15 @His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.

nasb@Revelation:1:16 @In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.

nasb@Revelation:1:17 @When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, " Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,

nasb@Revelation:1:18 @and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

nasb@Revelation:1:19" @Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.

nasb@Revelation:1:20" @As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands- the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

nasb@Revelation:2:1" @To the angel of the church in Ephesus write- The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

nasb@Revelation:2:2 @' I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

nasb@Revelation:2:3 @and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary.

nasb@Revelation:2:4 @'But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

nasb@Revelation:2:5 @'Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.

nasb@Revelation:2:6 @'Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

nasb@Revelation:2:7 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.'

nasb@Revelation:2:8" @And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write- The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:

nasb@Revelation:2:9 @'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

nasb@Revelation:2:10 @'Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

nasb@Revelation:2:11 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'

nasb@Revelation:2:12" @And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write- The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:

nasb@Revelation:2:13 @'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

nasb@Revelation:2:14 @'But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.

nasb@Revelation:2:15 @'So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

nasb@Revelation:2:16 @'Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

nasb@Revelation:2:17 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.'

nasb@Revelation:2:18" @And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write- The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:

nasb@Revelation:2:19 @' I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.

nasb@Revelation:2:20 @'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

nasb@Revelation:2:21 @' I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

nasb@Revelation:2:22 @'Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.

nasb@Revelation:2:23 @'And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

nasb@Revelation:2:24 @'But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you.

nasb@Revelation:2:25 @'Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.

nasb@Revelation:2:26 @' He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS;

nasb@Revelation:2:27 @AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE BROKEN TO PIECES, as I also have received authority from My Father;

nasb@Revelation:2:28 @and I will give him the morning star.

nasb@Revelation:2:29 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

nasb@Revelation:3:1" @To the angel of the church in Sardis write- He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ' I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

nasb@Revelation:3:2 @'Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.

nasb@Revelation:3:3 @'So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

nasb@Revelation:3:4 @'But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

nasb@Revelation:3:5 @' He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

nasb@Revelation:3:6 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

nasb@Revelation:3:7" @And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write- He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

nasb@Revelation:3:8 @' I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

nasb@Revelation:3:9 @'Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie--I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.

nasb@Revelation:3:10 @'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

nasb@Revelation:3:11 @' I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

nasb@Revelation:3:12 @' He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

nasb@Revelation:3:13 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

nasb@Revelation:3:14" @To the angel of the church in Laodicea write- The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

nasb@Revelation:3:15 @' I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.

nasb@Revelation:3:16 @'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

nasb@Revelation:3:17 @'Because you say, " I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

nasb@Revelation:3:18 @I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

nasb@Revelation:3:19 @' Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

nasb@Revelation:3:20 @'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

nasb@Revelation:3:21 @' He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

nasb@Revelation:3:22 @' He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

nasb@Revelation:4:1 @After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, " Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things."

nasb@Revelation:4:2 @Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.

nasb@Revelation:4:3 @And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

nasb@Revelation:4:4 @Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.

nasb@Revelation:4:5 @Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

nasb@Revelation:4:6 @and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

nasb@Revelation:4:7 @The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

nasb@Revelation:4:8 @And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, " HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME."

nasb@Revelation:4:9 @And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,

nasb@Revelation:4:10 @the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

nasb@Revelation:4:11" @ Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created."

nasb@Revelation:5:1 @I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.

nasb@Revelation:5:2 @And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?"

nasb@Revelation:5:3 @And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

nasb@Revelation:5:4 @Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;

nasb@Revelation:5:5 @and one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals."

nasb@Revelation:5:6 @And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

nasb@Revelation:5:7 @And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

nasb@Revelation:5:8 @When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

nasb@Revelation:5:9 @And they sang a new song, saying, " Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

nasb@Revelation:5:10" @You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."

nasb@Revelation:5:11 @Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands,

nasb@Revelation:5:12 @saying with a loud voice, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."

nasb@Revelation:5:13 @And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever."

nasb@Revelation:5:14 @And the four living creatures kept saying, " Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped.

nasb@Revelation:6:1 @Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come."

nasb@Revelation:6:2 @I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

nasb@Revelation:6:3 @When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come."

nasb@Revelation:6:4 @And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.

nasb@Revelation:6:5 @When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

nasb@Revelation:6:6 @And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine."

nasb@Revelation:6:7 @When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come."

nasb@Revelation:6:8 @I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

nasb@Revelation:6:9 @When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;

nasb@Revelation:6:10 @and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, " How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

nasb@Revelation:6:11 @And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.

nasb@Revelation:6:12 @I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

nasb@Revelation:6:13 @and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

nasb@Revelation:6:14 @The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

nasb@Revelation:6:15 @Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

nasb@Revelation:6:16 @and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

nasb@Revelation:6:17 @for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to standNULL"

nasb@Revelation:7:1 @After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

nasb@Revelation:7:2 @And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

nasb@Revelation:7:3 @saying, " Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads."

nasb@Revelation:7:4 @And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel-

nasb@Revelation:7:5 @from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

nasb@Revelation:7:6 @from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

nasb@Revelation:7:7 @from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

nasb@Revelation:7:8 @from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed.

nasb@Revelation:7:9 @After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

nasb@Revelation:7:10 @and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, " Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

nasb@Revelation:7:11 @And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

nasb@Revelation:7:12 @saying, " Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen."

nasb@Revelation:7:13 @Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?"

nasb@Revelation:7:14 @I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

nasb@Revelation:7:15" @For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

nasb@Revelation:7:16" @ They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat;

nasb@Revelation:7:17 @for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

nasb@Revelation:8:1 @When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

nasb@Revelation:8:2 @And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

nasb@Revelation:8:3 @Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

nasb@Revelation:8:4 @And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.

nasb@Revelation:8:5 @Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

nasb@Revelation:8:6 @And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

nasb@Revelation:8:7 @The first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

nasb@Revelation:8:8 @The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,

nasb@Revelation:8:9 @and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.

nasb@Revelation:8:10 @The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.

nasb@Revelation:8:11 @The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

nasb@Revelation:8:12 @The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.

nasb@Revelation:8:13 @Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, " Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

nasb@Revelation:9:1 @Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him.

nasb@Revelation:9:2 @He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

nasb@Revelation:9:3 @Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

nasb@Revelation:9:4 @They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

nasb@Revelation:9:5 @And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.

nasb@Revelation:9:6 @And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

nasb@Revelation:9:7 @The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

nasb@Revelation:9:8 @They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

nasb@Revelation:9:9 @They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

nasb@Revelation:9:10 @They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.

nasb@Revelation:9:11 @They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

nasb@Revelation:9:12 @The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

nasb@Revelation:9:13 @Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

nasb@Revelation:9:14 @one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

nasb@Revelation:9:15 @And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind.

nasb@Revelation:9:16 @The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.

nasb@Revelation:9:17 @And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them- the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.

nasb@Revelation:9:18 @A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

nasb@Revelation:9:19 @For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

nasb@Revelation:9:20 @The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

nasb@Revelation:9:21 @and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.

nasb@Revelation:10:1 @I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

nasb@Revelation:10:2 @and he had in his hand a little book which was open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left on the land;

nasb@Revelation:10:3 @and he cried out with a loud voice, as when a lion roars; and when he had cried out, the seven peals of thunder uttered their voices.

nasb@Revelation:10:4 @When the seven peals of thunder had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, " Seal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write them."

nasb@Revelation:10:5 @Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,

nasb@Revelation:10:6 @and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT, that there will be delay no longer,

nasb@Revelation:10:7 @but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets.

nasb@Revelation:10:8 @Then the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again speaking with me, and saying, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."

nasb@Revelation:10:9 @So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. And he said to me, " Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."

nasb@Revelation:10:10 @I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

nasb@Revelation:10:11 @And they said to me, "You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings."

nasb@Revelation:10:11 @Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.

nasb@Revelation:10:2" @Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.

nasb@Revelation:10:3" @And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

nasb@Revelation:10:4 @These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

nasb@Revelation:10:5 @And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

nasb@Revelation:10:6 @These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

nasb@Revelation:10:7 @When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them.

nasb@Revelation:10:8 @And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

nasb@Revelation:10:9 @Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

nasb@Revelation:10:10 @And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

nasb@Revelation:10:11 @But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.

nasb@Revelation:10:12 @And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, " Come up here." Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.

nasb@Revelation:10:13 @And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

nasb@Revelation:10:14 @The second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

nasb@Revelation:10:15 @Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, " The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever."

nasb@Revelation:10:16 @And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

nasb@Revelation:10:17 @saying, "We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

nasb@Revelation:10:18" @And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

nasb@Revelation:10:19 @And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

nasb@Revelation:11:1 @A great sign appeared in heaven- a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

nasb@Revelation:11:2 @and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

nasb@Revelation:11:3 @Then another sign appeared in heaven- and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.

nasb@Revelation:11:4 @And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

nasb@Revelation:11:5 @And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

nasb@Revelation:11:6 @Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

nasb@Revelation:11:7 @And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war,

nasb@Revelation:11:8 @and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

nasb@Revelation:11:9 @And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

nasb@Revelation:11:10 @Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

nasb@Revelation:11:11" @And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

nasb@Revelation:11:12" @For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time."

nasb@Revelation:11:13 @And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

nasb@Revelation:11:14 @But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

nasb@Revelation:11:15 @And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

nasb@Revelation:11:16 @But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth.

nasb@Revelation:11:17 @So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

nasb@Revelation:12:1 @And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.

nasb@Revelation:12:2 @And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.

nasb@Revelation:12:3 @I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast;

nasb@Revelation:12:4 @they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, " Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?"

nasb@Revelation:12:5 @There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

nasb@Revelation:12:6 @And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven.

nasb@Revelation:12:7 @It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.

nasb@Revelation:12:8 @All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.

nasb@Revelation:12:9 @If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

nasb@Revelation:12:10 @If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.

nasb@Revelation:12:11 @Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.

nasb@Revelation:12:12 @He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

nasb@Revelation:12:13 @He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men.

nasb@Revelation:12:14 @And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

nasb@Revelation:12:15 @And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

nasb@Revelation:12:16 @And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

nasb@Revelation:12:17 @and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

nasb@Revelation:12:18 @Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

nasb@Revelation:13:1 @Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

nasb@Revelation:13:2 @And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

nasb@Revelation:13:3 @And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth.

nasb@Revelation:13:4 @These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

nasb@Revelation:13:5 @And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

nasb@Revelation:13:6 @And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

nasb@Revelation:13:7 @and he said with a loud voice, " Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters."

nasb@Revelation:13:8 @And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, " Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality."

nasb@Revelation:13:9 @Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

nasb@Revelation:13:10 @he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

nasb@Revelation:13:11" @And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

nasb@Revelation:13:12 @Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

nasb@Revelation:13:13 @And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, ' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them."

nasb@Revelation:13:14 @Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

nasb@Revelation:13:15 @And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, " Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe."

nasb@Revelation:13:16 @Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

nasb@Revelation:13:17 @And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

nasb@Revelation:13:18 @Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, " Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe."

nasb@Revelation:13:19 @So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

nasb@Revelation:13:20 @And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses' bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.

nasb@Revelation:14:1 @Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

nasb@Revelation:14:2 @And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.

nasb@Revelation:14:3 @And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, " Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!

nasb@Revelation:14:4" @ Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For ALL THE NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU, FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED."

nasb@Revelation:14:5 @After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened,

nasb@Revelation:14:6 @and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.

nasb@Revelation:14:7 @Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

nasb@Revelation:14:8 @And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

nasb@Revelation:15:1 @Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."

nasb@Revelation:15:2 @So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

nasb@Revelation:15:3 @The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.

nasb@Revelation:15:4 @Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

nasb@Revelation:15:5 @And I heard the angel of the waters saying, " Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;

nasb@Revelation:15:6 @for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."

nasb@Revelation:15:7 @And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."

nasb@Revelation:15:8 @The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

nasb@Revelation:15:9 @Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

nasb@Revelation:15:10 @Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,

nasb@Revelation:15:11 @and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.

nasb@Revelation:15:12 @The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.

nasb@Revelation:15:13 @And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

nasb@Revelation:15:14 @for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.

nasb@Revelation:15:15 @("Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.")

nasb@Revelation:15:16 @And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.

nasb@Revelation:15:17 @Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, " It is done."

nasb@Revelation:15:18 @And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.

nasb@Revelation:15:19 @The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.

nasb@Revelation:15:20 @And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

nasb@Revelation:15:21 @And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.

nasb@Revelation:16:1 @Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,

nasb@Revelation:16:2 @with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality."

nasb@Revelation:16:3 @And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

nasb@Revelation:16:4 @The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality,

nasb@Revelation:16:5 @and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, " BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

nasb@Revelation:16:6 @And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

nasb@Revelation:16:7 @And the angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

nasb@Revelation:16:8" @ The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come.

nasb@Revelation:16:9" @ Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,

nasb@Revelation:16:10 @and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.

nasb@Revelation:16:11" @The beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction.

nasb@Revelation:16:12" @The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

nasb@Revelation:16:13" @These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

nasb@Revelation:16:14" @These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful."

nasb@Revelation:16:15 @And he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

nasb@Revelation:16:16" @And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.

nasb@Revelation:16:17" @For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.

nasb@Revelation:16:18" @The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."

nasb@Revelation:17:1 @After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory.

nasb@Revelation:17:2 @And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, " Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

nasb@Revelation:17:3" @For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality."

nasb@Revelation:17:4 @I heard another voice from heaven, saying, " Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

nasb@Revelation:17:5 @for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

nasb@Revelation:17:6" @ Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.

nasb@Revelation:17:7" @ To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ' I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.'

nasb@Revelation:17:8" @For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.

nasb@Revelation:17:9" @And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

nasb@Revelation:17:10 @standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ' Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

nasb@Revelation:17:11" @And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more--

nasb@Revelation:17:12 @cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble,

nasb@Revelation:17:13 @and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

nasb@Revelation:17:14" @The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them.

nasb@Revelation:17:15" @The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

nasb@Revelation:17:16 @saying, ' Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;

nasb@Revelation:17:17 @for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!' And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance,

nasb@Revelation:17:18 @and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ' What city is like the great city?'

nasb@Revelation:17:19" @And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, ' Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her wealth, for in one hour she has been laid waste!'

nasb@Revelation:17:20" @ Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her."

nasb@Revelation:17:21 @Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.

nasb@Revelation:17:22" @And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;

nasb@Revelation:17:23 @and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.

nasb@Revelation:17:24" @And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth."

nasb@Revelation:18:1 @After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, " Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God;

nasb@Revelation:18:2 @BECAUSE HIS JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and HE HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS BOND-SERVANTS ON HER."

nasb@Revelation:18:3 @And a second time they said, " Hallelujah! HER SMOKE RISES UP FOREVER AND EVER."

nasb@Revelation:18:4 @And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, " Amen. Hallelujah!"

nasb@Revelation:18:5 @And a voice came from the throne, saying, " Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great."

nasb@Revelation:18:6 @Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, " Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.

nasb@Revelation:18:7" @Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready."

nasb@Revelation:18:8 @It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

nasb@Revelation:18:9 @Then he said to me, " Write, ' Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" And he said to me, " These are true words of God."

nasb@Revelation:18:10 @Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

nasb@Revelation:18:11 @And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.

nasb@Revelation:18:12 @His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself.

nasb@Revelation:18:13 @He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

nasb@Revelation:18:14 @And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.

nasb@Revelation:18:15 @From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.

nasb@Revelation:18:16 @And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, " KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

nasb@Revelation:18:17 @Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, " Come, assemble for the great supper of God,

nasb@Revelation:18:18 @so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great."

nasb@Revelation:18:19 @And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

nasb@Revelation:18:20 @And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

nasb@Revelation:18:21 @And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

nasb@Revelation:19:1 @Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

nasb@Revelation:19:2 @And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

nasb@Revelation:19:3 @and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

nasb@Revelation:19:4 @Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

nasb@Revelation:19:5 @The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.

nasb@Revelation:19:6 @Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

nasb@Revelation:19:7 @When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,

nasb@Revelation:19:8 @and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.

nasb@Revelation:19:9 @And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.

nasb@Revelation:19:10 @And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

nasb@Revelation:19:11 @Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

nasb@Revelation:19:12 @And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

nasb@Revelation:19:13 @And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.

nasb@Revelation:19:14 @Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

nasb@Revelation:19:15 @And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

nasb@Revelation:20:1 @Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.

nasb@Revelation:20:2 @And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

nasb@Revelation:20:3 @And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

nasb@Revelation:20:4 @and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."

nasb@Revelation:20:5 @And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

nasb@Revelation:20:6 @Then He said to me, " It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

nasb@Revelation:20:7" @ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.

nasb@Revelation:20:8" @ But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

nasb@Revelation:20:9 @Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, " Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

nasb@Revelation:20:10 @And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

nasb@Revelation:20:11 @having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

nasb@Revelation:20:12 @It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.

nasb@Revelation:20:13 @There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west.

nasb@Revelation:20:14 @And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

nasb@Revelation:20:15 @The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall.

nasb@Revelation:20:16 @The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal.

nasb@Revelation:20:17 @And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements.

nasb@Revelation:20:18 @The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

nasb@Revelation:20:19 @The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

nasb@Revelation:20:20 @the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

nasb@Revelation:20:21 @And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

nasb@Revelation:20:22 @I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

nasb@Revelation:20:23 @And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

nasb@Revelation:20:24 @The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.

nasb@Revelation:20:25 @In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed;

nasb@Revelation:20:26 @and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it;

nasb@Revelation:20:27 @and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

nasb@Revelation:21:1 @Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

nasb@Revelation:21:2 @in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

nasb@Revelation:21:3 @There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him;

nasb@Revelation:21:4 @they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

nasb@Revelation:21:5 @And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.

nasb@Revelation:21:6 @And he said to me, " These words are faithful and true"; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

nasb@Revelation:21:7" @And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book."

nasb@Revelation:21:8 @I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

nasb@Revelation:21:9 @But he said to me, "Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship God."

nasb@Revelation:21:10 @And he said to me, " Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

nasb@Revelation:21:11" @ Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy."

nasb@Revelation:21:12" @Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done.

nasb@Revelation:21:13" @I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

nasb@Revelation:21:14 @Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

nasb@Revelation:21:15 @Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

nasb@Revelation:21:16" @ I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

nasb@Revelation:21:17 @The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.

nasb@Revelation:21:18 @I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book- if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book;

nasb@Revelation:21:19 @and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

nasb@Revelation:21:20 @He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming quickly." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

nasb@Revelation:21:21 @The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.

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