Lessons

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

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.”

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

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 →

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

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

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.

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

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.”

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — 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 →

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.

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

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

“‘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 →

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 →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

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

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

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

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 →

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 →

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. — 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.

They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon; — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. — read the full passage →

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 →

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, — read the full passage →

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need. — read the full passage →

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

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears”; — read the full passage →

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, — read the full passage →

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — read the full passage →

and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. — read the full passage →

“Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, ‘When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. — read the full passage →

“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.