Autumn

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

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 will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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,

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. — read the full passage →

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. — read the full passage →

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. — read the full passage →

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “‘Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. — read the full passage →

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. — read the full passage →

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.