Vanweë Julle Ongeregtighede | Because Of Your Iniquities

Isaiah 43:1-28

[1]  But now, thus said יהוה, your Creator, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and He who formed you, O Yisra’ĕl, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, you are Mine.

[2]  “When you pass through the waters, I am with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you.

[3]  “For I am יהוה your Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, your Saviour; I gave Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seḇa in your place.

[4]  “Since you were precious in My eyes, you have been esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and peoples for your life.

[5]  “Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.

[6]  “I shall say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth –

[7]  all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.”

[8]  He shall bring out a blind people who have eyes, and deaf ones who have ears.

[9]  All the nations shall be assembled, and the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show us former events? Let them give their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”

[10]  “You are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none.

[11]  “I, I am יהוה, and besides Me there is no saviour.

[12]  “I, I have declared and saved, and made known, and there was no foreign mighty one among you. And you are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “that I am Ěl.

[13]  “Even from the day I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it back?”

[14]  Thus said יהוה, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “For your sake I shall send to Baḇel, and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.

[15]  “I am יהוה, your Set-apart One, Creator of Yisra’ĕl, your Sovereign.”

[16]  Thus said יהוה, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,

[17]  who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power (they lie down together, they do not rise, they have been extinguished, they have been quenched like a wick):

[18]  “Do not remember the former events, nor consider the events of old.

[19]  “See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

[20]  “The beast of the field esteems Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen,

[21]  this people I have formed for Myself, let them relate My praise.

[22]  “But you have not called on Me, O Yaʽaqoḇ, for you have been weary of Me, O Yisra’ĕl.

[23]  “You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, nor have you esteemed Me with your slaughterings. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.

[24]  “You have not bought Me sweet cane with silver, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your slaughterings. You have only burdened Me with your sins, you have wearied Me with your crookednesses.

[25]  “I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no more.

[26]  “Remind Me, let us enter into judgment, together; relate, that you might be declared right.

[27]  “Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have transgressed against Me.

[28]  “So I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Yaʽaqoḇ to the curse, and Yisra’ĕl to scorn.

Jeremiah 43:1-13

[1]  And it came to be, when Yirmeyahu had ended speaking all these words to all the people – all the words of יהוה their Elohim, for which יהוה their Elohim had sent him to them –

[2]  that Azaryah son of Hoshayah, and Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Yirmeyahu, “You are speaking a lie! יהוה our Elohim has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there.’

[3]  “For Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah is moving you against us, to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death or exile us to Baḇel.”

[4]  So Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the commanders of the army, and all the people disobeyed the voice of יהוה, to stay in the land of Yehuḏah.

[5]  And Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ and all the commanders of the army took all the remnant of Yehuḏah who had returned to dwell in the land of Yehuḏah, from all nations where they had been driven –

[6]  the men, and the women, and the children, and the sovereign’s daughters, and every being whom Neḇuzaraḏan, chief of the guard, had left with Geḏalyahu son of Aḥiqam, son of Shaphan, and Yirmeyahu the prophet, and Baruḵ son of Nĕriyahu.

[7]  So they went to the land of Mitsrayim, for they disobeyed the voice of יהוה. And they went as far as Taḥpanḥes.

[8]  And the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu in Taḥpanḥes, saying,

[9]  “Take large stones in your hand, and you shall hide them before the eyes of the men of Yehuḏah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Taḥpanḥes.

[10]  “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “See, I am sending, and I shall bring Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant. And I shall set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he shall spread his canopy over them.

[11]  “And he shall come and smite the land of Mitsrayim, bringing death to those appointed for death, and captivity to those for captivity, and the sword to those for the sword.

[12]  “And he shall set fire to the houses of the mighty ones of Mitsrayim. And he shall burn them and take them captive. And he shall cover himself with the land of Mitsrayim, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.

[13]  “And he shall break the stone pillars of the House of the Sun which are in the land of Mitsrayim, and he shall burn the houses of the mighty ones of the Mitsrites with fire.” ’ ”

 Vir die Afrikaanse mense:  Jesaja 43 en Jeremia 43.

Die Skepper Van Alles | The Creator Of All

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

[1]  Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them”:

[2]  Before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

[3]  in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men shall bow down; when the grinders shall cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows shall become dim;

[4]  and the doors shall be shut in the streets, and the sound of grinding is low; and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are bowed down;

[5]  furthermore, they are afraid of what is high, and of low places in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden, and desire perishes. For man is going to his everlasting home, and the mourners shall go about the streets.

[6]  Remember Him before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the jar shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well,

[7]  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

[8]  “Futility! Futility!” said the Qoheleth, “All is futile.”

[9]  And besides being wise, Qoheleth also taught the people knowledge, and he listened and sought out – set in order many proverbs.

[10]  Qoheleth sought to find out words of delight, and words of truth, rightly written.

[11]  The words of the wise are like goads, and as nails driven by the masters of collections – they were given by one Shepherd.

[12]  And besides these, my son, be warned – the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh.

[13]  Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this applies to all mankind!

[14]  For Elohim shall bring every work into right-ruling, including all that is hidden, whether good or whether evil.

Prediker 12:1-14

[1]  En dink aan jou Skepper in die dae van jou jonkheid voordat die ongelukkige dae kom en die jare aanbreek waarvan jy sal sê: Ek het daar geen behae in nie—

[2]  voordat die son en die lig en die maan en die sterre verduister word en die wolke terugkom ná die reën,

[3]  dié dag wanneer die wagters van die huis sal bewe en die sterk manne krom word en die malers die werk staak, omdat hulle te min geword het, en die wat deur die vensters kyk, verduister word,

[4]  en die deure na die straat gesluit word, terwyl die geruis van die meul verswak; en hy opstaan as die voëltjies begin sing en al die tone van die lied dof sal word.

[5]  Ook sal hy bang wees vir ‘n hoogte, en verskriklike dinge sal op die pad wees! En die amandelboom sal in bloei staan, en die sprinkaan sal homself met moeite voortsleep, en die kapperkruid nutteloos wees; want die mens gaan na sy ewige huis, en die rouklaers sal op die straat rondgaan.

[6]  Voordat die silwerdraad verwyder word en die goue oliekruik stukkend val en die kruik by die fontein gebreek word en die wiel stukkend in die put val

[7]  en die stof na die aarde terugkeer soos dit gewees het, en die gees na Elohym terugkeer wat dit gegee het.

[8]  Alles tevergeefs, sê die Prediker, dit is alles tevergeefs.

[9]  En behalwe dat die Prediker ‘n wyse was, het hy die volk nog kennis geleer en het oorweeg en ondersoek; hy het baie spreuke opgestel.

[10]  Die Prediker het gesoek om welgevallige woorde te vind en wat reg geskrywe is—woorde van waarheid.

[11]  Die woorde van die wyse manne is soos prikkels; en soos spykers, diep ingeslaan, is die versamelde spreuke; hulle is deur die enige Herder gegee.

[12]  En buitendien, my seun, wees gewaarsku; aan baie boeke maak kom geen einde nie, en baie studie is vermoeiing van die vlees.

[13]  Die hoofsaak van alles wat gehoor is, is: Vrees Elohym en hou sy gebooie; want dit geld vir alle mense.

[14]  Want Elohym sal elke werk bring in die gerig wat kom oor al die verborge dinge, goed of sleg.

Regterstoel van Elohym | Judgement Seat of Elohim

Luke 12:56-59

[56]  “Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?

[57]  “And why, also, do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

[58]  “For, as you go with your opponent to a ruler, try hard along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

[59]  “I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite.”

2 Chronicles 19:5-7

[5]  And he appointed judges in the land in all the walled cities of Yehuḏah, city by city,

[6]  and said to the judges, “Watch what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for יהוה who is with you in the matter of right-ruling.

[7]  “And now, let the fear of יהוה be upon you. Guard and do it, for there is no unrighteousness with יהוה our Elohim, nor partiality, nor taking of bribes.”

1 Corinthians 6:2-10

[2]  Do you not know that the set-apart ones shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

[3]  Do you not know that we shall judge messengers? How much more, matters of this life?

[4]  If then you truly have judgments of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are least esteemed by the assembly?

[5]  I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise one among you, not even one, who shall be able to judge between his brothers?

[6]  But brother against brother goes to be judged and that before unbelievers!

[7]  Already, then, there is a failure with you, that you have lawsuits among you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

[8]  But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and that to your brothers!

[9]  Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the reign of Elohim? Do not be deceived. Neither those who whore, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

[10]  nor thieves, nor greedy of gain, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the reign of Elohim.¹ Footnote: ¹Gal. 5:19-21, Eph. 5:3-5.

 Vir die Afrikaanse mense:  Lukas 12:56-59, 2 Kronieke 19:5-7, 1 Korinthiërs 6:2-10

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Seven of Seven [End-time Restoration and Revival]

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH SEVEN of SEVEN: 

Psalms 134:1-3

[1]  Come, bless יהוה, All you servants of יהוה, Who are standing in the House of יהוה by night!

[2]  Lift up your hands in the set-apart place, And bless יהוה.

[3]  יהוה, Maker of the heavens and earth, Does bless you from Tsiyon!

Psalms 138:1-8

[1]  I give You thanks with all my heart; Before the mighty ones I sing praises to You.

[2]  I bow myself toward Your set-apart Hĕḵal, And give thanks to Your Name For Your kindness and for Your truth; For You have made great Your Word, Your Name, above all.

[3]  On the day I called You did answer me, You made me bold with strength in my being.

[4]  Let all the sovereigns of the earth Give thanks to You, O יהוה, When they shall hear the words of Your mouth.

[5]  And let them sing of the ways of יהוה, For great is the esteem of יהוה.

[6]  Though יהוה is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance.

[7]  Though I walk in the midst of distress, You revive me; You stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand saves me.

[8]  יהוה does perfect for me. O יהוה, Your kindness is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

The Destruction Of The Beast

The salvation of Elohim has come and who can abide therein?  Is it not for the sake of His elect, whom you persecute, scold and mock daily?

Nahum 3:1-19

[1]  Woe to the city of blood! All of it is a lie, filled with plunder, the prey is not lacking.

[2]  The sound of a whip and the sound of rattling wheels, of galloping horses, of jolting chariots,

[3]  mounted horsemen with bright sword and glittering spear, and many wounded, and a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses, they stumble over the corpses –

[4]  because of the many whorings of the well-favoured whore, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her whorings, and clans by her sorceries.

[5]  “See, I am against you,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and shall lift up your skirts over your face, and shall show nations your nakedness, and reigns your shame.

[6]  “And I shall cast abominations upon you, and treat you as foolish, and make a spectacle of you.

[7]  “And it shall be that all who see you flee from you, and say, ‘Ninewĕh is laid waste! Who does mourn for her?’ Where do I seek comforters for you?”

[8]  Are you better than No Amon, who dwelt by the Nile-streams, with waters around her, whose rampart was like the sea, whose wall was like the sea?

[9]  Kush and Mitsrayim were her strength, even unlimited. Put and Luḇim were your helpers.

[10]  Yet she was exiled, she went into captivity. At the head of every street her young children were dashed to pieces. Lots were cast for her esteemed men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

[11]  You too are to become drunk, you are to go into hiding. You too are to seek refuge from the enemy.

[12]  All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs, when shaken they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

[13]  See, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land shall be opened wide to your enemies. Fire shall consume your gate bars.

[14]  Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your defences! Go into the clay and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brick mould!

[15]  There a fire shall consume you, a sword cut you off, eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locust!

[16]  You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust shall strip off and fly away.

[17]  Your officials are like the locusts, and your marshals are like the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges on a cold day – when the sun rises they flee away, and the place where they are is unknown.

[18]  Your shepherds have slumbered, O sovereign of Ashshur, your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them.

[19]  Your injury has no healing, your wound is grievous. All who hear news of you shall clap their hands over you. For over whom did your evil not pass continually?

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Six of Seven

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH SIX of SEVEN: 

Isaiah 42:1-25

[1]  “See, My Servant whom I uphold, My Chosen One My being has delighted in! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He brings forth right-ruling to the nations.

[2]  “He does not cry out, nor lifts up His voice, nor causes His voice to be heard in the street.

[3]  “A crushed reed He does not break, and smoking flax He does not quench. He brings forth right-ruling in accordance with truth.

[4]  “He does not become weak or crushed, until He has established right-ruling in the earth. And the coastlands wait for His Torah.”

[5]  Thus said the Ěl, יהוה, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it:

[6]  “I, יהוה, have called You in righteousness, and I take hold of Your hand and guard You, and give You for a covenant to a people, for a light to the gentiles,

[7]  to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

[8]  “I am יהוה, that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols.

[9]  “See, the former predictions have come, and new ones I am declaring; before they spring forth I let you hear them.”

[10]  Sing to יהוה a new song; His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

[11]  Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Qĕḏar dwells. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

[12]  Let them give esteem to יהוה, and declare His praise in the coastlands.

[13]  יהוה goes forth like a mighty man. He stirs up ardour like a fighter. He cries out, yea, shout aloud. Over His enemies He shows Himself mighty.

[14]  “I have kept silent from of old, I have been still and held Myself back. Like a woman in labour I now cry out, I pant and gasp at once.

[15]  “I lay waste mountains and hills, and I dry up all their plants. And I shall make rivers become coastlands, and I dry up pools.

[16]  “And I shall lead the blind by a way they have not known – in paths they have not known I lead them. I make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for them, and I shall not forsake them.

[17]  “Those who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back, utterly ashamed.

[18]  “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, and see.

[19]  “Who is blind but My servant, or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as servant of יהוה?

[20]  “You see much, but do not observe; ears are open, but do not hear.”

[21]  It has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed.

[22]  But this is a people robbed and plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no one to say, “Restore!”

[23]  Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the time to come?

[24]  Who gave Yaʽaqoḇ for plunder, and Yisra’ĕl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah!

[25]  So He has poured on him His burning displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not take it to heart!

Jeremiah 42:1-22

[1]  Then all the commanders of the army, and Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and Yezanyah son of Hoshayah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near

[2]  and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, “We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to יהוה your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.

[3]  “And let יהוה your Elohim show us the way in which we should walk and the word we should do.”

[4]  And Yirmeyahu the prophet said to them, “I have heard. See, I am praying to יהוה your Elohim according to your words, and it shall be that I declare to you all the word יהוה answers you. I withhold not a word from you.”

[5]  And they said to Yirmeyahu, “Let יהוה be a true and steadfast witness between us, if we do not do according to all the word which יהוה your Elohim sends us by you.

[6]  “Whether good or evil, let us obey the voice of יהוה our Elohim to whom we send you, in order that it might be well with us when we obey the voice of יהוה our Elohim.”

[7]  And after ten days it came to be that the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu.

[8]  So he called Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ, and all the commanders of the army which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

[9]  and said to them, “Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him,

[10]  ‘If you would indeed stay in this land, then I shall build you and not pull you down, and I shall plant you and not pluck you up. For I have relented of the evil I have done to you.

[11]  ‘Do not be afraid of the sovereign of Baḇel, of whom you are afraid. Do not be afraid of him,’ declares יהוה, ‘for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.

[12]  ‘And I shall show you compassion, so that he has compassion on you and let you return to your own land.’

[13]  “But if you say, ‘We are not staying in this land,’ and so disobey the voice of יהוה your Elohim,

[14]  saying, ‘No, but we are going to the land of Mitsrayim so that we see no fighting, nor hear the sound of the ram’s horn, nor hunger for bread, and there we shall stay,’

[15]  then hear the word of יהוה, O remnant of Yehuḏah! Thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter Mitsrayim, and shall go to sojourn there,

[16]  then it shall be that the sword which you feared overtakes you there in the land of Mitsrayim, and the scarcity of food of which you were afraid clings to you there in Mitsrayim, and you die there.

[17]  ‘And so it shall be with all the men who set their faces to go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence, and not one of them shall survive or escape from the evil I am bringing upon them.’

[18]  “For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘As My displeasure and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured out on you when you enter Mitsrayim. And you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and you shall see this place no more.’

[19]  “יהוה has spoken about you, O remnant of Yehuḏah, ‘Do not go to Mitsrayim!’ Know for certain that I have warned you this day.

[20]  “For you deceived yourselves when you sent me to יהוה your Elohim, saying, ‘Pray for us to יהוה our Elohim, and according to all that יהוה your Elohim says, so declare to us and we shall do it.’

[21]  “So I have declared it to you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of יהוה your Elohim in all which He has sent me to you.

[22]  “And now, know for certain that you shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence in the place where you have desired to go to sojourn.”

Vir die Afrikaanse mense:  Jesaja 42 / Jeremia 42

Divine Decree concerning the South Land: Speech Five of Seven

under the BANNER of Yahweh, He speaks to this nation in the south land. A Divine Decree to follow after the slaying of the deceitful, the liars, the wrong doers and the wicked, who are even now among His people in the south and also scattered around the globe. SPEECH FIVE of SEVEN: 

Ephesians 4:13-24

[13]  until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,

[14]  so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,¹ Footnote: ¹5:6, also 2 Cor. 10:5, 2 Cor. 11:3-14, Gal. 1:6-9, 2 Tim. 3:1-8, 2 Tim. 4:2-4, 2 Peter 2:2-22, Jud. vv. 10-19.

[15]  but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,

[16]  from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

[17]  So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk,¹ in the futility of their mind, Footnote: ¹1 Cor. 12:2, and Jer. 10:2.

[18]  having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[19]  who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

[20]  But you have not so learned Messiah,

[21]  if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in יהושע:

[22]  that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,

[23]  and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

[24]  and that you put on the renewed man¹ which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth. Footnote: ¹Rom. 8:1.

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[13]  totdat ons almal kom tot die eenheid van die geloof en van die kennis van die Seun van Elohym, tot ‘n volwasse man, tot die mate van die volle grootte van Messías;

[14]  sodat ons nie meer kinders sou wees nie wat soos golwe geslinger en heen en weer gedryf word deur elke wind van lering, deur die bedrieëry van die mense, deur sluheid om listiglik tot dwaling te bring;

[15]  maar, terwyl ons in liefde die waarheid betrag, in alles sou opgroei in Hom wat die Hoof is, naamlik Messías,

[16]  uit wie die hele liggaam—goed saamgevoeg en saamverbind deur die ondersteuning wat elke lid gee volgens die werking van elke afsonderlike deel in sy mate—die groei van die liggaam bevorder vir sy eie opbouing in liefde.

[17]  Dit sê en betuig ek dan in Jahweh, dat julle nie meer moet wandel soos die ander heidene ook wandel in die verdwaasdheid van hulle gemoed nie—

[18]  mense wat verduisterd is in die verstand en vervreemd van die lewe van Elohym deur die onkunde wat in hulle is vanweë die verharding van hulle hart;

[19]  wat ongevoelig geword het en hulle oorgegee het aan die ongebondenheid om in hebsug allerhande onreinheid te bedrywe.

[20]  Maar julle het Messías nie so leer ken nie,

[21]  as julle ten minste van Hom gehoor het en in Hom onderrig is soos die waarheid is in Jahwehshua:

[22]  dat julle, wat die vorige lewenswandel betref die oue mens moet aflê wat deur die begeerlikhede van die verleiding te gronde gaan,

[23]  en dat julle vernuwe moet word in die gees van julle gemoed

[24]  en julle met die nuwe mens moet beklee wat na Elohym geskape is in ware geregtigheid en heiligheid.