Ash Wednesday

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. — read the full passage →

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. — read the full passage →

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” — read the full passage →

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. — read the full passage →

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” — read the full passage →

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? — read the full passage →

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; — read the full passage →

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

Then Job answered Yahweh, — read the full passage →

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ — read the full passage →

He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →