Treating Sinners

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”

“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. — read the full passage →

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.” — read the full passage →

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. — read the full passage →

Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. — read the full passage →

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved — read the full passage →

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. — read the full passage →

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

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! — read the full passage →

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, — read the full passage →

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! — read the full passage →

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. — read the full passage →

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped. — read the full passage →

The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities. — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →