Proverbs 10 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is sadness unto his mother. ² ¶ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death. ³ The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, but wickedness shall cast out the wicked. ⁴ ¶ He that deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. ⁵ ¶ He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame. ⁶ ¶ Blessings are upon the head of the just, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence. ⁷ ¶ The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall stink. ⁸ ¶ The wise in heart will receive the commandments, but he who speaks foolishness shall fall. ⁹ ¶ He that walks in integrity walks securely, but he that perverts his ways shall be broken. ¹⁰ ¶ He that winks with the eye causes sorrow, and he that speaks foolishness shall fall. ¹¹ ¶ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence. ¹² ¶ Hatred stirs up strifes, but love covers all sins. ¹³ ¶ In the lips of the prudent wisdom is found and is a rod unto the back of him that is void of understanding. ¹⁴ ¶ Wise men keep knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near unto calamity. ¹⁵ ¶ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the weakness of the poor is their poverty. ¹⁶ ¶ The work of the righteous is unto life, but the fruit of the wicked is for sin. ¹⁷ ¶ He is in the way of life that gives heed to chastening, but he that refuses reproof errs. ¹⁸ ¶ He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool. ¹⁹ ¶ In the multitude of words there is no lack of rebellion, but he that refrains his lips is wise. ²⁰ ¶ The tongue of the just is as choice silver, but the understanding {Heb. heart} of the wicked is worth little. ²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom. ²² ¶ The blessing of the LORD is that which makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. ²³ ¶ To make an abomination is as sport to the fool, but wisdom is recreation to the man of intelligence. ²⁴ ¶ The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, but God shall grant the desire of the righteous. ²⁵ When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is founded for ever. ²⁶ ¶ As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those that send him. ²⁷ ¶ The fear of the LORD shall prolong days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. ²⁸ The hope of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked shall perish. ²⁹ ¶ The way of the LORD is strength to the perfect, but it is terror to the workers of iniquity. ³⁰ The righteous eternally shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. ³¹ ¶ The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out. ³² The lips of the righteous shall know the will of God, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversion.

³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

¹ ¶ The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;

²⁰ ¶ The wise son makes a glad father, but the foolish man despises his mother.

²¹ ¶ He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool shall have no joy.

²⁵ ¶ The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

¹³ ¶ A foolish son is a pain unto his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart shall also rejoice; ¹⁶ my kidneys shall also rejoice when thy lips speak right things.

²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begets a wise child shall have joy with him. ²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.

¹ ¶ These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

³ ¶ Whosoever loves wisdom causes his father to rejoice, but he that maintains harlots shall lose his inheritance.

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

¹⁹ And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool, he who shall have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

⁹ And the wiser the preacher became that much more did he teach wisdom to the people, causing them to listen and to search things out, and he composed many proverbs.

⁶ ¶ Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; ⁷ none of them can by any means ransom his brother, nor give God an atonement for him; ⁸ (for the redemption of their soul is of great price, and they shall never pay it) ⁹ that he should still live for ever and not see corruption. ¹⁰ For he sees that all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others.

⁴ ¶ Riches shall not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness shall deliver from death.

²⁸ ¶ In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

⁶ ¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.

² to turn aside the poor from right judgment and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless! ³ And what will ye do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your glory?

¹⁹ They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold far from them their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels because it shall be the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, approve my counsel and redeem thy sins with righteousness and thine iniquities with mercies unto the poor: behold the medicine for thy sin.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath, but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all those that dwell in the earth.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. ¹⁶ And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully; ¹⁷ and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? ¹⁸ And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my storehouses and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up? ²¹ So is he that lays up treasure for himself and is not rich in God.

²² And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom; the rich man also died and was buried; ²³ and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

²¹ so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.

⁹ ¶ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹ ¶ Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. ² Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

²⁰ In famine he shall ransom thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? ⁶ Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds, ⁷ yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him? ⁸ He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: yea, he shall flee away as a vision of the night.

²⁰ therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired. ²¹ Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him.

²⁸ The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁹ to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in the famine.

⁹ Teth O fear the LORD, ye his saints; for those that fear him lack nothing. ¹⁰ Jod The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but those that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

³ Beth Wait in the LORD and do good; live in the land and uphold the truth.

¹⁹ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

²⁵ Nun I have been young and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

¹⁰ Resh The wicked shall see it and be furious; Schin he shall gnash with his teeth and waste away: Tau The desire of the wicked shall perish.

³² ¶ For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

¹⁶ he shall dwell upon the high places: fortresses of rocks shall be his place of refuge: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied that which was not his! And for how long would he pile thick clay upon himself? ⁷ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place, and thou shalt be for a prey unto them? ⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and for the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein.

³⁰ Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? ³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things.) For your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things. ³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

²² ¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. ²³ The life is more than food, and the body is more than raiment. ²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

³¹ But rather seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶ So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

⁶ ¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise, ⁷ Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. ⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.

²⁴ ¶ There are those who scatter, and more is added unto them; and there are those who withhold more than is just, but come to poverty.

²⁴ ¶ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the negligent shall be under tribute.

⁴ ¶ The soul of the sluggard desires, and attains nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

¹⁵ ¶ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the negligent soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴ ¶ The slothful man hides his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

⁴ ¶ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.

¹³ ¶ Do not love sleep lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

⁵ ¶ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness, but of every one that is too hasty, only to want.

³⁰ ¶ I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, ³¹ and, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered its face, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it and received chastening. ³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.

¹⁸ By much slothfulness the building decays, and through idleness of the hands the rain drips throughout the house.

²⁷ Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.

⁵⁸ ¶ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

¹¹ But we desire that each one of you show the same diligence until the end for the fulfillment of your hope, ¹² that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

⁵ ¶ Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God; ⁷ and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity. ⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

⁶ ¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,

⁸ provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

⁴ ¶ The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

² ¶ A prudent slave shall have rule over a son that causes shame and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

²⁶ ¶ He that steals from his father and chases away his mother is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

⁶ ¶ Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near: ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

² and all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee when thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen upon the bed upon which Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? When this word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

⁴² The righteous shall see it and rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

¹¹ ¶ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence.

²⁶ ¶ He that withholds the grain, the people shall curse him, but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.

²⁵ But unto those that rebuke him shall be delight, and a blessing of good shall come upon them.

²⁰ ¶ The man of truth shall abound with blessings, but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be absolved.

¹⁹ ¶ Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain; ¹⁷ for when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me. ¹⁸ The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day; and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

³⁶ And unto his son I will give one tribe, that David my slave may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name in her.

³⁴ For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake and for my slave David’s sake.

¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward his house.

¹⁷ His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.

⁵ Thou hast reprehended the Gentiles, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. ⁶ O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and the cities that thou hast destroyed; their memorial is perished with them.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

⁶ ¶ Caph Surely he shall not be moved for ever; Lamed the righteous shall be in eternal remembrance.

¹⁰ Then I also saw that the wicked who were buried came into remembrance more than those who had frequented the holy place, and these were forgotten in the city where they had worked uprightly. This also is vanity.

¹³ O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; and those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

⁹ Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

⁴⁸ for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; for, behold, from now on all generations shall call me blessed.

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

⁵ If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

¹⁰ ¶ He that winks with the eye causes sorrow, and he that speaks foolishness shall fall.

¹ ¶ Whosoever loves chastening loves knowledge, but he that hates reproof is carnal.

¹³ ¶ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of the tribulation.

³ ¶ He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens his lips often shall have calamity.

⁸ ¶ The wisdom of the sane is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

²³ ¶ In all labour there is fruit, but to talk and not do, brings poverty.

⁶ ¶ A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes. ⁷ A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

¹² ¶ The words from the mouth of the wise man are grace, but the lips of the fool will swallow up himself.

²⁴ Therefore, whosoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded upon a rock.

¹³ ¶ Who is wise and ready among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me.

²¹ Tau Integrity and uprightness shall preserve me, for I have waited for thee.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; ransom me and be merciful unto me. ¹² I have walked uprightly; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield unto us; the LORD will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good from those that walk uprightly.

²³ Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

²⁰ ¶ He that has a perverse heart shall never find good, and he that stirs up trouble with his tongue shall fall into evil.

¹⁸ ¶ Whosoever walks in integrity shall be saved, but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall into one of them.

¹⁵ He that walks in righteousness, he that speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of violence, he that shakes his hands from receiving bribes; he that stops his ears to not hear of blood; he who shuts his eyes to not see evil; ¹⁶ he shall dwell upon the high places: fortresses of rocks shall be his place of refuge: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

²⁶ Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.

¹ ¶ In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known.

⁵ Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.

¹³ And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, dost live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

²⁵ Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise cannot be hid.

¹² Why does thine heart carry thee away, and why do thine eyes blink,

¹⁹ Let not those that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those that hate me wink with the eye without a cause.

¹³ He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

⁸ ¶ The wise in heart will receive the commandments, but he who speaks foolishness shall fall.

²¹ ¶ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will cause his deeds to be understood, speaking against us with malicious words, and not content with this, he does not receive the brethren and forbids those that desire to receive them and casts them out of the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}.

³⁰ Pe The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment. ³¹ The law of his God is in his heart; therefore none of his steps shall slide.

⁶ ¶ Blessings are upon the head of the just, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence.

²⁰ ¶ The tongue of the just is as choice silver, but the understanding {Heb. heart} of the wicked is worth little. ²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

³² The lips of the righteous shall know the will of God, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversion.

¹⁴ ¶ The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

⁷ ¶ The lips of the wise disperse wisdom, but the heart of the foolish does not so.

²² ¶ Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly. ²³ ¶ The heart of the wise causes his mouth to be prudent, and with his lips he shall increase doctrine. ²⁴ ¶ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and medicine to the bones.

⁴ ¶ The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

¹⁵ ¶ There is gold and a multitude of precious stones, but the lips of wisdom are a precious vessel.

¹² ¶ The words from the mouth of the wise man are grace, but the lips of the fool will swallow up himself. ¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. ¹⁴ The fool multiplies words and says, Man cannot tell what shall be, and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for edification, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

⁵ In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell. ⁷ For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of beings in the sea may be tamed and is tamed by mankind, ⁸ but no man can tame the tongue, which is an evil that cannot be restrained and is full of deadly poison.

¹⁸ ¶ A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.

²⁷ ¶ The man of Belial digs in search of evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

⁹ ¶ He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

²⁵ ¶ He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

²² ¶ The angry man stirs up strife, and the furious man abounds in transgression.

⁴ ¶ Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, ⁶ rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¹ ¶ Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

²⁰ let that one know, that whosoever causes the sinner to convert from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover a multitude of sins.

¹² ¶ Then the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat all the grass of the land and all that the hail has left.

⁹ Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in subjection with bit and bridle, or they will not come near unto thee.

³² But whosoever commits adultery with a woman has a fault in his heart; he that does it corrupts his own soul.

²² He went after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

¹⁰ ¶ He that winks with the eye causes sorrow, and he that speaks foolishness shall fall. ¹¹ ¶ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but the mouth of the wicked covers violence.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

³¹ ¶ The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

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

¹⁰ ¶ Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.

²⁹ ¶ Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fools.

³ ¶ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

²² ¶ Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

⁴ ¶ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken my ear, that I might hear, as the wise.

²² And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

¹ ¶ Whosoever goes astray seeks according to his own lust and shall meddle with every doctrine.

⁷ A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

¹⁵ ¶ The heart of the man of understanding acquires wisdom, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

⁸ ¶ He that gets wisdom loves his own soul; he keeps intelligence that he might find that which is good.

²³ ¶ Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

⁴⁴ ¶ Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto treasure hid in the field, which when found, a man hides it and, for the joy thereof, goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

⁵² And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, a husband of a house, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

⁶ For the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to bring forth the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this treasure in clay vessels that the excellency of the virtue may be of God, and not of us.

²⁴ ¶ If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;

⁶ ¶ Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

⁷ Behold, this is the man that did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

²⁰ ¶ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour, but many are those who love the rich.

¹¹ ¶ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city and as a high wall in his imagination.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.

²² ¶ Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment: ²³ For the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

¹² For knowledge is a defence, and money is a defence; but wisdom excels in that it gives life to those that have it.

²³ ¶ Thus hath the LORD said, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

¹ ¶ Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands. ² And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.

²⁴ And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answered again and said unto them, Children, how hard is it for those that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

¹⁷ Charge those that are rich in this world, that they not be highminded, not placing their hope in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

¹⁸ ¶ The wicked works a deceitful work, but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward. ¹⁹ ¶ As righteousness is unto life, so he that pursues evil pursues it unto his own death.

³⁰ ¶ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that wins souls is wise.

¹⁰ Say unto the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat of the fruit of their doings. ¹¹ Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.

¹⁷ Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

³³ Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁷ Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. ⁸ For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows in the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

¹⁷ And that word will eat away as gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past and have overthrown the faith of some.

¹³ But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.

¹⁶ And as the prophet was speaking these things unto him, he said unto him, Art thou appointed as the king’s counsel? Forbear; why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

²⁵ for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof: ²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

³⁰ They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

¹ ¶ My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments: ² For they shall add length of days and long life and peace unto thee.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those that lay hold upon her, and blessed is every one that retains her.

⁴ He taught me and said unto me, Sustain thine heart with my words; keep my commandments, and live.

¹³ Take fast hold of chastening; do not let go; keep this; for it is thy life.

¹² and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof

²³ For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,

¹⁰ ¶ Chastening is grievous unto him that forsakes the way, but he that hates reproof shall die.

¹⁷ ¶ Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my wisdom. ¹⁸ For it is a delightful thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall be ordered together in thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

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

⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was ignorance. Why should thou cause God to be angry because of thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands?

²⁴ Therefore, whosoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded upon a rock. ²⁶ And every one that hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.

²⁸ But he said, Rather, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

¹ ¶ Therefore, it is necessary that we with more diligence keep the things which we have heard, so that we do not fall.

²⁵ See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from the heavens,

⁵ ¶ Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God; ⁷ and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity. ⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they shall not let you be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall. ¹¹ Because in this manner the entrance shall be abundantly administered unto you in the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

²¹ And Saul said, I will give her to him that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore, Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law with the other one. ²² And Saul commanded his slaves, saying, Speak with David secretly and say, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his slaves love thee; now, therefore, be the king’s son-in-law.

²⁹ was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.

²⁷ And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly and smote him there under the fifth rib that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

⁸ And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and royal food was sent unto him. ⁹ But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the slaves of his lord and did not go down to his house. ¹⁰ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah did not go down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Didst thou not come from thy journey? Why then didst thou not go down to thy house? ¹¹ And Uriah said unto David, The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents, and my lord Joab and the slaves of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By thy life and by the life of thy soul, I will not do this thing. ¹² And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the next day. ¹³ And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the slaves of his lord but did not go down to his house. ¹⁴ ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire from him, that he may be smitten and die.

²³ And it came to pass after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons. ²⁴ And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, thy slave has sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his slaves go with thy slave. ²⁵ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go lest we be burdensome unto thee. And he pressed him; however, he would not go but blessed him. ²⁶ Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee? ²⁷ But because Absalom pressed him, he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him. ²⁸ Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant. ²⁹ And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and they all got upon their mules and fled.

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

⁹ For there is no uprightness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

² Each one speaks vanity with his neighbour: they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.

³ He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

²⁰ Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother’s son.

²¹ The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

⁵ Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

²⁴ ¶ He that hates dissembles with his lips and lays up deceit within him; ²⁵ when he speaks fair, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. ²⁶ Even though his hatred is covered up in the desert, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.

²⁰ ¶ And they watched him and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. ²¹ And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither dost thou accept the person of any, but teachest the way of God with truth;

¹ To the Overcomer, even to Jeduthun,
A Psalm of David. ¶ I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.

²⁷ ¶ He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. ²⁸ Even a fool, when he is silent is counted wise, and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

³ For out of much preoccupation comes the dream, and the voice of the fool out of a multitude of words.

¹⁹ ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

² For we all offend in many things. If any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to govern the whole body with restraint.

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

²¹ And the LORD smelled a savour of rest, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his childhood; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done.

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, yea, than precious stones, and my revenue than choice silver.

¹⁸ ¶ There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

⁴ ¶ The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

¹³ ¶ Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks that which is right.

⁷ for as he thinks in his soul, so is he; Eat and drink, he shall say unto thee, but his heart is not with thee.

¹¹ ¶ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold inscribed with silver. ¹² As an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is he who reproves a wise man who has a docile ear.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

¹² Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

²¹ They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel. ²² After my words they would not reply, but my reason dropped upon them.

³⁰ Pe The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment.

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.

²³ He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

¹⁶ ¶ Of what good is the price to buy wisdom in the hand of the fool, seeing he has no heart to understand?

⁹ And the wiser the preacher became that much more did he teach wisdom to the people, causing them to listen and to search things out, and he composed many proverbs. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find willing words and upright writings, even words of truth.

¹⁵ And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

¹⁶ Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.

⁶ ¶ My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who was planted beside the way.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

¹⁵ ¶ So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He said unto him, Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He said unto him, Yes, Lord thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my sheep. ¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said unto him, Feed my sheep.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, to do those things which are not convenient,

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, caring for her, not by force, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with willing desire;

² and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

²³ that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet; I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,

³⁵ And the LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he is become great; and he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and menslaves and maidslaves and camels and asses.

¹² ¶ Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year one hundred-fold, and the LORD blessed him.

¹⁷ and thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is he that gives thee the power to get wealth that he may confirm his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

¹⁸ But keep yourselves from the anathema, that ye not touch nor take any thing of the anathema so that ye not make the camp of Israel anathema and trouble it.

¹ ¶ But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in the anathema; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the anathema; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the sons of Israel. ² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which was beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai. ³ And they returned to Joshua and said unto him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; do not make all the people to labour there; for they are but few. ⁴ So about three thousand men of the people went up there; and they fled before the men of Ai. ⁵ And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty-six men; for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down; therefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. ⁶ ¶ Then Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, putting dust upon their heads. ⁷ And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou caused this people to pass the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? We should have been content and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! ⁸ O Lord, what shall I say now that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall compass us around and cut off our name from upon the earth; then what wilt thou do unto thy great name? ¹⁰ ¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get up; why dost thou lie thus upon thy face? ¹¹ Israel has sinned and has even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; for they have even taken of the anathema and have also stolen and lied also, and they have even put it in their own vessels. ¹² Therefore, the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but shall turn their backs before their enemies because they have been in the anathema; neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the anathema from among you. ¹³ Get up, sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is anathema in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thy enemies until ye take away the anathema from among you. ¹⁴ In the morning, therefore, ye shall come near according to your tribes, and it shall be that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to the families thereof, and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households, and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man. ¹⁵ And it shall be that he that is taken in the anathema shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has because he has broken the covenant of the LORD and because he has wrought folly in Israel. ¹⁶ ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken; ¹⁷ and bringing near the tribe of Judah, the family of the Zarhites was taken; and bringing near the family of the Zarhites man by man, Zabdi was taken; ¹⁸ and he caused his household to come near, man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. ¹⁹ Then Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory now to the LORD God of Israel and give him praise; and tell me now what thou hast done; do not hide it from me. ²⁰ And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. ²¹ When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. ²² So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent and the silver under it. ²³ And they took them out of the midst of the tent and brought them unto Joshua and unto all the sons of Israel and laid them out before the LORD. ²⁴ Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? The LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones. ²⁶ And they raised over them a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

⁷ The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and lifts up. ⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he has set the world upon them.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, Hast thou murdered and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him again, saying, Thus hath the LORD said, In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs also lick thy blood, even thine.

²⁶ Then he said unto him, Did not my heart go with thee when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money and to receive garments and oliveyards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menslaves and maidslaves? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul? ⁹ Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him? ¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God? ¹¹ ¶ I will teach you what there is in the hand of God; I will not conceal that which is regarding the Almighty. ¹² Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye so completely vain? ¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. ¹⁴ If their sons are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He built his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper makes. ¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone. ²⁰ Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place. ²² For God shall cast down on him and not spare; he would attempt to flee out of his hand. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and from his place they shall hiss at him.

²² For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the earth, and those that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

³⁸ He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly and suffers not their cattle to decrease.

⁷ He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts the destitute out of the dunghill; ⁸ that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

²¹ ¶ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²² ¶ He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

⁶ Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied that which was not his! And for how long would he pile thick clay upon himself? ⁷ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place, and thou shalt be for a prey unto them? ⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and for the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein. ⁹ Woe to him that covets ill-gotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil! ¹⁰ Thou hast taken shameful counsel for thy house by cutting off many peoples and hast committed a sin against thy life. ¹¹ For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. ¹² Woe to him that builds the city with blood and founds the village with iniquity!

⁴ I brought it forth, said the LORD of the hosts, 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 remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

¹ ¶ Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. ² Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. ⁴ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have refreshed your hearts, as in the day of slaughter of sacrifices.

¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

⁹ ¶ Fools speak sin unto themselves, but among the righteous there is love.

²¹ ¶ Folly is joy to him that is destitute of understanding, but the man who is intelligent walks uprightly.

¹⁸ ¶ As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ so is the man that destroys his friend and says, Am I not in sport?

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²¹ Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him.

² Thou hast given him his heart’s desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

⁴ In the same manner delight thyself in the LORD, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart.

¹⁹ Resh He will fulfil the desire of those that fear him; he also will hear their cry and will save them.

⁴ I also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because I called, and no one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes and chose that which displeased me.

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

¹⁸ ¶ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

²⁴ Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.

²⁷ but a certain fearful hope of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

¹⁴ ¶ And this is the confidence that we have in God, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have the petitions that we asked of him.

¹⁸ They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he shall open his eyes and not see anyone. ²⁰ Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

⁵ He that does not put out his money to usury nor take a bribe against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off; but those that wait for the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. ¹⁰ Vau For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the fire of the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

¹⁸ Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; in desolation thou shalt cause them to fall. ¹⁹ How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They have come to an end; they are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As the dream of one who awakes; so, O Lord, when thou shalt rise up, thou shalt despise their appearances.

²⁷ when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

³⁰ The righteous eternally shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

³ ¶ Man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

⁷ ¶ God shall overthrow the wicked, and they shall not be any longer, but the house of the righteous shall remain.

²⁴ As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

¹⁸ And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, a small rock and upon the large rock I will build my congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

²⁰ and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,

¹⁹ laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the future, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

¹⁹ ¶ Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

¹³ ¶ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those that send him, for he refreshes the soul of his master.

²⁰ ¶ As he that takes away a garment in cold weather and as vinegar upon soap, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart.

⁶ ¶ He that gives responsibility to one who is not able to carry it out is like him that sends a message by the hand of a fool, and he shall drink the damage.

⁵ who say, Stand by thyself, do not come near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

²⁶ His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful slave, thou knewest that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I have not scattered;

¹¹ not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

¹² that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

³² He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

¹⁵ ¶ Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou didst give him length of days for ever and ever.

¹¹ ¶ Caph Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. ¹² Lamed Who is the man that desires life and loves many days that he may see good? ¹³ Mem Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

²³ But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

² For they shall add length of days and long life and peace unto thee.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour.

¹¹ For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

¹⁷ Do not be hasty to condemn, neither be thou foolish: why should thou die in the midst of thy labours?

¹¹ As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?

¹³ So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest secure.

²⁴ Thou hast guided me with thy counsel, and afterward thou shalt receive me unto glory. ²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire. ²⁶ My flesh and my heart fail; the strength of my heart is that God is my portion for ever.

⁷ ¶ When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of unjust men shall perish.

²³ and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime didst receive thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented. ²⁶ And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass from there to us.

² by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory of the sons of God.

¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

¹³ ¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ ¶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

³ Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity?

⁶ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

¹² There are the workers of iniquity fallen; they are cast down and shall not be able to rise.

²⁰ Caph But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD as the fattest of rams shall be consumed; as smoke they shall fade away.

⁷ They go forth in a great multitude; and in order, they shall see God in Zion.

⁷ ¶ The wicked spring forth as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity blossom, so that they shall be destroyed for ever:

¹⁵ ¶ It is joy to the just to do judgment, but it shall be destruction to the workers of iniquity.

³¹ but those that wait for the LORD shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

¹² And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? ²³ And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

²⁶ then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. ²⁷ But he shall say unto you, I know you not from where ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

⁸ but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. ⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;

¹³ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

⁸ ¶ I have set the LORD always before me: because when he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

²⁸ For the LORD loves uprightness and does not forsake his merciful ones; they are preserved for ever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. ²⁹ Ain The righteous shall inherit the earth and live upon it for ever.

⁵ God shall likewise cast thee down for ever; he shall cut thee off and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹ A Song of degrees. ¶ Those that trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abides for ever.

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. ²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

²⁵ When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is founded for ever.

²⁴ Son of man, those that inhabit these wastes in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; but we are many; the land is given us for a possession. ²⁵ Therefore say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Ye eat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed blood, and shall ye possess this land? ²⁶ Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile each one his neighbour’s wife, and shall ye possess the land?

⁹ Ye have cast the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their children ye have taken away my continual praise. ¹⁰ Arise and depart, for this is not your rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.

⁴¹ They say unto him, He will destroy those wicked men without mercy and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) ³⁷ Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸ Therefore I am certain that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come ³⁹ nor height nor depth nor any creature shall be able to separate us from the charity of God, which is in Christ, Jesus our Lord.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of those that speak lies shall be stopped.

³ What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? ⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

¹³ ¶ In the lips of the prudent wisdom is found and is a rod unto the back of him that is void of understanding.

¹² to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion,

¹¹ By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

⁶ ¶ The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

² ¶ The tongue of the wise shall adorn wisdom, but the mouth of fools shall speak foolishness.

²⁸ ¶ The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

⁶ ¶ A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes. ⁷ A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. ⁸ ¶ The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

¹⁰ The preacher sought to find willing words and upright writings, even words of truth.

⁸ sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that the adversary may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.