- God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.
- Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
- Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
- We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
- The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously. - Who “will pay back to everyone according to their works.”
- A fool vents all of his anger,
but a wise man brings himself under control. - Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.
- I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips.
I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. - I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back,
for I have mercy on them.
They will be as though I had not cast them off,
for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them. - Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.”’
- If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
- See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
- How I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house.
- Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh. - But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
- There are those who covet greedily all day long;
but the righteous give and don’t withhold. - Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting, not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
- “For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!”
- While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing, who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
- If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.
- Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
- For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
for there is no one besides you,
nor is there any rock like our God.
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God.If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?