Hedges

Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath--round about?

Sayings of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold. — read the full passage →

And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him, — read the full passage →

And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.

`And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;

A messenger of Jehovah is encamping, Round about those who fear Him, And He armeth them.

The way of the slothful <FI>is<Fi> as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.

Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

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

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king, injury I have not done.'

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

Their best one <FI>is<Fi> as a brier, The upright one--than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen--Thy visitation--hath come. Now is their perplexity.

And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land--not to destroy it, And I have not found.

Who is making thy border peace, <FI>With<Fi> the fat of wheat He satisfieth Thee.

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

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,

because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

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

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

`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;

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

and said thus: To life! and thou, peace; and thy house, peace; and all that thou hast--peace!

`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, — read the full passage →

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and if Christ hath not risen, then void <FI>is<Fi> our preaching, and void also your faith, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

The sum of Thy word <FI>is<Fi> truth, And to the age <FI>is<Fi> every judgment of Thy righteousness!

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first, and I have written on the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou hast broken; — read the full passage →

And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, — read the full passage →

And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise--in your hearts; — read the full passage →

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, — read the full passage →

What--to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones! — read the full passage →

<FI> Lamed.<Fi> To the age, O Jehovah, Thy word is set up in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one; — read the full passage →

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: — 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;

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be!

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing, — read the full passage →

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

And there are also many other things--as many as Jesus did--which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.

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

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

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

`The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many, — read the full passage →

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea, — read the full passage →

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; — read the full passage →

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

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

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

And Jeremiah hath taken another roll, and giveth it unto Baruch son of Neriah the scribe, and he writeth on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burnt in the fire; and again there were added unto them many words like these.

And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah--after the king's burning the roll, even the words that Baruch hath written from the mouth of Jeremiah--saying: — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? — read the full passage →

Near <FI>art<Fi> Thou, O Jehovah, And all Thy commands <FI>are<Fi> truth. — read the full passage →

Tried <FI>is<Fi> thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth. — read the full passage →

Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place? — read the full passage →

A son of twenty and two years <FI>is<Fi> Ahaziah in his reigning, and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Athaliah daughter of Omri;

and David captureth from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyeth utterly all the chariots, and leaveth of them a hundred chariots <FI>only<Fi> .

And he removeth Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs, and the mighty ones of the land--he hath caused a removal to go from Jerusalem to Babylon,

A son of eighteen years <FI>is<Fi> Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem,

And Hilkiah the high priest saith unto Shaphan the scribe, `A book of the law I have found in the house of Jehovah;' and Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan, and he readeth it.

and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in all the way of David his father, and hath not turned aside--right or left.

a son of twenty and two years <FI>is<Fi> Ahaziah in his reigning, and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Athaliah daughter of Omri king of Israel,

and David captureth from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyeth utterly the whole of the charioteers, only he leaveth of them a hundred charioteers.

and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me.

`And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me,