TSK · Matthew 6:33

God said to him,“Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies,

That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him,“Tell me what I should give you.”

Fear the LORD, you chosen people of his, for those who fear him lack nothing!

The LORD watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;

Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The LORD has provided us with justice.’

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

From that time Jesus began to preach this message:“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”

Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

Jesus said,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

¶ Salutation From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.