²¹ And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

¹ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

²⁷ My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

⁴ I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

⁴⁵ The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

¹⁴ And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

²⁴ Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

²⁵ Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

²⁶ For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

²⁰ Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.

²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

³ The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.

⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

⁶ He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

¹⁷ So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

³ Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

⁴⁷ He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.