Purposes

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

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

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

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

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! — read the full passage →

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

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.”

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

“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 →

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. — read the full passage →

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

“You shall not murder.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →