Proverbs 22 Cross References - ACV

¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold. ² The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all. ³ A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. ⁴ The reward of humility and the fear of LORD is riches and honor and life. ⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them. ⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it. ⁷ The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail. ⁹ He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease. ¹¹ He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend. ¹² The eyes of LORD preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man. ¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets. ¹⁴ The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it. ¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. ¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want. ¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee. ²⁰ Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge, ²¹ to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee? ²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them. ²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man, ²⁵ lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul. ²⁶ Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts. ²⁷ If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? ²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. ²⁹ See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

⁴⁷ And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

¹ A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, than the day of birth.

²⁰ Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and his entire house.

³ Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them-the women who labored with me in the good news-with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

³⁹ And all these, having been well reported through faith, did not receive the promise,

⁷ LORD makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

¹ Hear this, all ye peoples. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, ² both low and high, rich and poor together.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

¹³ The poor man and the oppressor meet together. LORD enlightens the eyes of them both.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily. ²⁰ But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores,

²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

² For if a man with a gold ring in bright clothing comes into your synagogue, and also a poor man in dirty clothing comes in, ³ and ye have regard for the man wearing the bright clothing, and say to him, Sit thou here well, and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here below my footstool, ⁴ then are ye not partial among yourselves, and become judges from evil thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

²⁰ He who feared the word of LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses. ²¹ And he who did not regard the word of LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding

²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

¹⁶ He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, ¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant. ¹⁸ But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.

¹² A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself. The simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹ He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors around thee. Hide thyself for a little moment until the indignation be passed over. ²¹ For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

¹⁵ When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand), ¹⁶ then let those in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Let the man on the housetop not go down to take things from his house. ¹⁸ And let the man in the field not return back to take his clothes.

² For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape. ⁴ But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief. ⁵ Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

¹⁸ So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.

⁷ By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

⁹ O fear LORD, ye his sanctified, for there is no want to those who fear him. ¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.

²¹ He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

⁶ And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of LORD is thy treasure.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

¹⁰ Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

¹³ know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which LORD your God has given you.

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

²⁶ With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary. ²⁷ For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

³ He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

¹⁵ Good understanding gives favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard.

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is made a highway.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

¹⁶ He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul. He who is careless of his ways shall die.

¹⁸ We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

²⁰ But ye beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons-

⁷ And thou shall teach them diligently to thy sons, and shall talk of them when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lie down, and when thou rise up.

²⁸ Therefore also I have granted him to LORD; as long as he lives he is granted to LORD. And he worshiped LORD there.

²⁶ And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with LORD, and also with men.

² And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray headed, and, behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth to this day. ³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. ⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons, ⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord.

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹ Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bondmen.

⁴ There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already. Neither is it in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

²³ A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly.

¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

² And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the creditor, so with the debtor, as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

⁶ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes-

¹ Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

⁴ Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

²⁵ But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

⁸ According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

³ For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous, that the righteous not put forth their hands to iniquity.

³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

⁴ For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou have broken as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

²⁹ Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken. For out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

³¹ For through the voice of LORD the Assyrian shall be dismayed. With his rod he will smite him.

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

¹³ Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye have reaped iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies. For thou trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

⁷ Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap. ⁸ Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

⁷ If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, ⁸ but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants. ⁹ Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be sin to thee. ¹⁰ Thou shall surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou give to him, because for this thing LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand to. ¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it ¹⁸ (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb); ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

¹ Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil. ² LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies. ³ LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.

⁹ He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

²⁵ The generous soul shall be made prosperous, and he who waters shall also be watered himself.

¹⁷ He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

¹³ He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

⁸ But a noble man devises noble things, and in noble things he shall continue.

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh? ⁸ Then thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily. And thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory of LORD shall be thy rearward. ⁹ Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly, ¹⁰ and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday. ¹¹ And LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones. And thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. ¹² And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

¹⁵ Is it not permitted for me to do what I want with my own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

³⁴ Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in, ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and fed thee, or thirsting, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ And when did we see thee weak, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.

²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad. ³⁶ Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful. ³⁷ And do not criticize, and ye will, no, not be criticized. And do not condemn, and ye will, no, not be condemned. Forgive, and ye will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and it will be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For with the same measure with which ye measure, it will be measured again to you.

¹³ But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

³⁵ I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

¹ And, brothers, we declare to you the grace of God that has been given in the congregations of Macedonia, ² that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity,

⁶ But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. ⁷ Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work, ⁹ as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age. ¹⁰ And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us.

¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share, ¹⁹ storing up for themselves a good foundation for that which is coming, so that they may take hold of the eternal life.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

¹⁶ But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

⁹ stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

¹ But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. ² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burnt? ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox goes up he shall break down their stone wall.

²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.

⁵ He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. ²¹ As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.

¹⁷ And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.

⁵ to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

¹³ But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou. ⁴⁰ Thou shall be over my house, and according to thy word all my people shall be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than thou. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. ⁴² And Pharaoh took his signet ring from off his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. ⁴³ And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried before him, Bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶ And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. ⁴⁸ And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. The food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same. ⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, for it was without number. ⁵⁰ And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. ⁵³ And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. ⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do. ⁵⁶ And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.

⁶ this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which LORD, the God of Israel, had given. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of LORD his God upon him. ⁷ And some of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. ⁸ And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. ⁹ For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. ¹⁰ For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances. ¹¹ Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of LORD, and of his statutes to Israel:

⁴ Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. ⁵ And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant has found favor in thy sight, that thou would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it. ⁶ And the king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall thy journey be? And when will thou return? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

² Thou are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever.

⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he shall minister to me.

³⁵ The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be to him who causes shame.

¹³ Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks right.

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him. ⁴⁷ The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou have been able to reveal this secret. ⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. ⁴⁹ And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon, but Daniel was in the gate of the king.

³⁰ Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

²⁰ And when he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou serve continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? ²¹ Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. ²² My God has sent his agent, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before thee, O king, I have done no harm. ²³ Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of harm was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

²² And all witnessed to him, and wondered at the words of grace that proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?

⁹ For the eyes of LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. In this thou have done foolishly, for from henceforth thou shall have wars.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹⁹ So they shall fear the name of LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. For he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of LORD drives. ²⁰ And he who redeems will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says LORD. ²¹ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, says LORD, from henceforth and forever.

¹⁶ And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. ¹⁷ And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens. ¹⁸ And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

³⁹ but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God.

⁹ But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man, ¹⁰ to whom they gave heed, from small to great, saying, This man is the great power of God. ¹¹ And they heeded him, because he fascinated them for a considerable time with the sorceries. ¹² But when they believed Philip preaching good news, the things about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were immersed, both men and women.

²³ And immediately an agent of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired. ²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to deviate the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ But Saul (the man is also Paul) having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having gazed on him, ¹⁰ said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, behold, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And immediately there fell on him gloom and darkness, and going around he sought hand-guides. ¹² Then the proconsul, who saw that which happened, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

⁸ And then the lawless will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and will neutralize at the appearance of his coming.

⁸ And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith. ⁹ But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

³ And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth. ⁴ These men are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, having stood before the Lord of the earth. ⁵ And if any man wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if any man wants to harm them, he must be killed this way. ⁶ These men have authority to shut the sky, so that it may not rain the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they may desire. ⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them, and he will overcome them and kill them. ⁸ And their corpses are in the thoroughfare of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. ⁹ And out of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations they see their corpses three and a half days. And they will not allow their corpses to be put in a sepulcher. ¹⁰ And those who dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and will celebrate, and will give gifts to each other, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who watched them.

¹⁴ And two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness to her place. So that she might be nourished there for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. ¹⁵ And the serpent cast water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might make her carried away by the flood. ¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was angry toward the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, those keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of Jesus.

³² And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ And we saw there the giants, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants. And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed. ¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. It wearies him to bring it again to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason.

¹⁹ And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grinding in the prison-house.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead; ¹⁹ none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

³ For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol, ⁶ so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know. ⁷ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel, ¹⁰ lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien, ¹¹ and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. ¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation. ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰ For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of LORD, and he makes level all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²⁴ to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue. ²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For the price of a harlot is as much as a piece of bread, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life. ²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? ²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.

⁵ that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words. ⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice, ⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding ⁸ passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house, ⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day. ¹⁵ Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love. ¹⁹ For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey. ²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon. ²¹ With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. ²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life. ²⁴ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths. ²⁶ For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. ²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

⁴ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

²⁴ He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. ¹⁴ Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest, yea, he will give delight to thy soul.

⁶ That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.

³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

¹⁰ For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights. ²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him. ²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

³ A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

²² He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

² And they covet fields, and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ³ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

⁹ Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. ¹⁰ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. ¹¹ But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. ¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts. ¹³ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts. ¹⁴ But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

³³ And if ye do good to those who do good to you, what credit is for you? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend to whom ye hope to receive, what credit is for you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

¹² And he also said to the man who invited him, When thou make a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor prosperous neighbors, lest they also invite thee in return, and a recompense be made to thee. ¹³ But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴ and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame.

¹³ For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days. ⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

³ to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and justice and equity,

² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then thou shall understand the fear of LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.

⁴ And he taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding, ² that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it. ³⁴ Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

¹² Apply thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

²⁵ I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

⁹ All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

³ Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things of David.

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

¹⁸ for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me. ¹⁹ Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent. Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

¹³ With my lips I have declared all the ordinances of thy mouth.

¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words to my taste, than honey to my mouth!

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹⁶² I rejoice at thy word, as he who finds great spoil.

¹⁷¹ Let my lips utter praise, for thou teach me thy statutes.

¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul,

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

⁶ Hear, for I will speak excellent things. And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

¹³ In the lips of him who has discernment wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

²¹ The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish, not so.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

¹³ My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste, ¹⁴ so the knowledge of wisdom is to thy soul. If thou have found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.

³⁸ He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

¹⁵ Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

⁸ Trust in him at all times, ye people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

⁵ Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, even LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.

⁴ Trust ye in LORD forever, for in LORD, even LORD, is an everlasting rock.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is.

²¹ men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God;

⁶ The words of LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times.

¹² I wrote for him the multitude of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word sure, to which ye do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar arises in your hearts. ²⁰ Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by the Holy Spirit.

³ it occurred to me also, having followed closely from the beginning all things accurately, to write to thee in order, eminent Theophilus, ⁴ so that thou might know the certainty of the declarations about which thou were instructed.

³¹ But these are written, so that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with meekness and fear.

¹³ I wrote these things to you, those who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

⁶ Thou shall not distort the justice due to thy poor in his case.

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

¹⁰ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

⁵ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

¹² LORD judge between me and thee, and LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

¹⁵ LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

³⁹ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

¹ Strive thou, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

¹ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

¹² I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.

¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.

¹ Woe to thee who destroys, and thou were not destroyed, and deal treacherously, and they did not deal treacherously with thee! When thou have ceased to destroy, thou shall be destroyed, and when thou have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong. LORD of hosts is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁶ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee. And I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁸ Because thou have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.

²² An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

¹⁴ Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what share have believers with non-believers? ¹⁶ And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me. ¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

³⁵ but mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works,

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

³³ Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

¹ My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger, ² thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth. ³ Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou have come into the hand of thy neighbor. Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor. ⁴ Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. ⁵ Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁵ He who is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

¹⁸ A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

¹³ Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge who is surety for a strange woman.

²⁶ If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, ²⁷ for that is his only covering. It is his garment for his skin. How shall he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

¹⁶ Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

¹⁴ Thou shall not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shall inherit, in the land that LORD thy God gives thee to possess it.

¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Truly.

² There are men who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

¹⁰ Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,

⁴⁶ And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁸ Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, who hear thy wisdom.

²⁸ And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. And Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.

⁴ He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

²¹ And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman. Thou were faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman. Thou were faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

¹¹ not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,

² preach the word, stand ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.