Confusion

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

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

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.”

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

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

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed. — read the full passage →

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!” — read the full passage →

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” — read the full passage →

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

God spoke all these words, saying, — 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,

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.