Proverbs 14 Cross References - CAB

¹ Wise women build houses, but a foolish one digs hers down with her hands. ² He that walks uprightly fears the Lord, but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonored. ³ Out of the mouth of fools comes a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them. ⁴ Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean, but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent. ⁵ A faithful witness does not lie, but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods. ⁶ You shall seek wisdom with bad men, and shall not find it, but discretion is easily available with the prudent. ⁷ All things are adverse to a foolish man, but wise lips are the weapons of discretion. ⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray. ⁹ The houses of transgressors will need purification, but the houses of the just are acceptable. ¹⁰ If a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride. ¹¹ The houses of ungodly men shall be utterly destroyed, but the tabernacles of them that walk uprightly shall stand. ¹² There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell. ¹³ Grief mingles not with mirth, and joy in the end comes to grief. ¹⁴ A stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man with his own thoughts. ¹⁵ The simple believes every word, but the sensible man considers his steps. ¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor. ¹⁷ A passionate man acts inconsiderately, but a sensible man bears up under many things. ¹⁸ Fools shall have mischief for their portion, but the prudent shall quickly take hold of understanding. ¹⁹ Evil men shall fall before the good, and the ungodly shall attend at the gates of the righteous. ²⁰ Friends will hate poor friends, but the friends of the rich are many. ²¹ He that dishonors the needy, sins, but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed. ²² They that go astray devise evils, but the good devise mercy and truth. The framers of evil do not understand mercy and truth, but compassion and faithfulness are with the framers of good. ²³ With everyone who is careful there is abundance, but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want. ²⁴ A prudent man is the crown of the wise, but the occupation of fools is evil. ²⁵ A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil, but a deceitful man kindles falsehoods. ²⁶ In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence, and he leaves his children a support. ²⁷ The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life, and it causes men to turn aside from the snare of death. ²⁸ In a populous nation is the glory of a king, but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince. ²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom, but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish. ³⁰ A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart, but passion is a corruption to the bones. ³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker, but he that honors Him has pity upon the poor. ³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just. ³³ There is wisdom in the good heart of a man, but in the heart of fools it is not discerned. ³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sins, however, diminish them. ³⁵ An understanding servant is acceptable to a king, and by his good behavior he removes disgrace.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses; and the elders said, The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Leah, who both together built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name to you in Bethlehem.

³¹ And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, but he took Jezabel the daughter of Ethebaal king of the Sidonians for a wife; and he went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

²⁴ Him that is dead of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dies in the field of Ahab shall the birds of the sky eat. ²⁵ But Ahab did wickedly, in that he sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezebel led him astray.

¹ And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, and she destroyed all the royal heirs.

¹³ A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel. ¹⁴ She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets, ¹⁵ calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;

¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner on the housetop, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

³ A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding. ⁴ By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth.

¹⁰ Who shall find a virtuous woman? For such a one is more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her; such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils. ¹² For she employs all her living for her husband's good. ¹³ Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like a ship trading from a distance — so she procures her livelihood. ¹⁵ And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens. ¹⁶ She views a farm, and buys it; and with the fruit of her hands she plants and a possession. ¹⁷ She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work. ¹⁸ And she finds by experience that working is good, and her lamp does not go out all night. ¹⁹ She reaches forth her arms to needful works, and applies her hands to the spindle. ²⁰ And she opens her hands to the needy, and reaches out fruit to the poor. ²¹ Her husband is not anxious about those at home when he tarries anywhere abroad: for all her household are clothed. ²² She makes for her husband clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet. ²³ And her husband becomes a distinguished person in the gates, when he sits in council with the old inhabitants of the land. ²⁴ She makes fine linens, and sells sashes to the Canaanites; she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue. ²⁵ She puts on strength and honor, and rejoices in the last days. ²⁶ But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law. ²⁷ The ways of her household are careful, and she eats not the bread of idleness. ²⁸ And her kindness to them sets up her children for them, and they grow rich, and her husband praises her. ²⁹ Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly, but you have exceeded, you have surpassed all. ³⁰ Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with Your servant David my father according as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You have kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as it is this day.

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

²⁸ And He said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

²¹ The harmless and upright joined themselves to me; for I waited for You, O Lord.

¹ Alleluia. Blessed is the man that fears the Lord; he will delight greatly in His commandments.

³ Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹² A man void of understanding sneers at his fellow citizens, but a sensible man is quiet.

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evil, and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He that receives instruction shall be in prosperity, and he that regards reproofs shall be made wise. He that keeps his ways preserves his own soul, and he that loves his life will spare his mouth.

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⁶ A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.

¹³ Hear the end of the matter, the sum: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is man's all.

⁵ My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave it to him that he might reverently fear Me, and that he might be awe struck at My name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before Me directing his way in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

¹⁶ He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

³¹ Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified, and going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, were multiplying.

²² And they said, "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, having a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was given a revelation by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you."

³⁵ But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵ But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,

³ Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares His own designs.

²¹ He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.

³ Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words;

¹⁸ Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of instruction by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day ² your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.

⁴ and He has delivered my soul from the midst of the lion's whelps; I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶ The words of ungodly men are crafty, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

⁶ The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death.

²⁴ A bold and self-willed and insolent man is called a pest, and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.

⁸ He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles, and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. ^(22:8A) God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.

²⁵ An unbelieving man judges rashly, but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.

²⁰ And concerning its ten horns that were on its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up some of the former ones, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his appearance was greater than the others.

⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small member and it boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

¹⁸ For when they speak haughty words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

¹⁰ Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those that dwell upon the earth.

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

⁵ After these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. ⁶ And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, who were dressed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden belts.

²³ The righteous shall spend many years in wealth, but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly.

⁶ And your teeth shall be idle in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes." Is it oxen God is concerned about? ¹⁰ Or does He say this altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, for it is written, that he that plows should plow in hope, and he that threshes, in hope should partake of his hope. ¹¹ If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

¹⁶ You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹ You shall not receive a false report. You shall not agree with the unjust to become an unjust witness.

¹³ And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, You have 6blasphemed God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, and he died.

¹² And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and the thing shall prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it and the king of Syria into your hands. ¹³ And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, all the prophets speak good things with one mouth concerning the king; let now your words be like the words of one of them, and speak good things. ¹⁴ And Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹⁹ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brothers.

¹⁷ A righteous man declares the open truth, but an unjust witness is deceitful.

⁵ A righteous man hates an unjust word, but an ungodly man is ashamed, and will have no confidence.

²⁵ A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil, but a deceitful man kindles falsehoods.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.

¹⁸ Unveil my eyes, and I shall perceive the wondrous things of Your law.

⁹⁸ You have made me wiser than my enemies in Your commandment; for it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out Your commandments.

⁹ They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

²⁴ The countenance of a wise man is sensible, but the eyes of a fool go to the ends of the earth.

² A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.

¹² I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

²⁰ For He has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Yes, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. ²⁷ All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone fully know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

¹¹ He answered and said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

²¹ Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles. ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature, ²⁷ and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error. ²⁸ And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

³¹ but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to the law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled the stone of stumbling.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";

² And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

³ knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue as from the beginning of creation." ⁵ For this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth, consisting out of water and through water,

⁶ Forsake folly, that you may reign forever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

²⁰ If you walk with wise men you shall be wise, but he that walks with fools shall be known.

²⁷ A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs.

¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, who is a fornicator, or covetous person, or an idolater, or abusive person, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a person.

¹¹ And have no partnership with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all that act accordingly have a good understanding; His praise endures forever and ever.

⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes.

³⁴ Instruct me, and I will search out Your law, and will keep it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Guide me in the path of Your commandments; for I have delighted in it.

⁷³ Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; instruct me, that I may learn Your commandments.

⁸ Cause me to hear Your mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in You; make known to me, O Lord, the way in which I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to You.

⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity and every good path.

²⁰ I walk in ways of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment;

¹⁸ An ungodly man performs unrighteous works, but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given you, the sheep of your glory?

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry." ' ²⁰ But God said to him, 'You fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

²² that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

⁹ On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; ¹⁰ that you should walk worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit and increasing in the full knowledge of God;

¹³ But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

¹³ Is there anyone wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his works are in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

⁷ What man is like Job, drinking scorning like water? ⁸ Saying, I have not sinned, nor committed ungodliness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity, to go with the ungodly. ⁹ For you should not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.

²² So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

⁴ so shall you find favor; and provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favor from the Lord.

²³ A fool does mischief in sport, but wisdom brings forth prudence for a man.

² He that has found favor with the Lord is made better, but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

¹⁵ Sound discretion gives favor, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding, but the ways of scorners lead to destruction.

¹⁸ As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown; ¹⁹ so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.

²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he that serves Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁸ how they told you that in the last time there would be mockers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts.

²¹ And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear him; therefore has this affliction come upon us.

¹⁰ And she was very much grieved in her spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

²⁷ And she came to Elisha to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisha said, Let her alone, for her soul is much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told it to me.

² Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together! ³ And surely they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain. ⁴ For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth; I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ For He allows me not to take breath, but He has filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon Him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them that fear Him; and His covenant is to manifest truth to them.

¹³ When the heart rejoices, the countenance is cheerful, but when it is in sorrow, the countenance is sad.

¹⁴ A wise servant calms a man's anger, but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

¹⁴ And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

³³ And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be greatly amazed, and deeply depressed. ³⁴ Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and watch."

²⁷ "Now My soul has been troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this reason I came to this hour.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make Our home with him.

⁷ and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

⁸ Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to him some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except he who receives it." '

⁶ If you are pure and true, He will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.

¹⁵ If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

¹⁴ And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king. ¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.

²¹ These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

²⁶ And let all darkness wait for him: an unfanned fire shall consume him, and let a stranger plague his house. ²⁷ And let the heavens reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him. ²⁸ Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

²⁸ so that you will say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

¹³ This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty. ¹⁴ And if their children are many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg. ¹⁵ And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows. ¹⁶ Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay, ¹⁷ all these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess His wealth. ¹⁸ And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is no more. ²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he flees desperately from out of His hand. ²³ He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

² His seed shall be mighty in the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures forevermore.

³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table.

³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly, but the habitations of the just are blessed.

²⁸ He that trusts in wealth shall fall, but he that helps righteous men shall rise.

⁷ When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away, but the houses of the just remain.

¹² A righteous man understands the hearts of the ungodly, and despises the ungodly for their wickedness.

²⁰ A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise, but foolish men will swallow it up.

¹¹ and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed. ¹² And your old waste desert places shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shall be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths between to be in peace.

⁴ And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by My name, and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And its fall was great."

¹⁵ The ways of fools are right in their own eyes, but a wise man heeds counsel.

²⁵ There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

¹³ "Enter in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in through it. ¹⁴ How narrow the gate, and confined the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it!

²⁴ Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

²¹ So what fruit did you have then of which things you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

³ For if anyone thinks that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

²² But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

⁴ but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.

² I said to laughter — Madness! And to mirth, Why do you do this?

¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor. ¹¹ And I looked on all my works which my hands had done, and on my labor which I labored to perform, and behold, all was vanity and grasping for the wind, and there is no advantage under the sun.

⁵ It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ⁶ As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools. This is also vanity.

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

⁹ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.

⁷ In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.' ⁸ "On account of this her plagues will come in one day--death, sorrow, and famine. And she shall be burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who has judged her.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness. ³² For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.

¹⁴ The soul of a man shall be filled with good from the fruits of his mouth, and the recompense of his lips shall be given to him.

¹⁰ If a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.

¹⁹ Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me has been bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

⁵ Why have My people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

⁵ Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.

³¹ So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.

¹⁶ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

⁶ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water which I shall give him will by no means ever thirst again. But the water which I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life."

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

⁴ But let each person examine his own work, and then he will have boasting in himself alone, and not in the other.

⁸ For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.

¹² Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

²⁰ For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the saying of the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "A sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."

²⁶ Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways rightly.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray.

³ An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.

¹² A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself, but fools pass on, and will be punished.

¹³ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time of evils.

⁷ who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

¹⁸ For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I rejoice on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent to what is evil.

¹⁴ that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁹ And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep your own.

¹⁸ And he said to them on the third day, Do this, and you shall live, for I fear God.

² And Jezebel sent to Elijah, and said, If you are Elijah and I am Jezebel, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make your life by this time tomorrow as the life of one of them!

¹⁰ And the son of Hadad sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for foxes to all the people, even my infantry. ¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.

¹⁸ And he said to them, If they come forth peaceably, take them alive; and if they come forth to war, take them alive;

¹⁵ But as for the former acts of extortion in which those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty shekels for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them exercised authority over the people; but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his: ²² then let my shoulder start from the blade bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of His burden.

¹⁴ Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with Your fear; for I am afraid of Your judgments.

⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

²² And he followed her, being gently led on, as that of an ox led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a deer shot in the liver with an arrow:

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¹⁴ Blessed is the man who religiously fears always, but the hard of heart shall fall into mischief.

⁹ A wise man shall judge nations, but a worthless man being angry laughs and does not fear.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, and the end of his talk mischievous madness.

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent and laid hold of John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her. ¹⁸ For John would say to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." ¹⁹ Therefore Herodias held a grudge against him and was desiring to kill him, but she was not able;

²⁴ And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist!" ²⁵ Immediately she came in with haste to the king and she requested, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

⁴⁰ Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"

²² Abstain from every form of evil.

⁶ and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

⁵ And the king said, Who is this that has dared to do this thing? ⁶ And Esther said, the adversary is Haman, this wicked man. Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.

¹⁸ a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, are hateful to God.

¹⁶ A fool declares his wrath the same day, but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

²⁹ A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom, but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

¹⁸ A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a rising one. ^(15:18A) A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels, but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.

³² A man slow to anger is better than a strong man, and he that governs his temper better than he that takes a city.

²⁴ Be not companion to a furious man, neither lodge with a passionate man,

²² A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.

⁹ Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

²⁶ For among My people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them. ²⁷ As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich. ²⁸ They have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow. ²⁹ Shall I not punish for these things? Says the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory, but the ungodly have exalted their own dishonor.

⁷ (TEXT OMITTED) ⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you; ⁹ that it may give unto your head a crown of grace, and may cover you with a crown of delight.

²⁹ He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise man. ³⁰ Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life, but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

¹⁹ O Lord, You are my strength and my help, and my refuge in days of evil. To You the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, How worthless were the idols which our fathers procured for themselves, and there is no help in them.

¹⁷ For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. And so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

³ And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars forever and ever.

²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' ³¹ "So that you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets. ³² And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

⁸ Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.

¹⁸ knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

⁶ Now Joseph was ruler over the land; and he sold to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph, having come, bowed down to him, with their faces to the ground.

²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is still alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God — and they bowed, and prostrated themselves.

⁸ And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray for me to the Lord, and let Him take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will send them away, and they shall sacrifice to the Lord.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Pray then for me to the Lord, and let Him cause the thundering of God to cease, and the hail and the fire, and I will send you forth and you shall remain no longer.

⁸ And all these your servants shall come down to me, and reverence me, saying, Go forth, you and all the people over whom you presided, and afterwards I will go forth.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass that he that survives in your house will come and bow down before him for a little piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of your priest's offices to eat bread.

¹² And Jehoshaphat said, He has the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and the king of Edom went down to him.

⁷ And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. And Haman began to plead with the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case. ⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen. And the king said, Will you even force my wife in my house? And when Haman heard it, his countenance changed.

¹⁴ They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

²⁹ He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause: He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness. ¹⁰ And she that is my enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord your God? My eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

³ And you shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.

³⁹ And coming, the appealed to them, and bringing them out, and asked them to depart from the city.

⁹ Behold, I will give those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews and are not, but they are lying—behold, I will compel them to come and bow down at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you.

² And everyone in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai did not bow down to him.

¹⁰ And having gone into his own house, he called his friends, and his wife Zeresh. ¹¹ And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

²¹ But you also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wounds you are afraid. ²² What? Have I made any demand of you? Or do I ask for strength from you, ²³ to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

¹³ My brothers have stood far from me; they have recognized strangers rather than me: and my friends have become pitiless. ¹⁴ My relatives have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name have forgotten me.

¹⁰ And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

¹⁵ The wealth of rich men is a strong city, but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.

⁴ Wealth acquires many friends, but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

⁶ Many court the favor of kings, but every bad man becomes a reproach to another man. ⁷ Everyone who hates his poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief, and he that used provoking words shall not escape.

¹³ And if I also despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also He should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they formed too, as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb.

⁵ If you have sinned, what will you do? ⁶ And if you have also transgressed much, what can you perform?

²⁴ For He has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away His face from Me; but when I cried to Him, He heard Me.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. Blessed is the man who thinks on the poor and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

⁵ The good man is he that pities and lends; he will direct his affairs with judgment.

⁹ He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

²⁴ There are some who scatter their own, and make it more, and there are some also who gather, yet have less. ²⁵ Every sincere soul is blessed, but a passionate man is not graceful.

³¹ He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker, but he that honors Him has pity upon the poor.

⁵ He that laughs at the poor provokes Him that made him, and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless; but he that has compassion shall find mercy.

³ When an ungodly man comes into a depth of evils, he despises them; but dishonor and reproach come upon him.

¹⁷ He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will recompense to him according to his gift.

²⁷ He that gives to the poor shall not be in need, but he that turns away his eye from him shall be in great distress.

¹ Send forth your bread upon the face of the water, for you shall find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

⁷ Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed. ⁸ Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth; and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall surround you. ⁹ Then shall you cry, and God shall hearken to you; while you are yet speaking He will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from you the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech; ¹⁰ and if you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness shall be as noon day;

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel please you, and atone for your sins by alms, and your iniquities by compassion on the poor; perhaps God will be longsuffering toward your trespasses.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.' ³⁷ "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? ³⁸ When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? ³⁹ Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' ⁴⁰ "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.' ⁴¹ "Then He will also say to those on the left, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels: ⁴² for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.' ⁴⁴ "Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and we did not minister to You?' ⁴⁵ "Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me.' ⁴⁶ "And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

³⁰ Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your belongings, do not ask for them back. ³¹ And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. ³² But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive it back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may receive the same amount back. ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping to receive nothing back; and your reward shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. ³⁶ Therefore be compassionate, just as your Father also is compassionate.

⁹ Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

³⁵ By all things I have shown you, that thus laboring it is necessary to help those being weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "

¹² lest you become dull, but become imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into court?

¹⁴ What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is that kind of faith able to save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the necessary things of the body, what is the benefit?

¹⁷ But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And in this we know that we are from the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. ²⁰ Because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. ²² And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

²⁷ and said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not allowed His righteousness to fail, nor His truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.

⁸ But the Lord said to my father David, Whereas it came into your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it came into your heart.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek His covenant and His testimonies.

⁷ He shall endure forever before God. Which of them shall seek out His mercy and truth?

²⁹ Do not devise evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you.

¹⁷ A passionate man acts inconsiderately, but a sensible man bears up under many things.

²² Mercy is a fruit to a man, and a poor man is better than a rich liar.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment. ⁸ But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel shall stand.

⁷ Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ He that winks with his eyes deceitfully procures griefs for men, but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.

²⁴ The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule, but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

¹⁹ He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

³ For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.

²⁷ Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give to you; for upon Him God the Father has set His seal."

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat! ¹¹ For we hear that some are walking among you in a disorderly way, not working at all, but being busybodies. ¹² And to such people we command and urge by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

¹³ And besides they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle but also gossipy and busybodies, speaking things which are not proper.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. ¹¹ But we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,

¹⁰ When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers. ¹¹ And their tombs are their houses forever, even their tabernacles to all generations; they have called their lands after their own names. ¹² And man being in honor, understands not; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is likened unto them. ¹³ This their way is an offense to them; yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause.

²² Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will still in no way remove his folly from him.

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun. ¹² For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver, and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

⁶ They shall be delivered up to the law; our salvation is our treasure; there is wisdom and knowledge and godliness toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

⁹ And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by the mammon of unrighteousness, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

¹⁹ "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day. ²⁰ But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and would lick his sores. ²² And it came to pass that the beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ Then he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am suffering in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

⁵ A faithful witness does not lie, but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.

²¹ solemnly bearing witness to both Jews and to Greeks, the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

²⁶ Therefore I testify to you this very day, that I am innocent of all blood. ²⁷ For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

¹⁶ But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will yet reveal to you, ¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.' ¹⁹ "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

¹ But the Spirit explicitly says, that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been seared with a hot iron as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

³ knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed; but God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you yesterday.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear Him, and will deliver them. ⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who hopes in Him. ⁹ Fear the Lord, all you His saints; for there is no lack to them that fear Him. ¹⁰ The rich have become poor and hungry; but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not lack any good thing. Pause. ¹¹ Come, you children, hear me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁶ For he shall not be moved forever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. ⁷ He shall not be afraid of any evil report; his heart is ready to trust in the Lord. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see his desire upon his enemies.

¹³ He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great. ¹⁴ May the Lord add blessings to you and to your children.

⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil. ⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and He shall establish your foot, that you not be moved.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.

²³ The fear of the Lord is life to a man; and he shall lodge without fear in places where knowledge is not seen.

¹⁸ It is well for you to hold fast by this; also by this defile not your hand; for to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord has passed away. ²¹ For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from His holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

¹¹ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before You in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.

³⁹ And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

¹⁶ Thus they spoke, those that feared the Lord, everyone to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and He wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced His name. ¹⁷ And they shall be Mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him. ¹⁸ Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves Him not.

² But to you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in His wings: and you shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul, ¹¹ then good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you; ¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³ Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; ¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants.

¹⁴ The law of the wise is fountain of life, but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.

⁵ Thistles and snares are in perverse ways, but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them.

²⁶ And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death, the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands. He that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

⁶ And He said to me, " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give from the spring of the water of life freely to him that is thirsty.

¹² But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong. And the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel.

²² And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

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²⁷ And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them. And Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.

³² In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Hazael conquered them in every coast of Israel; ³³ from the Jordan eastward all the land of Gilead belonging to the Gadites, of Gad and that of Reuben, and of Manasseh, from Aroer, which is on the brink of the Brook of Arnon, and Gilead and Bashan.

⁷ Whereas there was not left any army to Jehoahaz, except fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.

³ And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

¹¹ A merciful man is long suffering, and his triumph overtakes transgressors.

²⁴ Be not companion to a furious man, neither lodge with a passionate man, ²⁵ lest you learn of his ways, and ensnare your soul.

⁸ Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

²⁸ As a city whose walls are broken down, and which is unfortified, so is a man who does anything without counsel.

⁶ The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more than usual, until it should burn to the uttermost. ²⁰ And he commanded mighty men to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then those men were bound with their coats, caps, and trousers, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, ²² forasmuch as the king's word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceedingly hot. ²³ Then these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praises to God, and blessing the Lord. ²⁴ And Nebuchadnezzar heard them singing praises. And he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And they said to the king, Yes, O king. ²⁵ And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.

¹⁶ Then Herod, seeing that he had been deceived by the wise men, was greatly enraged; and he sent and executed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men.

²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

² For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

¹⁰ The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away; the desire of the sinner shall perish.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes, that I may not be ashamed.

⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.

²³ Keep your heart with the utmost care, for out of these are the issues of life.

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.

²² A glad heart promotes health, but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

⁹ "And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him,

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

¹³ And if I also despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also He should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they formed too, as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

⁵ Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them openly.

²¹ He that dishonors the needy, sins, but he that has pity on the poor is most blessed.

² The rich and the poor meet together, but the Lord made them both.

¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.

²² Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates. ²³ For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

⁸ If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter; for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

⁸ For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."

⁷ But as you abound in everything--in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us--see that you abound in this grace also. ⁸ I speak not by a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁷ But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And in this we know that we are from the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. ²⁰ Because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

²¹ And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God should love his brother also.

¹⁸ waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁵ Though the Mighty One should lay His hand upon me, forasmuch as He has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before Him.

¹⁸ Let one drive him from light into darkness.

²⁵ For I know that He is eternal who is about to deliver me, ²⁶ and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord; ²⁷ which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he flees desperately from out of His hand.

¹¹ You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me with joy with Your countenance: at Your right hand there are delights forever.

¹⁵ But I shall appear in righteousness before Your face: I shall be satisfied when Your glory appears.

⁴ Yea, though I walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

³⁷ Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

⁹ Before your pots you can feel the white thorn, He shall swallow you up as living, as in His wrath.

¹⁵ Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly, overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

¹⁶ For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise again, but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the sentence: Mene; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. ²⁷ Tekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting. ²⁸ Peres; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In the same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

²⁹ "Lord, now You are releasing Your servant in peace, according to Your word;

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come."

²⁴ Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."

²² But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

⁵⁵ "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" ⁵⁶ Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁹ Yes, we have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

⁸ but we are confident and prefer rather to be away from home from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

²¹ For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²³ For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

³ For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.

¹⁸ And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!

¹³ And I heard a voice out of heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on,' "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow with them."

²³ An understanding man is a throne of wisdom, but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.

¹⁶ Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but the fool displays his own mischief.

² The tongue of the wise knows what is good, but the mouth of the foolish speaks evil things.

²⁸ The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness, but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. ^(15:28A) The ways of righteous men are acceptable with the Lord, and through them even enemies become friends.

¹¹ A fool utters all his mind, but the wise reserves his in part.

³ Yea, and whenever a fool walks down the road, his heart will fail him, and all that he thinks of is folly.

⁶ And you shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷ For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon Him? ⁸ And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

¹ And it shall come to pass, if you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and do all these commands which I charge you this day, that the Lord your God shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth; ² and all these blessings shall come upon you, and shall find you. If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, ³ blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. ⁵ Blessed shall be your barns, and your stores. ⁶ Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your going out. ⁷ The Lord shall cause your enemies that withstand you to be utterly broken before your face — they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you. ⁸ The Lord shall send upon you His blessing in your barns, and on all on which you shall put your hand, in the land which the Lord your God gives you. ⁹ The Lord shall raise you up as a holy people unto Himself, as He swore to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all His ways. ¹⁰ And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you. ¹¹ And the Lord your God shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your livestock, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to you. ¹² May the Lord open to you His good treasure from out of the heavens, to give rain to your land in season; may He bless all the works of your hands. So shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. ¹³ The Lord your God shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I command you this day to observe. ¹⁴ You shall not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe all His commandments, as many as I command you this day, then all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. ¹⁶ Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be your barns and your stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shall you be in your coming in, and cursed shall you be in your going out. ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon you various needs, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until He has utterly destroyed you, and until He has consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken Him. ²¹ The Lord shall cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until He has consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it. ²² The Lord smite you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you. ²³ And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. ²⁴ The Lord your God shall make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it has destroyed you, and until it has quickly consumed you. ²⁵ The Lord shall give you up for slaughter before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away. ²⁷ The Lord shall smite you with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed. ²⁸ The Lord shall smite you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind. ²⁹ And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper. ³⁰ You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it. ³¹ Your calf shall be slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper. ³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes, wasting away, shall look for them; your hand shall have no strength. ³³ A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed. ³⁴ And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see. ³⁵ The Lord shall smite you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. ³⁶ The Lord shall carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and there shall you serve other gods, of wood and stone. ³⁷ And there shall you be a wonder and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away. ³⁸ You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it. ³⁹ You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it. ⁴⁰ You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast its fruit. ⁴¹ You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be yours, for they shall depart into captivity. ⁴² All your trees and the fruits of your land shall the blight consume. ⁴³ The stranger that is within you shall be lifted up, and you shall be brought down very low. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and shall overtake you, until He has consumed you, and until He has destroyed you, because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commands and His statutes which He has commanded you. ⁴⁶ And these things shall be signs for you, and wonders among your seed forever; ⁴⁷ because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things. ⁴⁸ And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the desire of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until He has destroyed you. ⁴⁹ The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young. ⁵¹ And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you; ⁵² and has utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed in which you trusted, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which He has given to you. ⁵³ And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that He has given you, in your desperate straits and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you. ⁵⁴ He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him; ⁵⁵ so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities. ⁵⁶ And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷ and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the needs of all things, secretly in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities. ⁵⁸ If you will not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD; ⁵⁹ then shall the Lord magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases. ⁶⁰ And He shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you. ⁶¹ And the Lord shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and everyone that is written in the book of this law, until He has destroyed you. ⁶² And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you go to inherit it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which you knew not, nor your fathers. ⁶⁵ Moreover among those nations He will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and the Lord shall give you there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul. ⁶⁶ And your life shall be in suspense before your eyes, and you shall be afraid by day and by night, and you shall have no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷ In the morning you shall say, If only it were evening! And in the evening you shall say, If only it were morning! For the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sights of your eyes which you shall see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you shall be sold there to your enemies as male and female slaves, and no one shall buy you.

¹⁸ Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness. ¹⁹ And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him: ²⁰ God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and His jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law. ²² And another generation shall say — even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it, ²³ brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His wrath and anger) — ²⁴ and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What is this great fierceness of anger? ²⁵ And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which He appointed to their fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and they went and served other gods which they knew not, neither did He assign them to them. ²⁷ And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law. ²⁸ And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as it is this day.

⁶ And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land. ⁷ And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days with Joshua, as many as knew all the great work of the Lord, what things He had done in Israel. ⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath Heres, in Mount Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. ¹⁰ And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which He wrought in Israel. ¹¹ And the children of Israel did evil before the Lord, and served Baalam. ¹² And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and walked after other gods, of the gods of the nations round about them; and they worshipped them. ¹³ And they provoked the Lord, and forsook Him, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. ¹⁴ And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and He gave them into the hands of the plunderers, and they plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could not any longer resist their enemies,

³⁴ a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

² I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your betrothal, ³ in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of His increase. All that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord. ⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain? ⁶ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in? ⁷ And I brought you to Carmel, that you should eat the fruits thereof, and the goods thereof; and you went in, and defiled My land, and made My heritage an abomination. ⁸ The priest said not, Where is the Lord? And they that held by the law knew Me not: the shepherds also sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not. ⁹ Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children. ¹⁰ For go to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done; ¹¹ if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but My people have changed their glory, for that from which they shall not be profited. ¹² The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horrorstruck, says the Lord. ¹³ For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? Why has he become a spoil? ¹⁵ The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness; and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited. ¹⁶ Also the children of Memphis and Tahpanhes have known you, and mocked you. ¹⁷ Has not your forsaking Me brought these things upon you? Says the Lord your God. ¹⁸ And now what have you to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Gihon? And what have you to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers? ¹⁹ Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me has been bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God. ²⁰ For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve You, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication. ²¹ Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort — how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness! ²² Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening; ²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her. ²⁵ Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself — for she loved strangers, and went after them.

¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities; ³ and you shall say, Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem: Your root and your birth are of the land of Canaan: your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ And as for your birth in the day in which you were born, you did not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water, neither were you salted with salt, neither were you swathed in swaddling-bands. ⁵ Nor did My eye pity you, to do for you one of all these things, to feel at all for you; but you were cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of your person, in the day in which you were born. ⁶ And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, Let there be life out of your blood; ⁷ increase; I have made you as the springing grass of the field. So you increased and grew, and entered into great cities: your breasts were set, and your hair grew, whereas you were naked and bare. ⁸ And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, it was your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore an oath to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine. ⁹ And I washed you in water, and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ And I clothed you with embroidered garments, and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk, ¹¹ and decked you also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands, and a necklace on your neck. ¹² And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head. ¹³ So you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour and oil and honey, and became extremely beautiful. ¹⁴ And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord. ¹⁵ But you trusted in your beauty, and went a-whoring because of your fame, and poured out your fornication on every passer by. ¹⁶ And you took of your garments, and made for yourself idols of needlework, and went a-whoring after them; therefore you shall never come in, nor shall the like take place. ¹⁷ And you took your fair ornaments of My gold and of My silver, of what I gave you, and you made for yourself male images, and you committed harlotry with them. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set before them My oil and My incense. ¹⁹ And you took My bread which I gave you, (yea, I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey) and set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor; yes, it was so, says the Lord. ²⁰ And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and sacrificed these to them to be destroyed. You went a-whoring as if that were little, ²¹ and slain your children, and gave them up, in offering them up as a sacrifice. ²² This is beyond all your fornication, and you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and lived, though defiled in your blood. ²³ And it came to pass after all your wickedness, says the Lord, ²⁴ that you built yourself a house of fornication, and made a public place for yourself in every street; ²⁵ and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication. ²⁶ And you went a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and went a-whoring, often to provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver you up to the will of those that hate you, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned. ²⁸ And you went a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even then were you satisfied; yea, you went a-whoring, and were not satisfied. ²⁹ And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied. ³⁰ Why should I make a covenant with your daughter, says the Lord, while you do all these things, the works of a harlot? And you have gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with your daughters. ³¹ You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments. ³² An adulteress resembles you, taking rewards of her husband. ³³ She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and you have given rewards to all your lovers, yea, you loaded them with rewards, that they should come to you from every side for your fornication. ³⁴ And there has happened in you perverseness in your fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with you, in that you give payments over and above, and payments were not given to you; and thus perverseness happened in you. ³⁵ Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord: ³⁶ Thus says the Lord: Because you have poured forth your money, therefore your shame shall be discovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of your iniquities, and for the blood of your children which you have given to them. ³⁷ Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame. ³⁸ And I will be avenged on you with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon you blood of fury and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall break down your house of harlotry, and destroy your high place; and they shall strip you of your garments, and shall take your proud ornaments, and leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ And they shall bring multitudes upon you, and they shall stone you with stones, and pierce you with their swords. ⁴¹ And they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on you in the sight of many women; and I will turn you back from harlotry, and I will no more give you rewards. ⁴² So will I slacken My fury against you, and My jealousy shall be removed from you, and I will rest, and be no more careful for you. ⁴³ Because you did not remember the days of your youth, and you grieved Me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed your ways upon your head, says the Lord; for thus have you wrought ungodliness above all your other iniquities. ⁴⁴ These are all the things they have spoken against you in a proverb, saying, ⁴⁵ As is the mother, so is your mother's daughter: you are she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of your sisters have rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Your elder sister who dwells on your left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, that dwells on your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom — pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of your sins; but you have multiplied your iniquities beyond them, and you have justified your sisters in all your iniquities which you have committed. ⁵² You therefore bear your punishment, for that you have corrupted your sisters by your sins which you have committed beyond them; and you have made them appear more righteous than yourself: you therefore be ashamed, and bear your dishonor, in that you have justified your sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them; ⁵⁴ that you may bear your punishment, and be dishonored for all that you have done in provoking Me to anger. ⁵⁵ And your sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and you and your daughters shall be restored as you were at the beginning. ⁵⁶ And surely your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the days of your pride; ⁵⁷ before your wickedness was discovered, even now you are the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Philistines that compass you round about. ⁵⁸ As for your ungodliness and your iniquities, you have borne them, says the Lord. ⁵⁹ Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant. ⁶⁰ And I will remember My covenant, made with you in the days of your infancy, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ Then you shall remember your way, and shall be utterly dishonored when you receive your elder sisters with your younger ones, and I will give them to you for building up, but not by your covenant. ⁶² And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, ⁶³ that you may remember, and be ashamed, and may no more be able to open your mouth for your shame, when I am reconciled to you for all that you have done, says the Lord.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities. ³ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself; ⁴ in their blood which you have shed, you have transgressed; and in your devices which you have formed, you have polluted yourself; and you have brought near your days, and have brought on the time of your years; therefore have I made you a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries, ⁵ to those near you, and to those far away; and they shall mock you, you that are notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities. ⁶ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood. ⁷ In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow. ⁸ And they have set at nought My holy things, and in you they have profaned My Sabbaths. ⁹ There are robbers in you, to shed blood in you; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains; they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of you. ¹⁰ In you they have uncovered the father's shame; and in you they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness. ¹¹ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor's wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in you they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father. ¹² In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord. ¹³ And if I shall smite My hand at your iniquities which you have accomplished, which you have wrought, and at your blood that has been shed in the midst of you, ¹⁴ shall your heart endure? Shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it. ¹⁵ And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness shall be removed out of you. ¹⁶ And I will give heritages in you in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, behold, the house of Israel has become to Me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver. ¹⁹ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ²⁰ As silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in My wrath, and I will gather and melt you. ²¹ And I will blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof; and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out My wrath upon you. ²³ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹ According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

⁴ A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. ⁵ Him that secretly speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me; he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart — with him I have not eaten. ⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. ⁷ He that is proud dwelled not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. ⁸ Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.

⁵ A wise son is saved from heat, but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.

² A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion, but as dew on the grass, so is his favor. ¹³ A foolish son is a disgrace to his father; vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.

²⁶ He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.

⁸ Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

²⁶ A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.

¹¹ The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable to Him; a king rules with his lips.

⁵ Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.

¹² When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.

⁴⁵ "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master appointed over his household, to give them food in due season? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ Assuredly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying to come,' ⁴⁹ "and should begin to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know, ⁵¹ and he will cut him in two, and will appoint his share with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²¹ "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

²³ "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

⁴² And the Lord said, "Who then is a faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? ⁴³ Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, ⁴⁶ the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know, and he will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. ⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not get ready or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But he who did not know, yet did things worthy of blows, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be demanded; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him they will ask much more.