Acts 5:4

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

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

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

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?

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”

But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”

Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into Yahweh’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into Yahweh’s house,

and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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.

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

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.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”

God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.