Fleece

And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, — read the full passage →

And Gideon saith unto God, `Let not Thine anger burn against me, and I speak only this time; let me try, I pray Thee, only this time with the fleece--let there be, I pray Thee, drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth let there be dew.'

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

And Jerubbaal (he <FI>is<Fi> Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley. — read the full passage →

lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth drought--then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Midian seven years, — read the full passage →

And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy <FI>it<Fi> , because of the ten.'

If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

and it is so, and he riseth early on the morrow, and presseth the fleece, and wringeth dew out of the fleece--the fulness of the bowl, of water.

lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth drought--then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;' — read the full passage →

And Deborah singeth--also Barak son of Abinoam--on that day, saying: -- — read the full passage →

And God doth so on that night, and there is drought on the fleece alone, and on all the earth there hath been dew.

And Gideon saith unto God, `If Thou art Saviour of Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken,

the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;

And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Midian seven years,

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.

Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth drought--then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;' — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave to them power over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be healing every sickness, and every malady.

And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil <FI>is<Fi> on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

and lo, a hand hath come against me, and shaketh me on my knees and the palms of my hands. — read the full passage →

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind; — read the full passage →

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

infirm ones be healing, lepers be cleansing, dead be raising, demons be casting out--freely ye did receive, freely give.

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ--let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings--

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;

and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs;

Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without--and he sat down upon the tribunal--to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;

`I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear <FI>them<Fi> now;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain--to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this--the Son of Man?'

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

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

and he said to them, `These <FI>are<Fi> the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed--that have been written through the prophets--to the Son of Man,

`Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness, — read the full passage →

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons; — read the full passage →

And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him, — read the full passage →

and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, `Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?' which is, being interpreted, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

and Jesus answering said to him, `Seest thou these great buildings? there may not be left a stone upon a stone, that may not be thrown down.'

And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.' — read the full passage →

and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,' that is, `Be thou opened;'

and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,'

but the rest said, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come--about to save him.' — read the full passage →

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea--for they were fishers--

To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars <FI>are<Fi> behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

`In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a vision hath appeared unto me--I Daniel--after that which had appeared unto me at the beginning. — read the full passage →

And the Chaldeans speak to the king <FI>in<Fi> Aramaean, `O king, to the ages live, tell the dream to thy servants, and the interpretation we do shew.'

And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.

And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.

Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.

And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it. — read the full passage →

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.