Bible verses about "value" | CLV

¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, who shall sojourn in Your tent? Who shall tabernacle on Your holy mountain? ² He who is walking flawlessly and effecting righteousness; He who is speaking truth in his heart; ³ He has not vilified with his tongue; He has done no evil to his associate And has borne no reproach against the one near him. ⁴ Despised in his eyes is the reprobate, Yet he glorifies those fearing Yahweh. He has sworn to his associate and shall not change." ⁵ He has neither lent his money at interest Nor taken a bribe against the innocent. He who is doing these things shall not slip for the eon.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:" ² To know wisdom and discipline, To comprehend sayings of understanding, ³ To procure the discipline to act intelligently In justice and judgment and equities, ⁴ To give to the simple, prudence, To youth, knowledge and foresight--" ⁵ The wise one may also hear and add to his education, And the man of understanding may acquire skills--" ⁶ To understand proverb and puzzle, The words of the wise and their enigmas." ⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; The foolish despise wisdom and discipline. ⁸ Hear, my son, the admonition of your father, And do not abandon the law of your mother." ⁹ For they are a wreath of grace for your head, And necklaces for your throat." ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, do not comply with them;" ¹¹ If they say, Do walk with us, Let us wait in ambush for blood, Let us lurk gratuitously for the innocent, ¹² Like the unseen, we shall swallow them up alive, And robust like those descending to a crypt, ¹³ All precious wealth shall we find, We shall fill our houses with loot, ¹⁴ Let your lot be cast in our midst, There shall be one purse for us all, ¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them; Withhold your foot from their track." ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed blood." ¹⁷ For gratuitously is the net tossed Before the eyes of all the possessors of wings. ¹⁸ Yet they themselves wait in ambush for their own blood; They lurk for their own souls. ¹⁹ Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; It takes away the soul of its possessors. ²⁰ Wisdom is jubilating in the street; In the squares she is giving forth her voice. ²¹ At the top of the walls she is calling; At the portals of the gates in the city she is speaking her words: ²² How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge? ²³ May you turn back at my correction; Behold, let me utter what is in my spirit to you; Let me make known my words to you." ²⁴ Because I called, and you refused, I stretched out my hand, and no one attended, ²⁵ And you renounced all my counsel, And you would not heed my reproof, ²⁶ Indeed, I myself shall ridicule you in your calamity; I shall deride when alarm comes upon you, ²⁷ When alarm comes upon you like a tumult, And calamity, it arrives upon you like a sweeping whirlwind, When distress and constraint come upon you." ²⁸ Then they shall call me, yet I shall not answer; They shall seek me early, yet shall not find me." ²⁹ Because they hated knowledge And would not choose the fear of Yahweh, ³⁰ They would not heed my counsel, They spurned all my correction, ³¹ Thus they shall eat of the fruit of their way, And they shall be surfeited with the results of their counsels." ³² For the instability of the simple, it shall kill them, And the carelessness of the stupid, it shall destroy them." ³³ Yet whoever is hearkening to me shall tabernacle in trust, And he will be tranquil, away from alarm of peril."

⁸ For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present,

¹⁸ being aware that not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, were you ransomed from your vain behavior, handed down by tradition from the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a flawless and unspotted lamb,

⁴¹ And Jesus, being seated facing the treasury, beheld how the throng is casting the coppers into the treasury. And many rich cast in much." ⁴² And one woman, a poor widow, coming, cast in two mites, which is a quadrans." ⁴³ And, calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that this poor widow casts in more than all who are casting into the treasury." ⁴⁴ For all cast out of their superfluity, yet she, out of her want, cast in all, as much as she had - her whole livelihood."

³ nothing according with faction, nor yet according with vainglory - but with humility, deeming one another superior to one's self,

¹⁴ I shall acclaim You, for You are fearfully distinguished; Marvelous are Your works. You have known my soul very thoroughly;"

³⁵ All I intimate to you, that, thus toiling, you must be supporting the infirm. Besides, remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'Happy is it to give rather than to get.'"

⁸ for bodily exercise is beneficial for a few things, yet devoutness is beneficial for all, having promise for the life which now is, and that which is impending."

³¹ Then do not fear! Of more consequence than many sparrows are you.