All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. (John 10:8 ESV)

But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight. 

(Luke 16:15 NET)

As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the LORD God of Israel found anything good. 

(1 Kings 14:12–13 NET)

He said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.

(1 Kings 13:18 NAS95)

So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.

(1 Kings 11:6 NIV)

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with gratitude.

(Colossians 2:6–7 HCSB)

I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live, and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.

(Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 NET)

Blessed are those slaves whom their master finds alert when he returns! I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, have them take their place at the table, and will come and wait on them!

(Luke 12:37 NET)

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

(Hebrews 8:13 NET)

The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.

(Luke 16:16–17 ESV)

I must proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.

(Luke 4:43 HCSB)

He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain . . . .

 - 1 Timothy 6:4–6, ESV

First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

 - 1 Timothy 2:1-2, HCSB

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

 - Leviticus 27:34, NET

Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

 - Leviticus 10:17

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.

 - Genesis 31:42, HCSB

When they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

 - Exodus 16:18, NET

When Saul turned around to leave Samuel, God changed his heart, and all the signs came about that day.

 - 1 Samuel 10:9, HCSB

With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.

 - 2 Corinthians 8:18, ESV

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

Everything you do should be done in love.

 - 1 Corinthians 16:13–14, NET

Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

 - Luke 12:7

For the kingdom of God will not come in talk, but in power.

 - 1 Corinthians 4:20

So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. - 1 Corinthians 3:21-23, ESV

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. - 1 Corinthians 1:17, ESV

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand: He directs it wherever He chooses. (Proverbs 21:1, HCSB)

I bet He thinks He can handle presidents as well.

Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!" - Nehemiah 13:26 NET

So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. - Nehemiah 8:17 NET

They read out of the book of the law of God, translating and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was read. - Nehemiah 8:8, HCSB

As Christians, we must recognize that though we belong to God and are forgiven of our sin, our minds are not totally purified in this life. We are called to actively “put to death the misdeeds of the body” (Rom. 8: 13). The Christian life is, as Luther put it, one of “continual repentance,” living in Christ’s forgiveness as we acknowledge our sins.

Plummer, Robert; Haste, Matt (2015-09-17). Held in Honor: Wisdom for Your Marriage from Voices of the Past (Kindle Locations 1172-1174). Christian Focus Publications. Kindle Edition.

They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. - John 8:39-40, ESV

And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.” - Genesis 18:1-5, ESV

Every wound is not healed with the same remedy. - Ignatius (30-107 AD)

Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart. I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord. I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation. - Psalms 40:7–10, ESV