Proverbs 24 Cross References - MLV

¹ Do not be envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them. ² Because their heart meditates oppression and their lips talk of mischief.
³ Through wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established, ⁴ and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
⁵ A wise man is strong, yes, a man of knowledge increases might.
⁶ Because by wise guidance you will make your war and in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.
⁸ He who devises to do evil, men will call him a mischief-maker.
⁹ The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
¹⁰ If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
¹¹ Deliver those who are carried away to death and hold back those who are slipping away to be slain. ¹² If you say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? And will not he render to every man according to his work?
¹³ My son, eat honey, because it is good and the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste, ¹⁴ so the knowledge of wisdom is to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward and your hope will not be cut off.
¹⁵ Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place. ¹⁶ Because a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
¹⁷ Rejoice not when your enemy falls and do not let your heart be glad when he is overthrown, ¹⁸ lest Jehovah see it and it displease him and he turn away his wrath from him.
¹⁹ Do not be furious because of evildoers, nor be envious at the wicked. ²⁰ Because there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
²¹ My son, fear Jehovah and the king and do not associate with those who are given to change. ²² Because their calamity will rise suddenly and the destruction from them both, who knows it?
²³ These also are from the wise:
To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
²⁴ He who says to a wicked man, You are righteous, peoples will curse him, nations will defy him. ²⁵ But to those who rebuke him will be a delight and a good blessing will come upon them.
²⁶ He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.
²⁷ Prepare your work outside and make it ready for you in the field and afterwards build your house.
²⁸ Do not bear witness against your neighbor without cause and deceive not with your lips.
²⁹ Do not say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
³¹ And behold, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles and the stone wall of it was broken down.
³² Then I beheld and considered well. I saw and received instruction: ³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, ³⁴ so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere ( this was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
¹¹ So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan. And Lot traveled east and they separated themselves the one from the other. ¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan. And Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom. ¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and great sinners against Jehovah.

¹ And the two messengers came to Sodom in the evening and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth ² and he said, Behold now, my lords, I beseech you*, turn aside into your* servant's house and abide all night and wash your* feet and you* will rise up early and go on your* way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night.
³ And he urged them greatly. And they turned aside to him and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread and they ate.
⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, encompassed themselves around the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. ⁵ And they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.
⁶ And Lot went out to them to the doorway and shut the door after him. ⁷ And he said, I beseech you*, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. ⁸ Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man. I beseech you*, let me bring them out to you* and you* do to them as is good in your* eyes. Only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shadow of my roof.
⁹ And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one came in to journey and he will be a judge? Now we will deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed greatly upon the man, against Lot and drew near to break the door.
¹⁰ But the men put forth their hand and brought Lot to them into the house and shut the door. ¹¹ And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

⁹ Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood,

¹ Do not inflame yourself because of evildoers, nor be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

⁷ Rest in Jehovah and wait patiently for him. Do not inflame yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked devices.

³ Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole, as those who go down into the pit. ¹³ We will find all precious substance. We will fill our houses with spoil. ¹⁴ You will cast your lot among us. We will all have one bag.
¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them. Restrain your foot from their path.

³¹ Do not envy the man of violence and choose none of his ways.

²⁰ Walk with wise men and you will be wise. But the companion of fools will be evil for it.

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.

¹⁹ Do not be furious because of evildoers, nor be envious at the wicked.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, unbridled-lusts, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousies, furies, selfish ambitions, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings and things similar to these things; which I am telling to you beforehand, also just-as I foretold to you, that those who are practicing such things–they will not be inheriting the kingdom of God!

⁵ Or are you thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwells in us long to envy? ⁶ But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’

⁹ And David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
⁷ In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

³⁵ They conceive mischief and bring forth wickness and their heart prepares deceit.

¹⁴ Behold the wicked man, he travails with wickedness. Yes, he has conceived mischief and brought out falsehood.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

³ Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of wickedness, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

⁴ He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not reject evil.

⁴ that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him and do not fear.
⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They speak of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?
⁶ They search out iniquities, saying, We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

² and men who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.

¹⁴ in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.

⁸ He who devises to do evil, men will call him a mischief-maker.

⁴ No man sues in righteousness and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness.

³ Their hands are upon what is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

³ Then the high-priests and the scribes and the elders of the people were gathered together to the courtyard of the high-priest, who was called Caiaphas; ⁴ and they counseled together in order that they might take-hold of Jesus with treachery, and might kill him.

²⁰ Therefore Pilate shouted to them again, wishing to release Jesus.
²¹ But they were shouting out, saying, Crucify him! Crucify him!

¹⁰ and said, O full of all treachery and all villainy, you son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

²⁶ And let your name be magnified until everlasting, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel and the house of your servant David will be established before you.

¹ Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.

¹ Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.

¹² He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s cultivation, God’s building.

⁷ having been rooted and being built up in him and being confirmed in the faith, just-as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

²² And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures and a hundred sheep, besides male-deers and gazelles and roebucks and fatted fowl.
²⁴ For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River. And he had peace on all sides all around him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And those officers provided provisions for king Solomon and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. ²⁸ Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

²⁵ And Azmaveth the son of Adiel was over the king's treasures. And Jonathan the son of Uzziah was over the treasures in the fields, in the cities and in the villages and in the castles. ²⁶ And Ezri the son of Chelub was over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground. ²⁷ And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite. And Zabdi the Shiphmite was over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars. ²⁸ And Baal-hanan the Gederite was over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland. And Joash was over the cellars of oil. ²⁹ And Shitrai the Sharonite was over the herds that fed in Sharon. And Shaphat the son of Adlai was over the herds that were in the valleys. ³⁰ And Obil the Ishmaelite was over the camels. And Jehdeiah the Meronothite was over the donkeys. ³¹ And Jaziz the Hagrite was over the flocks. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.

² Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold and the silver for the things of silver and the brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron and wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and stones to be set, stones for inlaid work and of different colors and all manner of precious stones and marble stones in abundance.
³ Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, ⁴ even three thousand talants of gold, of the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talants of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses, ⁵ of gold for the things of gold and of silver for the things of silver and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to Jehovah?
⁶ Then the rulers of the fathers and the rulers of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly. ⁷ And they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talants and ten thousand 128-grain weights and of silver ten thousand talants and of brass eighteen thousand talants and of iron a hundred thousand talants. ⁸ And those with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Jehovah under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
⁹ Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Jehovah.
And David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

¹⁸ Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance. For the weight of the brass could not be found out.
¹⁹ And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, also the golden altar and the tables on which was the showbread, ²⁰ and the lamp-stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold, ²¹ and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold and that perfect gold, ²² and the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and the censors, of pure gold. And as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place and the doors of the house, namely, of the temple, were of gold.

⁴ And he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. ⁵ And he set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God. And as long as he sought Jehovah, God made him to prosper.
⁶ And he went forth and warred against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod. And he built cities in the country of Ashdod and among the Philistines.
⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal and the Meunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. And his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he grew exceedingly strong.
⁹ Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall and fortified them. ¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle, also in the lowland and in the plain. And he had farmer and vine-dressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved husbandry.
¹¹ Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

³⁹ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi will bring the heave offering of the grain, of the new wine and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary and the priests that minister and the gatekeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our God.

⁵ had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense and the vessels and the tithes of the grain, the new wine and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites and the singers and the gatekeepers and the heave offerings for the priests.
⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after certain days I asked leave of the king, ⁷ and I came to Jerusalem and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
⁸ And it grieved me greatly. Therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. ⁹ Then I commanded and they cleansed the chambers. And there I brought again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
¹⁰ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field. ¹¹ Then I contended with the rulers and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place. ¹² Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries.
¹³ And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe and of the Levites, Pedaiah and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah. For they were counted faithful and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

²¹ that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and that I may fill their treasuries.

⁶ Much treasure is in the house of a righteous man, but in the revenues of a wicked man is trouble.

¹⁵ There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

²⁰ There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of a wise man, but a foolish man swallows it up.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your flocks and look well to your herds. ²⁴ Because riches are not everlasting. And does the crown endure to all generations?
²⁵ The hay is carried and the tender grass shows itself and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in. ²⁶ The lambs are for your clothing and the goats are the cost of the field. ²⁷ And then will be goats' milk enough for your food; for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.

⁵² Now he said to them, Because of this, every scribe who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of the heavens is similar to a man who is a householder, who casts forth out of his treasure, new and old things.

⁷ They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion.

¹⁴ Counsel is mine and sound-wisdom. I am understanding; I have might.

²⁹ The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of wickedness.

²² A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the strength of the confidence of it.

¹⁹ Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

¹⁴ There was a little city and few men within it. And there came a great king against it and besieged it and built great ramparts against it. ¹⁵ Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And hedelivered the city by his wisdom, yet no man remembered that same poor man. ¹⁶ Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
¹⁷ The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

³¹ But those who wait for Jehovah will renew their strength. They will mount up with pinions like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint.

¹¹ being empowered in all power, according to the dominion of his glory, for all endurance and patience with joy,

¹⁴ Where no wise guidance is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

²² Where there is no counsel, plans are disappointed, but they are established in the multitude of counselors.

¹⁸ Every purpose is established by counsel and make war with wise guidance.

³¹ Or what king, while traveling to encounter a different king in war, has not sit down first and plans if he is able at ten-thousand to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

²⁵ But everyone who struggles in the race exercises self-control in all things. Therefore indeed, those men do it in order that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we receive an incorruptible crown. \ulnone\nosupersub ²⁶ Now-then, I run so, as not with uncertainty. I am combating so, as not just whipping the air; ²⁷ but I am buffeting my body and enslaving it; lest somehow after having preached to others, I myself might become unapproved.

¹⁰ Furthermore, my brethren, be empowered in the Lord and in the dominion of his strength. ¹¹ Clothe yourselves with the full-armor of God, that you may be able to stand up to the schemes of the devil. ¹² Because the wrestling in us is not with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world dominions of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual ones of wickedness in the heavenly places. \ulnone\nosupersub ¹³ Because of this, take up the full-armor of God, in order that you may be able to stand against the devil in the evil day, and to stand straight, having worked against all things. ¹⁴ Therefore stand, having girded your loins in truth and having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having tied the feet with the readiness of the good-news of peace. ¹⁶ Upon all these things, when you have taken up the shield of the faith, in which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one; \ulnone\nosupersub ¹⁷ also able to accept the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ through all prayer and supplication praying in all seasons in the Spirit and watching in this same thing in all perseverance and supplication concerning all the holy-ones. ¹⁹ And pray on my behalf, in order that the word may be given to me, in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news in boldness, ²⁰ on behalf of which, I am an ambassador in a chain; in order that I should speak boldly in it, as it is essential for me to speak.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue: righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith, grab the everlasting life, to which you were called and professed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

⁷ I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have kept the faith.

⁴ His sons are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁷ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.
⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves and the aged rose up and stood. ⁹ The rulers refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth. ¹⁰ The voice of the ranking men was hushed and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him. ¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴ I put on righteousness and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy and I searched out the case of he whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
¹⁸ Then I said, I will die in my nest and I will multiply my days as the sand. ¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters and the dew lays all night upon my limb s. ²⁰ My glory is fresh in me and my bow is renewed in my hand.
²¹ To me men gave ear and waited and kept silence for my counsel. ²² After my words they spoke not again and my speech distilled upon them. ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence and they did not cast down the light of my countenance. ²⁵ I chose out their way and sat as chief and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

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

⁵ His ways are profane at all times. Your judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

⁵ How great are your works, O Jehovah! Your thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A stupid man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

²⁴ To the wise man the way of life is upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

²⁴ Wisdom is before the face of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

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

⁸ Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. ⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously and minister justice to the poor and needy.

²¹ who make a man an offender in his cause and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

¹⁰ They hate he who reproves in the gate and they abhor he who speaks uprightly.

¹² For I know how great are your* transgressions and how mighty are your* sins–you* who afflict the just man, who take a bribe and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁴ Now the physical man is not accepting the things from the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually examined.

⁴⁴ The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the evil which your heart has known, what you did to David my father. Therefore Jehovah will return your evil upon your own head.

¹¹ Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

²² Do they not go-astray, those who devise evil? But mercy and truth are to those who devise good.

² Because their heart meditates oppression and their lips talk of mischief.

⁹ The thought of folly is sin. And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

⁷ However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For he says, Are not my rulers all of them kings? ⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, ¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
¹² Therefore it will happen, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.
¹³ For he has said, I have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

¹⁰ The lord Jehovah says thus: It will happen in that day, that things will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan.
¹¹ And you will say, I will go up to the land of un-walled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates,

¹¹ He has gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Jehovah, who counsels wickedness.

³⁰ slandering, spiteful to God, insolent, haughty, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again kill* everything living, as I have done.

¹¹³ I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love your law.

¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer and contention will go out, yes, strife and reproach will cease.

⁷ Because as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁸ Scoffers breathe against a city, but wise men turn away wrath.

⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to Jehovah and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

²⁸ But I say to you, that everyone who is looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁴ And Jesus, having seen their contemplations said, Why are you contemplating evil in your hearts?

¹⁹ For out of the heart comes forth evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

²² Therefore repent from this, your malice, and beseech God; if, then, the deliberation of your heart will be forgiven to you.

⁵ demolishing evil reasonings and every exalted thing which is lifting itself up against the knowledge of God and capturing every device of the Adversary to the obedience of the Christ;

¹ And David said in his heart, I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel, so I will escape out of his hand.

⁵ But now it comes to you and you faint. It touches you and you are troubled.

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength.
³⁰ Even the youths will faint and be weary and the young men will utterly fall. ³¹ But those who wait for Jehovah will renew their strength. They will mount up with pinions like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint.

⁴⁶ And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city, in order that they might buy nourishment.

¹ Because of this, having this service, just-as we have been shown-mercy, we are not depressed.

¹³ Hence I am asking you not to be depressed at my afflictions on your behalf, which are your glory.

³ For, study the one who has endured such dispute by sinners to himself, in order that you might not be weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴ You have not yet stood against this, as far as blood, in your struggle against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, ‘My son, do not regard-lightly the disciplining of the Lord, nor be fainting when you are reproved by him.

³ and you have endurance and did bear because of my name and have not fatigued.

¹³ I know your works and where you dwell–where the Adversary’s throne is, and you are holding-fast my name and did not deny my faith in the days, in which my witness, the faithful Antipas was killed beside you, where the Adversary is dwelling.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, I beseech you, let me kill* him with the spear to the earth at one stroke and I will not kill* him the second time.
⁹ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed and be guiltless?

¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

⁴ Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver him from the hand of the wicked man.

⁶ Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke and to let the oppressed go free and that you* break every yoke? ⁷ Is it not to deal your bread to a hungry man and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house, when you see a naked man, that you cover him and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

³¹ But by coincidence, a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he evaded him. ³² Now likewise, a Levite also happened to be in the place, when he came and saw him, he evaded him too.

²³ But they were urgently asking with loud voices for him to be crucified. And their voices and those of the high-priests were prevailing. ²⁴ But Pilate decided their request was to happen. ²⁵ Now he released the one who has been cast into the prison because of riot and murder, whom they were asking for, but he gave up Jesus to their will.

¹⁷ Now all the Greeks grabbed Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and were beating him before the judicial-seat. And Gallio was not about to judge anything.

³¹ But while seeking to kill him, information came up to the commander of the cohort, that the whole Jerusalem has been incited to riot. ³² Who promptly, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And those who saw the commander and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.

¹⁰ Now when much dissension happened, the commander, being scared, lest Paul might be torn to shreds by them, commanded the army to go down and seize him from the midst of them, and lead him back into the encampment.

²³ And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, that they should travel to Caesarea, ²⁴ and animals to be present, that having mounted Paul upon one of them, they might save him for Felix the governor.
²⁵ Now he wrote a letter in this pattern containing:
²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the most-excellent governor Felix. Hail to you. ²⁷ When this man was taken by the Jews and being about to be assassinated by them, I stood up together with the soldiers and liberated him, having learned that he was a Roman. ²⁸ But planning to know the accusation (because of which they were accusing him), I led him into their council; ²⁹ whom I found to be accused concerning debates of their law, but having nothing in way of an accusation worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ But when it was divulged to me of a future pact by the Jews for the man, I promptly sent him to you, having also commanded his accusers to speak the things to him in front of you. Good-bye.
³¹ Therefore indeed, the soldiers, according to what had been commanded to them, took Paul and led him through the night to Antipatris. ³² But on the next-day, having permitted the horsemen to travel together with him, they returned to the encampment, ³³ who, having entered into Caesarea, and having given over the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him. ³⁴ Now the governor read the letter and having asked: What province is he from? And having inquired: he is from Cilicia. ³⁵ He was saying, I will hear you fully whenever your accusers have also come. And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s palace.

¹⁶ We have known love in this, because that man laid down his life on our behalf and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brethren. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

⁶ Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For Jehovah sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.

²⁹ And though men have risen up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God. And the souls of your enemies, them he will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

¹¹ For the work of a man he will render to him and cause every man to find according to his ways.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked man come to an end, but establish the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

³ You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

²¹ will not God search this out? Because he knows the secrets of the heart.

¹² Also to you, O Lord, belongs loving kindness, because you render to every man according to his work.

⁹ who holds our soul in life and does not allow our feet to slip.

³ He will not allow your foot to slip. He who keeps you will not slumber.

⁸ Jehovah will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and everlasting.

²¹ Because the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah and he makes level all his paths.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Jehovah weighs the hearts.

⁸ If you see the oppression of a poor man and the violent robbery of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. Because a man higher than the high is observing and there are higher men than they.

¹⁰ I, Jehovah, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his practices.

¹⁹ great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his practices,

²³ but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand your breath is and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

²⁷ For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers, and then he will be giving to each one according to his practice.

²⁸ For we live and move and are in him; as some also, according to your own poets, have said, For we are also his offspring.

⁶ who will ‘repay to each according to his works.’

¹⁶ in the day when God will be judging the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my teaching of the good-news.

⁵ So-then, do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both be illuminating the hidden things of darkness and will be manifesting the plans of the hearts, and then the praise from God will happen for each.

¹⁰ For it is essential for all of us to appear before the judicial-seat of the Christ; in order that each one may get back the things done in the body, for what he practiced, whether good or evil.

¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond that of any two edged sword and is penetrating till the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and is a judge of the contemplations and deliberations of the heart. ¹³ And there is no created thing unapparent in his sight, but all things are naked and have been laid-bare to his eyes to whom is our account.

¹⁸ and the Living One, and I became dead and behold, I am living forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Amen.

¹⁸ And write to the messenger of the congregation in Thyatira:
The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are similar to polished brass says these things:

²³ And I will be killing her children with death, and all the congregations will know that I am he who is searching the kidneys and hearts and I will be giving to you, each one according to your works.

¹² And I saw the dead, the greatest and the least, standing in the sight of the throne, and books were opened and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged out of the things which have been written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them and they were judged each one according to their works. ¹⁴ And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, which is the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone was not found, having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

¹² Behold, I am coming shortly, and my reward is with me, to give to each one as his work will be.

¹⁰ They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

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

¹⁶ Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you are filled with it and vomit it.

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

¹¹ Your lips, O my bride, drop the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

¹ I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends. Drink, yes. Drink abundantly, O beloved.

¹⁵ Butter and honey will he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

⁴ Now John himself had his outer clothing made of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his loin, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.

¹⁰ They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. ¹¹ Moreover by them your servant is warned. There is great reward in keeping them.

¹¹¹ I have taken your testimonies as a heritage everlasting, because they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¹ My son, if you will receive my words and lay up my commandments with you, ² so as to incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, ³ because, if you cry after discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, ⁴ if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then you will understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.

¹⁰ Because wisdom will enter into your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul,

¹³ The man who finds wisdom is fortunate, and the man who gets understanding. ¹⁴ Because the gain of it is better than the gain of silver and the profit of it than fine gold. ¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies and none of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And everyone who retains her is fortunate.

¹⁸ Because it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if they are established together upon your lips.

¹⁸ Because surely there is a reward and your hope will not be cut off.

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

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you are willing to be complete, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come-here. Follow me.

²⁵ But he who has peered into the complete law, the law of freedom, and has remained in it, this one, having not become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of works, this one will be fortunate in his doing.

¹¹ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water and said to them, Is the seer here?

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

²⁰ Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down and our part will be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
²¹ And Saul said, You* are blessed of Jehovah, for you* have had compassion on me. ²² Go, I beseech you*, make yet more sure and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he deals very shrewdly.
²³ See therefore and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself and come you* again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you* and it will happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

⁸ He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. He murders the innocent man in the covert places. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. ⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his covering. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰ He crouches, he bows down and helpless men fall by his strong men.

³² A wicked man watches a righteous man and seeks to kill him.

⁶ They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.

³ Because behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

²⁸ Do not remove the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

¹⁸ And my people will abide in a peaceable habitation and in safe dwellings and in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.

⁴ and they counseled together in order that they might take-hold of Jesus with treachery, and might kill him.

²⁴ but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night that they might assassinate him.

¹⁶ But Paul’s sister’s son, having heard of their murderous plot, came and entered into the encampment and reported to Paul.

³ asking for a favor against him, that he might send for him to come to Jerusalem; making a plot to assassinate him on the road.

¹⁰ And David said, As Jehovah lives, Jehovah will kill* him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles. Yes, in seven there will no evil touch you.

¹⁶ His mischief will return upon his own head and his violence will come down upon his own scalp.

¹⁹ The afflictions of the righteous are many, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

²⁴ Because if he falls, he will not be utterly cast down, because Jehovah upholds him with his hand.

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up and pluck you out of your tent and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.

³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

¹⁴ The man who fears always is fortunate, but he who hardens his heart will fall into mischief.
¹⁵ A roaring lion and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
¹⁶ The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.
¹⁷ A man who is laden with the blood of any person will flee to the pit. Let no man hold him.
¹⁸ He who walks uprightly will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall at once.

² The virgin of Israel has fallen; she will no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria and say, As your god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beer-sheba lives, they will fall and never rise up again.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light to me.
⁹ I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light and I will behold his righteousness.
¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will see my desire upon her. Now she will be trodden down as the mud of the streets.

²³ But instantly a messenger of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory and he expired, having become maggot-eaten.

⁸ For brethren, we do not wish you to be ignorant in regard to our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened down surpassingly, beyond our power, so-that we despaired even to be living. ⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing us.

⁸ We are being pressed in everything, but not distressed; being perplexed, but not despairing; ⁹ being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not being destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying around in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are habitually given up to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So-then indeed, death is working in us, but life in you.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, as if having insanity) I am beyond them : in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five-times, I received forty lashes beside one from the Jews. ²⁵ I was lashed with rods three-times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three-times. I have spent a night and a day in the depth of the sea; ²⁶ often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils by false brethren; ²⁷ in labor and hardship, often in sleeplessness, in famine and thirst, often in fasts, in cold and nakedness.

³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.

²⁰ Be joyous over her: heaven and the holy-ones and the apostles and the prophets, because God has judged your condemnation from her
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²¹ And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never be found anymore.

²⁵ And it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may be amusing to us. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars.

⁵ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, cursing as he came. ⁶ And he cast stones at David and at all the servants of king David and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
⁷ And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, you man of blood and worthless fellow. ⁸ Jehovah has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead you have reigned. And Jehovah has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son, and behold, you are taken in your own mischief because you are a man of blood.
⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, I beseech you and take off his head. ¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you*, you* sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses and because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David, who then will say, Why have you done so?
¹¹ And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came out from my guts, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite? Let him alone and let him curse, for Jehovah has bidden him. ¹² It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done to me and that Jehovah will reward me good for his cursing of me this day.
¹³ So David and his men went by the way and Shimei went along on the hill-side opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and cast dust. ¹⁴ And the king and all the people who were with him, came weary and he refreshed himself there.

²⁹ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. The slayers gathered themselves together against me and I did not know it. They tore me and ceased not.

¹⁹ Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

⁵ He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity will not be unpunished.

¹² But do not look on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.

⁶ It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices together with the truth. ⁷ It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken and will make yourself naked.
²² The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.

¹⁵ And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease. For I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction.
¹⁶ Therefore Jehovah says thus: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house will be built in it, says Jehovah of hosts and a line will be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I beseech you*, from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you* are consumed in all their sins.

¹ The man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers is fortunate,

⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with pretenders. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you* evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

¹ Do not be envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.

¹⁷ Hence ‘Come out from the midst of them and be separate,’says the Lord, ‘And touch no unclean thing, and I will accept you\super\'b0

¹¹ And have no fellowship together with the unfruitful works of darkness, but also rather reprove them;

² For men will be lovers of themselves, money-lovers, braggarts, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ cold-hearted, implacable, slanderers, with no self-control, untamed, not lovers of good, ⁴ betrayers, rash, having been puffed up, loving sensual-delights rather than loving God; ⁵ holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Now turn yourself away from these people.

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, in order that you might not have fellowship together in her sins and in order that you might not receive out of her wounds, ⁵ Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out and the spark of his fire will not shine. ⁶ The light will be dark in his tent and his lamp above him will be put out.

¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger,

¹⁷ Wicked men will be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

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

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

²⁰ He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in blackness of darkness.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done will be done to him.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁸ Now the foolish said to the prudent, Give us some oil from your oil, because our lamps are quenched.

¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames, misleading stars–for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

³¹ And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared Jehovah and they believed in Jehovah and in his servant Moses.

¹ Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took, ² and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown, ³ and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, You* take too much upon you*, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you* lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah?

⁵ And they said to him, Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
⁶ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah.
⁷ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

¹² And when you* saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you*, you* said to me, No, but a king will reign over us, when Jehovah your* God was your* king.
¹³ Now therefore behold the king whom you* have chosen and whom you* have asked for. And behold, Jehovah has set a king over you*. ¹⁴ If you* will fear Jehovah and serve him and listen to his voice and not rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then both you* and also the king who reigns over you* will be followers of Jehovah your* God. ¹⁵ But if you* will not listen to the voice of Jehovah, but rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then the hand of Jehovah will be against you* as it was against your* fathers.
¹⁶ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Jehovah will do before your* eyes. ¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to Jehovah that he may send thunder and rain and you* will know and see that your* wickedness is great, which you* have done in the sight of Jehovah in asking a king for you*.
¹⁸ So Samuel called to Jehovah and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Jehovah your God that we not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask a king for us.

⁶ And he said to his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Jehovah's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is Jehovah's anointed.

¹³ And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
¹⁴ And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise and let us flee, for otherwise none of us will escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down evil upon us and kill* the city with the edge of the sword. ¹⁵ And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king will choose.
¹⁶ And the king went forth and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
¹⁷ And the king went forth and all the people after him and they remained in the distant house. ¹⁸ And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
¹⁹ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why do you also go with us? Return and abide with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. ²⁰ You came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? Return and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.
²¹ And Ittai answered the king and said, As Jehovah lives and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king will be, whether for death or for life, even there your servant will also be. ²² And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all the little ones that were with him.
²³ And all the country wept with a loud voice and all the people passed over. The king himself also passed over the brook Kidron and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.
²⁴ And behold, Zadok also came and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God and Abiathar went up until all the people had finished passing out of the city.
²⁵ And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I will find favor in the eyes of Jehovah he will bring me again and show me both it and his habitation. ²⁶ But if he says thus, I have no delight in you, behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.
²⁷ The king said also to Zadok the priest, Are you not a seer? Return into the city in peace and your* two sons with you*, Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. ²⁸ See, I will remain at the fords of the wilderness until there comes word from you* to report to me. ²⁹ Therefore Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem and they abode there.
³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives and wept as he went up and he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered every man his head and they went up, weeping as they went up.
³¹ And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I beseech you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
³² And it happened, that, when David came to the top of the ascent, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt upon his head.
³³ And David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me, ³⁴ but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so I will now be your servant, then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
³⁵ And have you not there with you Zadok and Abiathar the priests? Therefore it will be, that whatever thing you will hear out of the king's house, you will tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. ³⁶ Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son and Jonathan, Abiathar's son. And you* will send by them to me everything that you* will hear. ³⁷ So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your* tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

² I say, Keep the king's command and that because of the oath of God. ³ Do not be hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, because he does whatever pleases him. ⁴ For the king's word has power and who may say to him, What are you doing? ⁵ He who keeps a commandment will know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.

²¹ They say to him, Caesar’s. Then he says to them, Therefore give to Caesar, the things which are Caesar’s, and to God, the things which are God’s.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the authorities which are superior to him; for there is no authority if not by God, and the authorities which are, have been appointed by God. ² So-then, the one who is resisting the authority is standing against the commandment of God, and those who are standing against it will be receiving judgment for themselves. ³ For rulers are not a fear to those of the good works, but to those of the evil works. And you do not wish to be afraid of the authority, do you? Do what is the good thing and you will have praise from it; ⁴ for he is a servant of God to you for what is the good thing. But if you practice what is the evil thing, be afraid; for he is not wearing the sword vainly; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one who is practicing the evil thing. ⁵ Hence, it is a necessity to be subject yourself to him, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience. ⁶ For you are also paying taxes because of this; for they are ministers of God, persevering toward this same thing. ⁷ Therefore give to all, their dues: tribute to whom tribute; tax to whom tax; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

¹ Remind them to subject themselves to principalities and authorities, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work,

¹³ Therefore be subject to every human creation because of the Lord: whether to the king, as being superior to you; ¹⁴ or to governors, as they are sent through him for vengeance on evildoers and praise to the doers of good. ¹⁵ Because so is the will of God, doing good things to hush the ignorance of foolish men; ¹⁶ as free and yet not having your freedom as a cover-up of malice, but as bondservants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all men. Love^*\'b0 the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

³¹ And it happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and all the men that pertained to Korah and all their goods. ³³ So they and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the assembly.
³⁴ And all Israel that were all around them fled at the cry of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. ³⁵ And fire came out from Jehovah and devoured the two hundred and fifty men who offered the incense.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went severely against Saul and the archers overtook him and he was greatly distressed because of the archers.
⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.
⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died with him. ⁶ So Saul died and his three sons and his armor bearer and all his men, that same day together.
⁷ And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled. And the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

⁷ And the people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. ⁸ For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

¹⁶ And the sons of Israel fled before Judah and God delivered them into their hand. ¹⁷ And Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter. So there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger and your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹⁴ The wrath of a king is messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

² The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.

¹⁰ Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities and your judges, of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers? ¹¹ I have given you a king in my anger and have taken him away in my wrath.

¹⁵ You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment. You will not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but you will judge your neighbor in righteousness.

¹⁷ You* will not respect persons in judgment. You* will hear the small and the great alike. You* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you* you* will bring to me and I will hear it.

¹⁹ You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of Jehovah be upon you*. Take heed and do it. For there is no unrighteousness with Jehovah our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

² How long will you* judge unjustly and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.
³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man. ⁴ Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver him from the hand of the wicked man.

⁴³ He who is wise will give heed to these things and they will consider the loving kindnesses of Jehovah.

⁶ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

⁵ To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, nor to turn aside a righteous man in judgment.

¹⁷ Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise and apply your heart to my knowledge.

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good, nor that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

¹ Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine and the hardness of his face is changed.

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.

²⁴ Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

²⁰ Reprove those who are sinning in the sight of all, in order that the rest may also have fear. ²¹ I am thoroughly testifying in sight of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the chosen messengers, in order that you should observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to bias.

⁴ And did you not discern among yourselves and then became judges from evil reasonings?
⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren. Did God not choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have dishonored the poor. Are the rich not oppressing you? And are they themselves not dragging you into the courts?

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, thereafter is peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended.

¹⁷ And if you call upon the Father, who impartially judges according to the work of each one, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your foreign residency here;

⁶ You will not distort the justice due to your poor in his case.
⁷ Keep far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, because I will not justify a wicked man.

²⁶ The people will curse he who withholds grain, but a blessing will be upon the head of him who sells it.

¹⁵ He who justifies a wicked man and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many a curse.

¹⁰ Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you and you are held guilty.

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

²³ who justify the wicked for rewards and take away the justice of the righteous man from him!

²⁴ And they will go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched and they will be an abhorring to all flesh.

¹³ For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. ¹⁴ They have also lightly healed the hurt of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

¹⁰ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. ¹¹ And they have lightly healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

²² Because with lies you* have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive.

¹⁷ You will not hate your brother in your heart. You will surely rebuke your neighbor and not bear sin because of him.

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house everlasting, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not restrain them.

¹⁹ And you will speak to him, saying, Jehovah says thus, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you will speak to him, saying, Jehovah says thus, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth will dogs lick your blood, even your.
²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah.

⁷ Then I consulted with myself and contended with the ranking men and the rulers and said to them, You* exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations and would you* even sell your* brothers and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found not a word.
⁹ Also I said, The thing that you* do is not good. Ought you* not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

⁸ And it grieved me greatly. Therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. ⁹ Then I commanded and they cleansed the chambers. And there I brought again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
¹⁰ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field. ¹¹ Then I contended with the rulers and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.

¹⁷ Then I contended with the ranking men of Judah and said to them, What evil thing is this that you* do and profane the Sabbath day?

²⁵ And I contended with them and cursed them and killed* certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God, saying, You* will not give your* daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your* sons, or for yourselves.

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

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy and I searched out the case of he whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
¹⁸ Then I said, I will die in my nest and I will multiply my days as the sand.

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

⁴ For John said to him, It is not legal for you to have her.

²⁰ Reprove those who are sinning in the sight of all, in order that the rest may also have fear.

² Preach the word. Stand-ready opportunely and inopportunely. Reprove, rebuke and encourage in all patience and teaching.

¹³ This testimony is true. Because of which case, reprove them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ Speak and encourage and reprove these things with every commandment. Let no one despise you.

³⁸ And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you. ⁴⁰ You will be over my house and according to your word all my people will be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
⁴² And Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph's hand and arrayed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. ⁴³ And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him, Bow the knee. And he set him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh and without you no man will lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶ And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh King of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
⁴⁷ And the earth brought out by handfuls in the seven plenteous years. ⁴⁸ And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt and laid up the food in the cities. The food of the field, which was all around every city, he laid up in the same. ⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, because it was without number.
⁵⁰ And two sons were born to Joseph before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On, bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, because God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house. ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim, because God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
⁵³ And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. ⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, just-as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you*, do.
⁵⁶ And the famine was over all the face of the earth. And Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe on all the earth.

²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your* reproof, what does it reprove?

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

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

¹¹ A timely word spoken is apples of gold in a lattice-work of silver.
¹² An earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is reproving a wise one upon an obedient ear.

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

¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and give to God the things which are God’s. And they marveled at him.


¹⁸ And the Sadducees come to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him, saying,

³² And the scribe said to him, In truth, Teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is no other except him; ³³ and to love him from the whole heart and from the whole intelligence and from the whole soul and from the whole strength and to love his neighbor like himself, is more-than all the whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
³⁴ And when Jesus saw that he answered with perception, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one was daring enough to ask him anymore.

¹⁷ And the king commanded and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with shaped stone. ¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites fashioned them and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

⁷ And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone made ready at the quarry. And there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.

²⁸ For which out of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, if he has the means toward its realization? ²⁹ Lest, when he has laid a foundation and is not strong-enough to complete, all who view it may begin to mock him, ³⁰ saying, This one began to build and was not strong-enough to complete.

¹⁶ You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹ You will not take up a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

⁹ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. ¹⁰ And he inquired of Jehovah for him and gave him food and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

⁹ And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. ¹⁰ And set two men, worthless fellows, before him and let them bear witness against him, saying, You cursed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him to death.
¹¹ And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, just-as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. ¹² They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people.
¹³ And the two men, the worthless fellows, came in and sat before him. And the worthless fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

⁷ Because without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I do not know.

¹ Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes-out lies.

⁵ A false witness will not be unpunished and he who breathes-out lies will not escape.

⁹ A false witness will not be unpunished and he who breathes-out lies will perish.

²⁸ A false witness will perish, but the man who hears will speak so as to endure.

¹⁸ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow.

⁵⁹ Now the high-priests and the elders and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus, how they might slay him; ⁶⁰ and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came. Still, they did not find any.

²³ But the governor said, For what evil has he done?
But they were crying out even-more, saying, Let him be crucified!

²⁵ But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’

²⁵ Hence, placing all the lying away from yourselves, speak, each one the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

⁹ Do not lie to one another; since you have stripped off the old man together with his practices,

⁸ But to the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and detestable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and to all the false witnesses, their part will be in the lake which is burning with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

¹⁵ The dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie are outside.

¹¹ Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

²² And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
²³ And it happened after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim and Absalom invited all the king's sons. ²⁴ And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, your servant has sheep-shearers. Let the king, I beseech you and his servants go with your servant. ²⁵ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we are burdensome to you. And he pressed him. However he would not go, but blessed him.
²⁶ Then Absalom said, If not, I beseech you, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with you? ²⁷ But Absalom pressed him and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
²⁸ And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Notice you* now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine and when I say to you*, Strike Amnon, then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you*? Be courageous and be valiant.

²² Do not say, I will recompense evil. Wait for Jehovah and he will save you.

²¹ If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. ²² Because you will heap coals of fire upon his head and Jehovah will reward you.

³⁹ But I am saying to you, Not to stand against an evil man, but who ever slaps you upon your right jaw, turn also the other to him. ⁴⁰ And to him, who is willing to have a lawsuit against you and wants to take away your tunic, then also allow for him to take your^\'b0 outer garment. ⁴¹ And who ever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. ⁴² Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away from the one who wishes to borrow from you. ⁴³ You have heard that it was said, ‘You will love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I am saying to you, Love^*\'b0 your enemies, speak well of those who curse you, do good things to those who hate you and pray on behalf of those who are railing at you and are persecuting you.

¹⁷ Repay to no one evil in exchange-for evil. Plan-for good things in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, what is from you should be at peace with all men.
¹⁹ Beloved, do not be avenging yourselves, but give a chance for the wrath of God; for it has been written, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying, says the Lord.’ ²⁰ Therefore, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for while doing this, you will be piling up hot-coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁵ See that not anyone repays evil in exchange-for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both toward one another and toward all.

⁸ According to what I have seen, those who plow wickedness and sow trouble, reap the same.

²⁷ Behold this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it and know it for your good.

¹⁷ I will show you. Hear me and what I have seen I will declare,

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

⁴² The upright will see it and be glad. And all unrighteousness will stop her mouth.

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. ⁷ Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, ¹¹ so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
¹² A worthless person, a man of wickedness, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, ¹³ who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers, ¹⁴ in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord. ¹⁵ Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. Suddenly he will be broken and that without remedy.
¹⁶ There are six things which Jehovah hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to him: ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ a false witness who breathes-out lies and he who sows discord among brothers.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

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

¹¹ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.

¹ Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.
² Therefore I praised the dead who have long been dead more than the living who are yet alive. ³ Yes, better than them both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
⁴ Then I saw all labor and every skillful work, that a man is envied for this by his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
⁵ The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
⁶ Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.
⁷ Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. ⁸ There is one man who is alone and he has not a second, yes, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. And he says, whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yes, it is a great task.

¹⁵ All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

⁹ All this I have seen and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
¹⁰ So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you have obeyed the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You will not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake. You will eat of it in toil all the days of your life.
¹⁸ Also, it will bring forth thorns and thistles to you and you will eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ You will eat bread by the sweat of your face, till you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken. For you are dust and you will return to dust.

⁴⁰ let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockle instead of barley.
The words of Job are ended.

²³ The fear of Jehovah is life to a man and he will abide satisfied. He will not be visited with evil.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he will beg in harvest and have nothing.

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I will be slain in the streets.

²¹ Because the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

¹⁸ The roof sinks in by slothfulness and the house leaks through idleness of the hands.

⁵ And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down.

³ For Jehovah says thus to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your* tillable ground and sow not among thorns.

⁷ Now others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns shot up and choked them.

²² And he who was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age and the deception of riches, choke the word and he becomes unfruitful.

⁸ But when it is bringing forth thorns and thistles, it is unapproved and near to a curse; whose end is for burning.

¹¹ And all Israel will hear and fear and will no more do any such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

²¹ And all the men of his city will stone him to death with stones. So you will put away the evil from the midst of you and all Israel will hear and fear.

²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

¹⁷ What is man, that you should magnify him and that you should set your mind upon him,

⁴ Stand in awe and do not sin. Speak with your* own heart upon your* bed and be still. Selah.

¹⁹ But Mary was keeping all these words to herself, pondering them in her heart.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was being subject to them and his mother was keeping all these words in her heart.

⁶ Now these things became our examples, that we should not be desirers of evil things, just-as they also lusted.

¹¹ Now all these things are examples which were befalling to those Jews, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have arrived.

⁵ But I plan to remind you, though you knowing this once for all, that the Lord, having saved people out of the land of Egypt, destroyed those who did not believe the second-time. ⁶ And the messengers who did not keep to their own principality, but having left their own house, he has kept to the judgment of the great day in eternal bonds under blackness. ⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in a similar manner with these, having indulged in fornication and having gone after different flesh, are laying before us as an example, being held under the sentence of everlasting fire.

⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. ⁷ Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, ¹¹ so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

¹¹ Also this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour to be raised from sleep; for our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

¹⁴ Hence he says, Arise, you who are sleeping and rise up from the dead and the Christ will appear upon you.

⁶ Therefore consequently, we should not sleep, like the rest also do, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But we, being of the day, should be sober; having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet-- the hope of salvation.

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

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.