TSK · Isaiah 51:7

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

There is Hope for the Future“Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the LORD! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug!

“But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.