Excuses

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ — read the full passage →

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.” — read the full passage →

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!” — read the full passage →

Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.” — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. — read the full passage →

So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. — read the full passage →

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

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.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” — read the full passage →

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.

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

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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 →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Don’t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

“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.”

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

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

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

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

He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

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

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. — 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.

Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. — read the full passage →

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.

It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”

For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you or too distant.

Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” — read the full passage →

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!” — read the full passage →

He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”