City Upon A Hill

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

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

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus 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.”

He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

“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 →

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

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — 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,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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 →

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

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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 →

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said one to another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.

He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel’s tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, ‘The donkeys which you went to seek have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, “What shall I do for my son?”’

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,