Proverbs 27 Cross References - ACV

¹ Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth. ² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips. ³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both. ⁴ Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy? ⁵ Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse. ⁷ The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. ⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place. ⁹ Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so too the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. ¹⁰ Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off. ¹¹ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. ¹² A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself. The simple pass on, and suffer for it. ¹³ Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge who is surety for a strange woman. ¹⁴ He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him. ¹⁵ A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. ¹⁶ He who would restrain her restrains the wind, and his right hand encounters oil. ¹⁷ Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. ¹⁸ He who keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit of it, and he who regards his master shall be honored. ¹⁹ As in water face is to face, so the heart of a man is to a man. ²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied. ²¹ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise. ²² Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him. ²³ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. ²⁴ For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations? ²⁵ The hay is carried, and the tender grass shows itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in. ²⁶ The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the cost of the field. ²⁷ And then will be goats' milk enough for thy food; for the food of thy household, and maintenance for thy maidens.

¹⁹ Moreover LORD will deliver Israel also with thee into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow thou and thy sons shall be with me. LORD will also deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

⁷ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, O that ye would hear his voice!

¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

² (for he says, At an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Behold, now is an acceptable time. Behold, now is a day of salvation),

¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain- ¹⁴ men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away- ¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. ¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to search out their own glory is grievous.

¹² For we dare not classify or compare ourselves to some of those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, do not understand.

¹⁸ For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.

¹¹ I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

²⁵ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, sons and sucklings, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

⁵ And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down, nor do him reverence, then Haman was full of wrath. ⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

¹² Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to be heated.

¹² Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.

¹⁴ And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.

¹¹ And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

² For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

³⁴ For jealousy is a man's fury, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁰ A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol. The flashes of it are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

¹⁸ For he knew that they delivered him up because of envy.

¹⁷ But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.

⁹ And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

⁵ But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. ²⁰ For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic. ¹⁶ For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.

⁵ Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

¹⁷ Thou shall not hate thy brother in thy heart. Thou shall surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

²³ He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

¹⁵ But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

²⁰ Those who sin, rebuke in the sight of all, so that the others may also have fear.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou are the man. Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to thee such and such things. ⁹ Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. ¹¹ Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. ¹² For thou did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. ¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die. ¹⁴ However, because by this deed thou have given great occasion to the enemies of LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to thee shall surely die. ¹⁵ And Nathan departed to his house. And LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. ¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he smote him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again, and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

⁵ Let a righteous man smite me, as a kindness. And let him reprove me, as oil upon the head. Let not my head refuse it. For even in their wickedness my prayer shall continue.

¹⁸ He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

²³ Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. ²⁴ He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. ²⁵ When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. ²⁶ Though his hatred cover itself with guile, his wickedness shall be openly shown before the assembly.

⁴⁸ Now the man who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I may kiss is he. Seize him. ⁴⁹ And straightaway having come to Jesus, he said, Hail, Rabbi, and kissed him much. ⁵⁰ And Jesus said to him, Friend, why are thou here? Then having come, they threw their hands on Jesus, and seized him.

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.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

⁴ And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? ⁵ We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, ⁶ but now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all except this manna to look upon. ⁷ And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance of it as the appearance of bdellium. ⁸ The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. ⁹ And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

¹⁸ And say thou to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, ²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

⁵ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

⁷ My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

¹⁶ And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him. ¹⁷ But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

⁹ There is one child here that has five barley loaves and two fishes, but what are these for so many?

¹⁶ And Cain went out from the presence of LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. ⁷ And the agent of LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. ⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, from where have thou come? And where are thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

⁵ And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the stronghold. Depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel, so I shall escape out of his hand. ² And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. ³ And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. ⁴ And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath, and he sought no more again for him. ⁵ And David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country that I may dwell there, for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? ⁶ Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day. ⁷ And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. ⁸ And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old as thou go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. ⁹ And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the apparel, and he returned, and came to Achish. ¹⁰ And Achish said, Against whom have ye made a raid today? And David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites. ¹¹ And David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has dwelt in the country of the Philistines. ¹² And Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.

⁹ And he came to a cave there, and lodged there. And, behold, the word of LORD came to him, and he said to him, What are thou doing here, Elijah?

¹¹ And I said, Should such a man as I flee? And who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. ¹² And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me, and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³ For this cause he was hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust. ¹⁵ And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them. ¹⁶ She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear,

¹⁶ The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

² As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

² For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

³ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of LORD. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of LORD.

¹⁰ Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, What is this that thou have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of LORD, because he had told them. ¹¹ Then they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. ¹² And he said to them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea, so shall the sea be calm to you. For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. ¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get themselves back to the land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. ¹⁴ Therefore they cried to LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, O LORD, have done as it pleased thee. ¹⁵ So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. ¹⁶ Then the men feared LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to LORD, and made vows. ¹⁷ And LORD prepared a great sea creature to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the sea creature three days and three nights.

²⁰ Each man, in the situation in which he was called, in this he should remain.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.

¹⁷ And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou do is not good. ¹⁸ Thou will surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee, for the thing is too heavy for thee. Thou are not able to perform it thyself alone. ¹⁹ Hearken now to my voice. I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee. Be thou for the people toward God, and bring thou the cases to God. ²⁰ And thou shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. ²¹ Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, ²² and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. ²³ If thou shall do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. ²⁴ So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

⁹ But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness with which by me they honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

¹⁶ And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the forest, and strengthened his hand in God. ¹⁷ And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee. And thou shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to thee. And that, Saul my father also knows.

² And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. ³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the law. ⁴ Arise, for the matter belongs to thee, and we are with thee. Be of good courage, and do it.

⁵ Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Thou have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over.

⁷ Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. ⁸ All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

² It is like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that came down upon the skirt of his garments,

¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

²³ A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!

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

²³ The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. ²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

³ Thine oils have a good fragrance. Thy name is oil poured forth. Therefore the virgins love thee.

⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

¹⁰ How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine, and the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

³ Mary therefore, after taking a pound of ointment of very costly genuine spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled of the aroma of the ointment.

¹⁵ And from there the brothers, who heard these things about us, came for a meeting with us as far as Appius Forum and The Three Taverns, whom, when Paul saw, having expressed thanks to God, he took courage.

¹⁵ Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing: ¹⁶ to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

²⁴ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

²⁸ For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet thou set thy servant among those who ate at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?

⁷ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

⁶ And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye to me to return an answer to this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If thou will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever. ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.

⁶ And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do ye give me to return an answer to this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever. ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.

²² Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, LORD look upon it, and require it.

²¹ For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁷ All the brothers of a poor man regard him inferior, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues with words, but they are gone.

⁸ But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, ⁹ thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said to thee, Thou are my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away. ¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

⁵ Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

¹² But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. ¹⁴ And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his who escape, and deliver not up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

³⁰ And having replied, Jesus said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And he encountered bandits, who also, having stripped him and having beat him, departed having left him being half dead. ³¹ And by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³² And likewise also a Levite who happened upon the place, having come, and having looked, passed by on the other side. ³³ But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to him, and when he saw him, felt compassion. ³⁴ And having come, he wrapped up his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. And having set him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵ And on the morrow when departing, after taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatever thou might spend more, I will repay thee at my return. ³⁶ Which therefore, of these three, appears to thee to have become neighbor to the man who fell among the bandits? ³⁷ And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.

¹² And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

²³ And having summoned a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen at the third hour of the night. ²⁴ And provide beasts, so that after mounting Paul, they may bring him safely to Felix the governor, ²⁵ after writing a letter containing this form: ²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the eminent governor Felix, greeting. ²⁷ This man who was seized by the Jews, and was going to be killed by them, having stood by with the soldiers, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman. ²⁸ And wanting to know for what reason they accused him, I brought him down to their council, ²⁹ whom I found accusing about issues of their law, having not one accusation worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ And when it was reported to me of a plot going to be against the man by the Jews, I immediately sent him to thee, also having commanded the accusers to speak before thee the things against him. Be strong. ³¹ Indeed therefore, the soldiers, according to that which was precisely arranged for them, having taken Paul, they brought him through the night to Antipatris. ³² But on the morrow they returned to the fort, having allowed the horsemen to depart with him, ³³ who, after coming to Caesarea and having delivered the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him. ³⁴ And the governor having read it, and having questioned from what province he was, and having found out that he was from Cilicia, ³⁵ he said, I will hear thee when thine accusers also will arrive. And he commanded him to be kept in the Praetorium of Herod.

⁴² So I shall have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in thy word.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth. ⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

²⁰ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine. ¹⁶ Yea, my heart will rejoice when thy lips speak right things.

²⁴ The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him. ²⁵ Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.

³ He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his substance.

¹⁸ And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. ²⁰ Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. ²¹ For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

⁷ For we have much joy and encouragement in thy love, because the bowels of the sanctified have been refreshed by thee, brother.

¹⁹ I Paul write with my hand, I will repay, so that I may not say to thee that thou owe me in return even thyself. ²⁰ Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

⁴ I rejoice exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father.

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.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by. ² I will cry to God Most High, to God who performs for me. ³ He will send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

¹⁰ The name of LORD is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it, and is safe.

³ A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?

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.

⁷ But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire. ¹¹ Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties, ¹² anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot? ¹³ But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells. ¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, anticipating these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, without spot and blameless.

²⁶ If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

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.

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

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?

² And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. And it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city are thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. ³ And Absalom said to him, See, thy matters are good and right, but there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. ⁴ Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or case might come to me, and I would do for him justice! ⁵ And it was so, that, when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. ⁶ And on this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. ⁷ And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to LORD, in Hebron.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, Live, O king. Live, O king. ¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why did thou not go with thy friend? ¹⁸ And Hushai said to Absalom, No, but whom LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will abide. ¹⁹ And again, whom should I serve? Is it not in the presence of his son? As I have served in thy father's presence, so I will be in thy presence.

⁷ And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good. ⁸ Hushai said moreover, Thou know thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field. And thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. ⁹ Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place. And it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom. ¹⁰ And even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt, for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men. ¹¹ But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that thou go to battle in thine own person. ¹² So we shall come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one. ¹³ Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river until there be not one small stone found there.

⁶ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

¹³ And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak thou good.

² Thus speaks LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. ³ Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of LORD's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon. ⁴ And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

²² And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man. 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.

¹⁹ The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

²⁴ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

¹⁸ Whoever he is who shall rebel against thy commandment, and shall not hearken to thy words in all that thou command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.

²⁴ And they said to Joshua, Truly LORD has delivered into our hands all the land, and moreover all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.

⁹ And they said to the messengers who came, Thus ye shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. ¹⁰ Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and ye shall do with us all that seems good to you.

²⁰ but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. ²¹ Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

¹⁶ And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the forest, and strengthened his hand in God.

¹¹ And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shall help me, but if the sons of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee. ¹² Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God. And LORD do that which seems good to him.

³ Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

⁹ Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so too the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ⁴ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.

³ for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.

⁸ Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good news according to the power of God.

¹² Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

³ Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

⁹ within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound. ¹⁰ Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. ¹¹ Faithful is the saying, For if we die together, we will also live together. ¹² If we endure, we will also reign together. If we renounce him, that man will also renounce us. ¹³ If we are unfaithful, that man remains faithful. He cannot renounce himself.

²⁴ And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

² Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

¹² Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you. ¹³ But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

² And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh. ³ And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

² And LORD was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that LORD was with him, and that LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. ⁴ And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him. And he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. ⁵ And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of LORD was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.

²² And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it. ²³ The keeper of the prison did not look to anything that was under his hand, because LORD was with him, and that which he did, LORD made it prosper.

¹³ And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister, and Moses went up onto the mount of God.

³⁰ Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

¹¹ But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of LORD, that we may inquire of LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.

² And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden, and she waited on Naaman's wife. ³ And she said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.

²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where did thou come, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went nowhere.

²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cling to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.

² A servant who deals wisely shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

²⁹ See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

¹² My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. Thou, O Solomon, shall have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of it, two hundred.

²⁵ Behold, I have foretold it to you.

⁴⁶ Blessed is that bondman, whom his lord when he comes will find so doing.

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. ²² And also having come, the man who received the two talents said, Lord, thou delivered two talents to me, lo, I have gained two other talents besides them.

⁴³ But it is not so among you. Instead, whoever may want to become great among you, will be your helper,

³⁷ Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.

⁴³ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord when he comes will find so doing. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over the things being possessed by him.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Well, thou good bondman. Because thou became faithful in the least, be thou having authority over ten cities.

²⁶ If any man serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my helper will also be. And if any man serves me, the Father will honor him.

⁷ And when the agent speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his housemen, and a devout soldier of those who personally served him,

⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

⁷ Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

¹³ Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

²² Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

⁶ The farmer who labors must be the first to partake of the fruits.

¹⁸ Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.

²¹ For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

¹⁵ he who fashions the hearts of them all, who considers all their works.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

²² But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this resembles a man observing his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ For he observes himself, and goes away, and straightaway forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵ But he who stooped to look into the perfect law, the one of liberty, and who remained, this man, who did not become a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this man will be blessed in his doing.

⁶ Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

¹¹ Sheol and Abaddon are before LORD. How much more then the hearts of the sons of men!

⁵ Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

¹⁵ The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that do not say, Enough: ¹⁶ Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that does not say, Enough.

⁸ All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

⁸ There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, he says, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a great travail.

¹⁰ He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. ¹¹ When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding of them with his eyes?

⁷ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

⁵ Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) He is a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.

¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

⁷ And the women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. ⁸ And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him, and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands, and what can he have more but the kingdom?

¹⁵ And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. ¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.

³⁰ Then the rulers of the Philistines went forth, and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was very precious.

²⁵ Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

⁶ And on this manner Absalom did to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. ⁷ And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to LORD, in Hebron. ⁸ For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve LORD. ⁹ And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. ¹⁰ But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron. ¹¹ And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem who were invited, and went in their simplicity. And they did not know anything. ¹² And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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

¹⁰ For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

³ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD is my God.

³ And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. And they shall offer to LORD offerings in righteousness.

⁷ so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

¹² Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you.

³⁰ And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

⁵ And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled. And the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

²² And in the time of his distress he trespassed yet more against LORD, this same king Ahaz. ²³ For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which smote him. And he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, therefore I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

³⁵ They have stricken me, thou shall say, and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

⁵ Why will ye still be stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

³ O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, ¹⁶ As for the word that thou have spoken to us in the name of LORD, we will not hearken to thee.

¹⁰ And the fifth agent poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from the anguish. ¹¹ And they blasphemed the God of heaven from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with thee, thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and I have not eaten the rams of thy flocks. ³⁹ I did not bring to thee that which was torn by beasts; I bore the loss of it, of my hand thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

¹³ And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

²³ And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

⁴⁶ And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, even all the words of this law.

²⁸ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the mischief of thy heart, for thou have come down that thou might see the battle.

²⁹ And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai. ³⁰ And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. ³¹ All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.

¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle, also in the lowland and in the plain. And he had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved husbandry.

³² Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

²² therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. ²³ And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. ²⁴ And I, LORD, will be their God, and my servant David ruler among them. I, LORD, have spoken it.

³¹ And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the lord LORD.

³ The gatekeeper opens to this man. And the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

¹⁵ So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He says to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do thou love me? And he said to him, Lord, thou know all things. Thou know that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

² Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

¹⁶ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.

³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

¹⁷ Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment, ¹⁸ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

¹⁰ but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, ⁹ lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

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