Proverbs 21 Cross References - MSTC

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like as are the rivers of water; he may turn it whithersoever he will. ² Every man thinketh his own way to be right; but the LORD judgeth the hearts. ³ To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. ⁴ A presumptuous look, a proud stomach, and the plowing of the ungodly is sin. ⁵ The devices of one that is diligent, bring plenteousness; but he that is unadvised, cometh to poverty. ⁶ Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death. ⁷ The robberies of the ungodly shall be their own destruction; for they would not do the thing that was right. ⁸ The ways of the froward are strange; but the works of him that is clean, are right. ⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ¹⁰ The soul of the ungodly wisheth evil; and hath no pity upon his neighbour. ¹¹ When the scornful is punished, the ignorant take the better heed; and when a wise man is warned, he will receive the more understanding. ¹² The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; and for their wickedness, God overthroweth the ungodly. ¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard. ¹⁴ A privy reward pacifieth displeasure; and a gift in the bosom stilleth furiousness. ¹⁵ The just delighteth in doing the thing that is right, but the workers of wickedness abhor the same. ¹⁶ The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom, shall remain in the congregation of the dead. ¹⁷ He that hath pleasure in banquets, shall be a poor man; Whoso delighteth in wine and delicates, shall not be rich. ¹⁸ The ungodly shall be given for the righteous; and the wicked for the just. ¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman. ²⁰ In a wise man's house there is great treasure and plenteousness; but a foolish body spendeth up all. ²¹ Whoso followeth righteousness and mercy, findeth both life, righteousness and honour. ²² A wise man winneth the city of the mighty; and as for the strength that they trust in, he bringeth it down. ²³ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue; the same keepeth his soul from troubles. ²⁴ He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously. ²⁵ The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour. ²⁶ He coveteth and desireth all the day long; but the righteous is always giving and keepeth nothing back. ²⁷ The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness. ²⁸ A false witness shall perish; but he that will be content to hear, shall always have power to speak himself. ²⁹ An ungodly man goeth forth rashly; but the just reformeth his own way. ³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD. ³¹ The horse is prepared against the day of battle; but the LORD giveth the victory.

²² and held the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them glad, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, so that their hands were strengthened in the work of the house of God, which is the God of Israel.

²⁷ Praised be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath so inspired the king's heart, to garnish the house of God at Jerusalem: ²⁸ and hath inclined his mercy unto me in the presence of the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's high estates. And I was comforted, according to the hand of the LORD my God over me, and so gathered I the heads of Israel together, that they might go up with me.

¹¹ O LORD, let thine ears mark the prayer of thy servant, and the prayer of thy servants, whose desire is to fear thy name; and let thy servant prosper this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's butler."

⁴ Then said the king unto me, "What, then, is thy request?" Then made I my prayer to the God of heaven,

¹⁵ Thou bringest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks; thou driest up mighty rivers.

⁴ The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; but yet the LORD that dwelleth on high is mightier.

²⁵ whose heart turned so, that they hated his people, and dealt untruly with his servants.

⁴⁶ yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them.

³ The sea saw that, and fled, Jordan turned back.

⁵ What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? And thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

¹ A man may well purpose a thing in his heart; but the answer of the tongue cometh of the LORD.

⁹ A man deviseth a way in his heart; but it is the LORD that ordereth his goings.

²⁴ The LORD ordereth every man's goings; for what is he, that understandeth his own way?

¹⁹ Behold, I shall make a new thing, and shortly shall it appear. Ye shall well know it; I told it you afore, but I will tell it you again. I will make streets in the desert, and rivers of water in the wilderness.

²⁷ I say to the ground, "Be dry," and I dry up thy water floods.

³⁵ in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?'

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his adversities, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; which made him governor over Egypt, and over all his household.

⁴ And the third angel shed out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, and they turned to blood.

¹² And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water dried up, that the ways of the kings of the east should be prepared.

⁷ But the LORD said unto Samuel, "Look not on his fashion nor on the height of his stature, for I have refused him. Because it is not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance: but the LORD beholdeth the heart."

² For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abominable sin be found out.

² A man thinketh all his ways to be clean; but it is the LORD that fashioneth the minds.

²⁵ There is a way that men think to be right; but the end thereof leadeth unto death.

⁶ Many there be that would be called good-doers; but where shall one find a true faithful man?

¹² If thou wilt say, "I knew not of it"; Thinkest thou that he which made the hearts, doth not consider it? And that he which regardeth thy soul, seeth it not? Shall not he recompense every man according to his works?

¹² The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.

¹⁰ "Even I the LORD search out the ground of the heart, and try the reins, and reward every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his counsels."

¹⁵ and he said unto them, "Ye are they, which justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abominable in the sight of God.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or as this publican. ¹² I fast twice in the week. I give tithe of all that I possess.'

²⁴ but Jesus put not himself in their hands, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and needed not that any man should testify of him. For he knew what was in man.

³ If any man seem to himself that he is somewhat, when indeed he is nothing, the same deceiveth himself in his imagination.

²² And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

²³ And I will kill her children with death. And all the congregations shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts. And I will give unto everyone of you according to your works.

²² Then said Samuel, "Hath the LORD as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerings, as he hath that thou shouldest obey his voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to give heed is better than the fat of rams.

⁸ I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.

⁸ The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats. ¹² When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches? ¹³ Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days. Your fastings are also in vain. ¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well. ¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD.

²¹ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Yea, heap up your burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. ²² But when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no word unto them of burnt offerings and sacrifices: ²³ but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.'

⁶ For I have pleasure in loving-kindness, and not in offering: Yea in the knowledge of God, more than in burnt sacrifice.

⁶ "What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old? ⁷ Hath the LORD a pleasure in many thousand rams, or innumerable streams of oil? Or shall I give my firstborn for mine offenses, and the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" ⁸ I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

³³ And to love him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the soul, and with all the strength. And to love a man's neighbor as himself, is a greater thing than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

⁴ The ungodly is so proud and full of indignation, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts.

¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

¹³ With me is the fear of the LORD, and the eschewing of evil. As for pride, disdain, and evil way, and a mouth that speaketh wicked things, I utterly abhor them.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.

¹³ There are people that have a proud look, and cast up their eyelids.

¹¹ which casteth down the high looks of presumptuous persons, and bringeth low the pride of man, and the LORD only shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁷ And it shall bring down the pride of man, and lay man's presumptuousness full low, and the LORD shall only have the victory in that day.

¹⁶ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Seeing the daughters of Zion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and with vain wanton eyes; seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet:

¹⁴ I tell you, This man departed home to his house justified more than the other. For every man that exalteth himself, shall be brought low: And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted."

²³ For he that maketh conscience, is damned if he eat: Because he doth it not of faith. For whatsoever is not of faith, that same is sin.

⁵ Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

⁴ An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich.

⁴ The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

²⁹ Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.

²¹ The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.

²³ See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks. ²⁴ For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever. ²⁵ The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains. ²⁶ The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry. ²⁷ Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.

²² He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

²⁸ Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you: ¹² that ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without and that nothing be lacking unto you.

³⁶ But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

² Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

¹¹ Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.

¹⁴ "It is naught; It is naught," sayeth he that buyeth anything: but when he cometh to his own house, then he boasteth of his pennyworth.

⁸ He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

⁸ Remove from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches, only grant me a necessary living.

¹¹ The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

³¹ Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel?

⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction. ¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

¹⁶ For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

¹⁶ The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah.

¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

⁶ Loving and favorable is the face of the righteous; but the forehead of the ungodly is past shame, and presumptuous.

²¹ Whoso followeth righteousness and mercy, findeth both life, righteousness and honour.

²² See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment; ²³ for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

²³ Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the LORD God of Hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah, I must ease me of mine enemies, and avenge me upon them.

⁹ For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed adultery and penury; When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods; ¹⁰ Then come ye, and stand before me in this house, which hath my name given unto it, and say 'Tush, we are absolved quite, though we have done all these abominations.' ¹¹ What? Think you this house that beareth my name, is a den of thieves? And these things are not done privily, but before mine eyes, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁵ And I shall thrust you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren the whole seed of Ephraim.

¹⁸ As for his father, because he oppressed and spoiled his brother, and did wickedly among his people: Lo, he is dead in his own sin.

¹³ Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee. ¹⁴ Is thy heart able to endure it, or may thy hands defend themselves, in the time that I shall bring upon thee? Even I the LORD that speak it, will bring it also to pass.

⁹ O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight; ¹⁰ Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong. ¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us." ¹² Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

³ Then said he unto me, 'This is the curse, that goeth forth over the whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same. ⁴ I will bring it forth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him, that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remain in his house, and consume it, with the timber and stones thereof.'

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words. For through such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief.

⁵ And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, ⁶ he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God. ³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

¹⁵ Whose ways are crooked, and their paths slanderous;

²⁶ The LORD abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked; but pure words are pleasant to him.

²⁹ Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

³ Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

¹⁰ and many shall be purified, cleansed and tried. But the ungodly shall live wickedly, and those wicked, as many as they be, shall have no understanding. As for such as have understanding, they shall regard it.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

³³ Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.

⁹ And he put no difference between them and us, but with faith purified their hearts.

³ For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?

² in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief, ³ among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.

¹⁵ Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.

¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

³ For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

⁵ not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

²² And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently: ²³ for ye are born anew, not of mortal seed, but of immortal seed, by the word of God which liveth, and lasteth forever.

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, know also that all that work righteousness, are born of him.

³ And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ A steadfast woman is a crown unto her husband; but she that behaveth herself dishonestly is a corruption in his bones.

¹⁷ Better is a mess of pottage with love; than a fat ox with evil will.

¹ Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a full house and many fat cattle with strife.

¹³ An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman.

²⁴ It is better to sit in a corner under the roof, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

¹⁵ A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together. ¹⁶ He that refraineth her, refraineth the wind, and holdeth oil fast in his hand.

⁸ ask thy lads, and they will show thee. Wherefore let these young men find favour in thine eyes — for we come in a good season — and give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants and to thine son David." ⁹ And David's young men came and told Nabal all those words in the name of David and then stopped. ¹⁰ And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every man from his master. ¹¹ Should I take my bread, my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men which I know not whence they be?"

⁴ He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

² Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor. ³ Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.

⁵ A good man is merciful, and lendeth gladly, and pondereth his words with discretion.

⁹ He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

²⁹ whereas thou hast now to give him. Intend no hurt unto thy neighbour, seeing he hopeth to dwell in rest by thee.

¹² The desire of the ungodly hunteth after mischief; but the root of the righteous bringeth forth fruit.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

⁶ But the churl will be churlishly minded, and his heart will work evil and play the hypocrite, and imagine abominations against God, to make the hungry lean, and withhold drink from the thirsty. ⁷ These are the perilous weapons of the covetous, these be his shameful counsels: that he may beguile the poor with deceitful works, yea, even there as he should give sentence with the poor. ⁸ But the liberal person imagineth honest things, and cometh up with honesty.

² But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones; ³ ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot.

²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

⁶ These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

¹³ For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

¹ From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members? ² Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness. ⁴ Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God. ⁵ Either do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "The spirit that dwelleth in you, lusteth even contrary to envy,"

⁴ Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields — which hire is of you kept back by fraud — crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world — as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods — are not of the father: but of the world.

³⁴ And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of them. For they said, "The earth might haply swallow us also."

¹¹ And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more, and such wickedness as this is, among them.

²¹ Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

⁷ But God shall suddenly shoot with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded. ⁸ Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn. ⁹ And all men that see it shall say, "This hath God done!" For they shall perceive that it is his work.

⁵ By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:

⁹ Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.

¹⁴ A wise heart will seek after knowledge; but the mouths of fools meddle with foolishness.

¹ He accompanieth himself with all steadfast and healthsome doctrine, that hath a desire to it and is sequestered from company.

¹⁵ A wise heart laboureth for knowledge; and a prudent ear seeketh understanding.

²⁵ If thou smitest a scornful person, the ignorant shall take better heed; and if thou reprovest one that hath understanding, he will be the wiser.

⁵ When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and gave up the ghost. And great fear came on all them that these things heard.

¹¹ And great fear came on all the congregation; and on as many as heard it. ¹² By the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders showed among the people. And they were all together with one accord in Solomon's porch. ¹³ And of other durst no man join himself to them: neverthelater, the people magnified them. ¹⁴ The number of them that believed in the Lord, both of men and women, grew more and more

⁶ These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted. ⁷ Neither be ye worshippers of images as were some of them according as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play." ⁸ Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed — in one day, twenty three thousand. ⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpents. ¹⁰ Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. ¹¹ All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

¹ Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish. ² For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast — so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward - ³ how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it;

²⁸ He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be counted worthy, which treadeth underfoot the son of God: and counteth the blood of the testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doth dishonour to the spirit of grace.

¹³ And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain names of men seven thousand. And the remnant were afeared, and gave glory to God of heaven.

²⁹ But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.

³ I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed,

¹⁵ He leaneth him upon his house, but he shall not stand; he holdeth him fast by it, yet shall he not endure.

¹⁴ All his comfort and hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him unto the king of fear. ¹⁵ Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. ¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his harvest be cut down. ¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets: ¹⁸ he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world. ¹⁹ He shall neither have children nor kinfolks among his people, no nor any posterity in his country: ²⁰ young and old shall be astonished at his death. ²¹ Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

²⁸ For ye say, 'Where is the prince's palace? Where is the dwelling of the ungodly? ²⁹ Ask any man that goeth by the way, and - if ye will not regard their tokens and deeds - he shall tell you, ³⁰ that the wicked is kept unto the day of destruction, and that the ungodly shall be brought forth in the day of wrath.

¹³ saying, 'This is that portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that Tyrants shall receive of the Almighty'? ¹⁴ If he get many children, they shall perish with the sword, and his posterity shall have scarceness of bread. ¹⁵ Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows. ¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay, ¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money. ¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh. ¹⁹ When the rich man dieth, he carrieth nothing with him: he is gone in the twinkling of an eye. ²⁰ Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season. ²¹ A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place. ²² It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof. ²³ Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

³⁵ I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree. ³⁶ But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.

⁵ Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁴³ Whoso is wise, and pondereth these things well, shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.

³ The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction. ⁴ Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death. ⁵ The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth the innocent in the way; but ungodliness shall overthrow the sinner.

¹¹ The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.

³² The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

⁹ Who is wise to understand these things and hath wit to perceive them? For the ways of the LORD are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the wicked shall tumble in them.

¹¹ 'Some of you have I overthrown as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: so that ye were as a brand plucked out of the fire. Yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

⁹ Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune. ¹⁰ Thou hast devised the shame of thine own house, for thou hast slain too much people, and hast willfully offended: ¹¹ so that the very stones of the wall shall cry out of it, and the timber that lieth betwixt the joints of the building shall answer. ¹² Woe unto him, that buildeth the town with blood, and maintaineth the city with unrighteousness.

⁵ But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness.

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement; ⁵ neither spared the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, overthrew them, damned them, and made of them an example unto all that after should live ungodly; ⁷ And just Lot, vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he - ⁸ For he being righteous and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds - ⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:

⁶ by the which things the world that then was perished, overflowen with the water. ⁷ But the heavens verily and earth which are now, are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

⁷ When one of thy brethren among you is waxed poor in any of thy cities within thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou harden not thine heart nor shut to thine hand from thy poor brother: ⁸ But open thine hand unto him and lend him sufficient for his need which he hath. ⁹ And beware that there be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, 'The seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand,' and therefore it grieve thee to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry unto the LORD against thee and it be sin unto thee. ¹⁰ But give him, and let it not grieve thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to. ¹¹ For the land shall never be without poor. Wherefore I command thee, saying, 'Open thine hand unto thy brother that is needy and poor in thy land.'

¹ And there arose a great complaint of the people, and of their wives, against their brethren the Jews. ² For there were some that said, "Our sons and daughters and we are too many, let us take corn for them to eat, that we may live." ³ Some said, "Let us set our lands, vineyards, and houses, to pledge, and take up corn in the dearth." ⁴ But some said, "Let us borrow money of the king's tribute for our lands and vineyards. ⁵ Now are our brethrens' bodies as our own bodies and their children as our children: else should we subdue our sons and daughters into bondage, and some of our daughters are subdued already, and no strength is there in our hands, and other men shall have our lands and vineyards."

¹³ And I shook my lap, and said, "God shake out every man after the same manner from his house and labour, that maintaineth not this word: even thus be he shaken out, and void." And all the congregation said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did so.

⁴¹ They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}

⁴ They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor, shall not want; but he that turneth away his eyes from such as be in necessity, shall suffer great poverty himself.

⁶ Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes? ⁷ Yea, and to break the bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor that are harborless unto house; and when thou seest a naked, that thou clothe him and that thou shouldest withdraw thyself from helping thine own flesh? ⁸ Then should the light break out as doth the dayspring, and then health should shortly bud out. And thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the LORD would come upon thee. ⁹ Then shouldest thou call, and the LORD answer; then shouldest thou cry, and he shall say, "Lo, here am I. For I the LORD thy God am merciful."

¹⁶ But yet ye have turned yourselves again, and blasphemed my name, in this: That every man hath required his servant and handmaid again, whom ye had letten go quit and free, and compelled them to serve you again, and to be your bondmen. ¹⁷ And therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Ye have not obeyed me, every man to proclaim freedom unto his brother and neighbour: wherefore, I will call you unto a freedom, sayeth the LORD - even unto the sword, to the pestilence, and to hunger, and will make you to be plagued in all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁹ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother. ¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart." ¹¹ Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. ¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an Adamant stone lest they should hear the law and words, which the LORD of Hosts sent in his holy spirit by the prophets afore time. Wherefore the LORD of Hosts was very wroth at them. ¹³ And thus is it come to pass, that like as he spake and they would not hear: "Even so, they cried and I would not hear, sayeth the LORD of Hosts,

¹⁴ For and if ye shall forgive other men their trespasses, your heavenly father shall also forgive you.

² For as ye judge, so shall ye be judged: and with what measure ye mete, with the same shall it be measured to you again.

³⁰ And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. ³¹ When his other fellows saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their Lord all that had happened. ³² Then his Lord called him, and said unto him, 'O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou praydest me: ³³ Was it not mete also, that thou shouldest have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee?' ³⁴ And his Lord was wroth, and delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all that was due to him. ³⁵ So like wise shall my heavenly father do unto you, except ye forgive with your hearts, each one to his brother their trespasses."

⁴¹ Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was a hungered, and ye gave me no meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me no drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me not. ⁴³ I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.' ⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or harborless, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and have not ministered unto thee?' ⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, and say, 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.' ⁴⁶ And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.

²⁵ When the good man of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door saying, 'Lord, Lord, open unto us.' And he shall answer and say unto you, 'I know you not whence ye are.'

⁵⁷ Then they gave a shout with a loud voice, and stopped their ears and all ran upon him at once,

¹³ For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. ¹⁴ What availeth it, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, when he hath no deeds? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you say unto them, "Depart in peace, God send you warmness and food," notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what helpeth it them?

²⁰ and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."

¹¹ Then their father Israel said unto them, "If it must needs be so now: then do thus, take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a courtesy balm, and a courtesy of honey, spices and myrrh, dates and almonds.

³⁵ And so David received of her hand that she brought him, and said to her, "Go in peace to thine house. And see, I have obeyed thy voice and have received thee to grace."

⁸ Liberality is a precious stone unto him that hath it; for wheresoever he becometh, he prospereth.

²³ The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.

¹⁶ Liberality bringeth a man to honour and worship, and setteth him among great men.

⁶ The multitude hangeth upon great men; and every man favoureth him that giveth rewards.

³ But when thou doest thine alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: ⁴ that thine alms may be secret: and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

⁸ that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, and hath great delight in his commandments.

¹⁶ My delight shall be in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy words.

⁹² If my delight were not in thy law, I should perish in my trouble.

²⁰ My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman?

²⁹ The way of the LORD giveth a courage unto the godly; but it is a fear for wicked doers.

¹² The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; and for their wickedness, God overthroweth the ungodly.

¹² So I perceived, that in these things there is nothing better for a man, then to be merry and to do well so long as he liveth.

⁵ Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole.

²³ And then will I knowledge unto them, that I never knew them: 'Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.'

⁴¹ The son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that do offend, and all them which do iniquity, ⁴² and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

²⁷ And he shall say, 'I tell you, I know you not whence ye are: depart from me all ye workers of iniquity.' ²⁸ There shall be weeping, and gnashing of teeth: when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out a doors.

³⁴ Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.

²² I delight in the law of God, as concerning the inner man.

¹⁴ They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

⁵ As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

¹⁸ For her house is inclined unto death, and her paths into hell. ¹⁹ All they that go in unto her, come not again, neither take they hold of the way of life.

²⁶ For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain. ²⁷ Her houses are the way to hell, where men go down into the chambers of death.

¹⁸ But they consider not that death is there, and that her guests go down to hell.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise; but whoso is a companion of fools shall be hurt.

⁶ which start back from the LORD, and neither seek after the LORD, nor regard him.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and the men have loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For every man that evil doeth, hateth the light: neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

¹ And you hath he quickened also, that were dead in trespass and sin:

⁴ For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost, ⁵ and have tasted of the good word of God, and of the power of the world to come; ⁶ if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.

²⁶ For if we sin willingly after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins: ²⁷ but a fearful looking for judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.

³⁸ But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

²¹ For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. ²² It is happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, is returned to her wallowing in the mire."

¹⁹ They went out of us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But that fortuned, that it might appear that they were not of us.

¹² These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.

¹⁰ That other men be not filled with thy goods, and that thy labours come not in a strange house. ¹¹ Yea, that thou mourn not at the last, when thou hast spent thy body and goods,

²⁰ In a wise man's house there is great treasure and plenteousness; but a foolish body spendeth up all.

²¹ for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

¹³ And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack. ¹⁵ And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine. ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him.

²⁴ And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.' ²⁵ But Abraham said unto him, 'Son remember, that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise, Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and thou art punished.

⁶ but she that liveth in pleasure, is dead even yet alive.

⁴ traitors, heady, high minded, greedy upon voluptuousness more than the lovers of God,

⁸ The righteous shall be delivered out of trouble; and the ungodly shall come in his stead.

³ For I am the LORD thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy Saviour. I gave Egypt for thy deliverance, the Ethiopians and the Sabees for thee: ⁴ because thou wast dear in my sight, and because I set by thee, and loved thee. I will give over all men for thee, and deliver up all people for thy sake.

⁴ He was so despisable, that we esteemed him not. Truly, he took upon him our diseases, and bare our sorrows. And yet we counted him plagued, and beaten, and humbled of God. ⁵ He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The correction that brought us peace was on him, and with his stripes we were healed.

⁸ For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways. ⁹ But as far as the heavens are higher than the earth, so far do my ways exceed yours, and my thoughts yours.

¹⁸ Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, for to bring us to God, and was killed, as pertaining to the flesh: but was quickened in the spirit.

⁶ And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

⁵ Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Meshech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar! ⁶ My soul hath long dwelt among them that be enemies unto peace.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

² Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.

¹⁵ The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.

¹⁸ But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them.

⁵ Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full.

³ Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house, and his righteousness endureth forever.

²² The blessing of the LORD, maketh rich men; as for careful travail, it doth nothing thereto.

⁶ In the house of the righteous are great riches; but the increase of the ungodly are nigh destruction.

¹⁹ For unto whomsoever God giveth riches, goods and power, he giveth it him to enjoy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refreshed of his labour: this is now the gift of God.

¹¹ Wisdom is better than riches; yea, much more worth than the eyesight.

¹⁹ Meat maketh men to laugh, and wine maketh them merry; but unto money are all things obedient.

⁸ Among these eighty men there were ten, that said unto Ishmael, "Oh slay us not, for we have yet a great treasure in the field, of wheat, barley, oil and honey." So he spared them, and slew them not with their brethren.

¹⁹ "See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: ²⁰ But gather ye treasures together in heaven, where neither rust, nor yet moths corrupt: and where thieves neither break up, nor yet steal.

³ The foolish took their lamps, but took none oil with them. ⁴ But the wise took oil with them in their vessels with their lamps also.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us of your oil, for our lamps go out.'

⁴⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil. For of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaketh.

¹⁴ And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack.

¹ And he said also unto his disciples, "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, that was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

¹⁹ "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores, ²¹ desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's board. Nevertheless, the dogs came, and licked his sores. ²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

⁹ The way of the ungodly is an abomination unto the LORD; but whoso followeth righteousness, him he loveth.

⁴ The end of lowliness and the fear of God, is riches, honour, prosperity and health.

¹ Hearken unto me, ye that follow righteousness and seek the LORD. Look unto the rock ye were cut out, and to the cave and pit ye were digged out.

³ Then shall we have understanding, and endeavor ourselves to know the LORD. He shall go forth as the spring of the day, and come unto us as the evening and morning rain upon the earth."

⁶ Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.

⁷ that is to say: praise, honour, and immortality, to them which continue in good doing, and seek eternal life. ⁸ But unto them that are rebellious, and disobey the truth, and follow iniquity, shall come indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon the soul of every man that doth evil. Of the Jew first: And also of the gentile. ¹⁰ To every man that doth good shall come praise, honour and peace, to the Jew first, and also to the gentile.

¹⁹ Let us follow those things which make for peace: and things wherewith one may edify another.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the works of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

¹² Not as though I had already attained to it, either were already perfect: but I follow, if that I may comprehend that, wherein I am comprehended of Christ Jesus.

²¹ Examine all things, and keep that which is good.

¹¹ But thou, which art the man of God, flee such things. Follow righteousness, godliness, love, patience, and meekness.

²² Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.

⁷ I have fought a good fight, and have fulfilled my course, and have kept the faith. ⁸ From henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord that is a righteous judge shall give me at that day: not to me only: but unto all them that love his coming.

¹⁴ Embrace peace with all men, and holiness; without the which, no man shall see the Lord.

⁷ that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

⁶ Then went the king and his men to Jerusalem, unto the Jebusites the inhabiters of the land. And they said unto David, "Except thou take away the blind and the lame thou shalt not come in hither" — meaning thereby that David should not have come in thither. ⁷ Nevertheless David took the hold of Zion, which is in the city of David. ⁸ Then said David the same day, "Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutters of the houses: smite the lame and the blind that hate David's soul." Wherefore they said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." ⁹ And David dwelt in the tower and called it the city of David. And David built round about it from Mello inward.

¹⁶ Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear! Hear! Bid, I pray you, Joab that he come hither, that I may speak with him." ¹⁷ When Joab was come the woman said, "Art thou Joab?" And Joab answered, "That am I." And she said to him, "Hear the words of thy handmaid." And he said, "I am ready to hear." ¹⁸ And she said, "It hath been a common saying in the old time: 'Men must ask of Abel, and then go and finish the work.' ¹⁹ Abel is one of the quietest and faithfullest cities that are in Israel. And thou goest about to destroy a city that is as a mother in Israel. Why devourest thou the inheritance of the LORD?" ²⁰ And Joab answered and said, "God forbid! God forbid it me, that I should either devour or destroy it. ²¹ The matter is not so: But there is a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, which hath lifted up his hand against king David. Deliver us him only, and I will depart from the city." And the woman said unto Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown through the wall to thee." ²² And then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they smote off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they scattered from the city every man to his tent, and Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

⁵ A wise man is strong; yea, a man of understanding is better than he that is mighty of strength.

¹⁹ Wisdom giveth more courage unto the wise, than ten mighty men of the city.

¹³ This wisdom have I seen also under the Sun, and me thought it a great thing. ¹⁴ There was a little city, and a few men within it: so there came a great king and besieged it, and made great bulwarks against it. ¹⁵ And in the city there was found a poor man - but he was wise - which with his wisdom delivered the city: yet was there no body, that had any respect for such a simple man. ¹⁶ Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless, a simple man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. ¹⁷ A wise man's counsel that is followed in silence, is far above the crying of a captain among fools. ¹⁸ For wisdom is better than harness: but one unthrifty alone destroyeth much good.

¹⁹ Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.

¹³ The wicked falleth into the snare through the malice of his own mouth; but the just shall escape out of peril.

³ He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life; but whoso speaketh unadvised, findeth harm.

²⁷ He is wise and discreet that tempereth his words; and he is a man of understanding, that maketh much of his spirit. ²⁸ Yea, a very fool, when he holdeth his tongue, is counted wise; and to have understanding, when he shutteth his lips.

²¹ Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.

²⁶ If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

² For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body. ³ Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths that they should obey us, and we turn about all the body. ⁴ Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will: ⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. ¹¹ Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also? ¹² Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries: or a vine bear figs? So can no fountain give both salt water and fresh also. ¹³ If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.

⁵ And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not the knee unto him, nor worshipped him, he was full of indignation ⁶ and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.

¹ O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

¹² After pride cometh destruction; and honour after lowliness.

²⁹ Punishments are ordained for the scornful, and stripes for fools' backs.

⁸ The end of a thing is better than the beginning. The patient of spirit is better than the high minded. ⁹ Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab: it is well known. He is very proud, presumptuous, arrogant, and full of indignation, and vain are his lies.

²⁹ As for Moab's pride, we have heard of it, she is very high-minded. I know her stoutness, her boasting, her arrogance, and the pride of her stomach, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁶ Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

⁶ Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise. ⁷ She hath no guide, no teacher, no leader: ⁸ yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest. ⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, thou sluggish man? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰ Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep: ¹¹ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

²⁴ A diligent hand shall bear rule; but the idle shall be under tribute.

²⁷ A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.

¹⁹ The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.

²⁴ A slothful body shutteth his hand into his bosom; so that he cannot put it to his mouth.

⁴ A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

¹³ The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."

³⁰ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man. ³¹ And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down. ³² This I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and took it for a warning. ³³ Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little; ³⁴ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

¹³ The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets."

¹⁶ The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.

²⁶ His master answered, and said unto him, 'Thou evil servant and slothful, thou knowest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not:

²⁶ The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth gently; therefore shall his seed be blessed.

⁴² Give to him that asketh, and from him that would borrow, turn not away.

³⁰ Give to every man that asketh of thee. And of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. ³¹ And as ye would that men should do to you: so do ye to them likewise. ³² If ye love them which love you: what thank are ye worthy of? For the very sinners love their lovers. ³³ And if ye do for them which do for you: what thank are ye worthy of? For the very sinners do even the same. ³⁴ If ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive: what thank shall ye have: for the very sinners, lend to sinners, to receive as much again. ³⁵ Wherefore, love ye your enemies, do good, and lend, looking for nothing again: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the highest: for he is kind unto the unkind, and to the evil. ³⁶ Be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

³³ I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture. ³⁴ Ye know well that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. ³⁵ I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to receive the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how that he said, 'It is more blessed to give, than to receive.'"

⁷ Now therefore, as ye are rich in all parts, in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all ferventness, and in love, which ye have to us: even so see that ye be plenteous in this benevolence. ⁸ This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no. ⁹ Ye know the liberality of our Lord Jesus Christ, which though he were rich, yet for your sakes became poor: that ye through his poverty might be made rich.

⁹ as it is written, "He that dispersed abroad and hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever." ¹⁰ He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness — that on all parts ¹¹ ye may be made rich in all singleness, which causeth through us, thanksgiving unto God. ¹² For the office of this ministration, not only supplieth the need of the saints: but also is abundant herein, that for this laudable ministering, thanks might be given to God of many, ¹³ which praise God for the obedience of your professing the gospel of Christ, and for your singleness, in distributing to them, and to all men. ¹⁴ And in their prayers to God for you, long after you, for the abundant grace of God given unto you.

⁵ Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words — as ye well know — neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record: ⁶ neither sought we praise of men, neither of you, nor yet of any other, when we might have been chargeable, as the apostles of Christ. ⁷ But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children, ⁸ so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. ⁹ Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God.

¹² then said I, 'The Philistines shall come down upon me to Gilgal, before I have made supplication unto the LORD.' And therefore I took a courage with me and offered burnt offerings." ¹³ Then said Samuel to Saul, "Thou hast done foolishly and hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God which he commanded thee. For at this time would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever.

²¹ And the people took of the spoil, sheep, oxen, and the chiefest of the things which should have been destroyed, to offer unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal." ²² Then said Samuel, "Hath the LORD as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerings, as he hath that thou shouldest obey his voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to give heed is better than the fat of rams. ²³ For rebelliousness is as the sin of witchcraft; and stubbornness is wickedness and idolatry. Because therefore thou hast cast away the word of the LORD, therefore hath the LORD cast away thee also, from being king."

⁸ I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me. ⁹ I will take no bullocks out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰ For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know all the fowls upon the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are in my sight. ¹² If I be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the whole world is mine, and all that therein is. ¹³ Thinkest thou that I will eat the flesh of oxen, or drink the blood of goats?

⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, his prayer shall be abhorred.

¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats. ¹² When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches? ¹³ Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days. Your fastings are also in vain. ¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

³ For whoso slayeth an ox for me, doth me so great dishonour, as he that killeth a man. He that killeth a sheep for me, choketh a dog. He that bringeth me meat offerings, offereth swine's blood. Who so maketh me a memorial of incense, praiseth the thing that is unright. Yet take they such ways in hand, and their soul delighteth in these abominations.

²⁰ Wherefore bring ye me incense from Sheba, and sweet smelling Calamus from far countries? Your burnt offerings displease me, and I rejoice not in your sacrifices.

¹¹ What? Think you this house that beareth my name, is a den of thieves? And these things are not done privily, but before mine eyes, sayeth the LORD. ¹² Go to my place in Shiloh, whereunto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel.

²¹ "'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it. ²² And though ye offer me burnt offerings and meat offerings, yet have I no pleasure therein. As for your fat thank offerings, I will not look upon them.

¹³ Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

¹ Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

¹⁶ If an unrighteous witness rise up against a man to accuse him of trespass: ¹⁷ then let both the men which strive together stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days, ¹⁸ and let the judges enquire a good. And if the witness be found false and that he hath given false witness against his brother, ¹⁹ then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to do unto his brother, and so thou shalt put evil away from thee.

¹⁹ a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.

¹⁹ A true mouth is ever constant; but a dissembling tongue is soon changed.

⁵ A false witness shall not remain unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not remain unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

¹⁸ Whoso beareth false witness against his neighbour, he is a very spear, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

¹⁵ And they said unto her, "Thou art mad." And she bare them down that it was even so. Then said they, "It is his angel."

¹⁷ When I thus wise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think, that with me should be "yea, yea," and "nay, nay?" ¹⁸ God is faithful: For our preaching unto you, was not "yea" and "nay." ¹⁹ For God's son Jesus Christ which was preached among you by us — that is to say, by me and Silvanus and Timothy — was not "yea" and "nay": but in him it was "Yea." ²⁰ For all the promises of God, in him are "Yea": and are in him "Amen," unto the laud of God through us.

¹³ Seeing then that we have the same spirit of faith, according as it is written — "I believed and therefore have I spoken" — we also believe, and therefore speak.

⁸ This is a true saying. Of these things I would thou shouldest certify, that they which believe God, might be diligent to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

⁵ O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

⁵⁹ I call mine own ways to remembrance, and turn my feet into thy testimonies.

⁵ The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.

¹⁴ Well is him that standeth always in awe; as for him that hardeneth his heart, he shall fall into mischief.

¹ He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help.

² Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled. ³ This is the cause that the rain and evening dew hath ceased. Thou hast gotten thee a whore's forehead, and canst not be ashamed.

³ Where as thou, O LORD, lookest only upon faith and truth. Thou hast scourged them, but they took no repentance: thou hast corrected them for amendment, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder than stone, and would not amend.

¹² Fie! For shame! How abominable things do they? And yet they be not ashamed; yea, they know of no shame. Wherefore in the time of their visitation, they shall fall among the dead bodies, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁶ "As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them: ¹⁷ But whatsoever goeth out of our own mouth, that will we do: We will do sacrifice, and offer oblations unto the Queen of heaven: like as we and our forefathers, our kings and our heads have done in the cities of Judah, and in the streets and fields of Jerusalem. For then had we plenteousness of victuals, then were we in prosperity, and no misfortune came upon us.

²⁸ because he feared and turned from all his wickedness which he did, he shall live and not die, saith the Lord almighty.

⁵ Consider now your own ways in your hearts, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

⁷ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Consider your own ways in your hearts,

¹⁵ And now, I pray you, consider from this day forth, and how it hath gone with you afore - before there was laid one stone upon another in the temple of the LORD -

¹⁸ Consider then from this day forth and afore, namely, from the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, unto the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid: Mark it well, ¹⁹ is not the seed yet in the barn? Have not the vines, the fig trees, the pomegranates and the olive trees been yet unfruitful? But from this day forth, I shall make them to prosper."

¹⁷ Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger. ¹⁸ I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee,

¹¹ God himself, our father, and our Lord Jesus Christ guide our journey unto you:

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.

⁵ Because that the king of Syria, Ephraim, and Remaliah's son have wickedly conspired against thee, ⁶ saying, 'We will go down into Judah, vex them, and bring them under us, and set a king there, even the son of Tabeel.' ⁷ For thus sayeth the LORD God thereto: It shall not so go forth, neither come so to pass:

⁹ Go together ye people, and gather you, hearken to all ye of far countries. Muster you, and you shall be broken down: prepare you to battle and you shall be torn in pieces. ¹⁰ Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

²⁷ For if the LORD of Hosts determine a thing, who will disannul it? And if he stretch forth his hand, who will hold it in again?

¹⁰ In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure. ¹¹ I call a bird out of the East, and all that I take in hand, out of far countries, as soon as I command, I bring it hither: as soon as I think to devise a thing, I do it.

²³ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Let not the wise man rejoice in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength; neither the rich man in his riches.

¹³ Nevertheless the men assayed with rowing to bring the ship to land: but it would not be, because the sea so wrought and was so troublous against them.

²⁷ For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate with the gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together: ²⁸ for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

³⁹ but and if it be of God, ye cannot destroy it, lest haply ye be found to strive against God."

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness." ²⁰ And again, "God knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they be vain."

⁸ and a stone to stumble at, and a rock to offend them which stumble at the word, and believe not that whereon they were set.

³ But thou, O LORD, art my defender; thou art my worship, and the lifter up of my head.

⁸ Salvation belongeth unto the LORD; and thy blessing is upon thy people.

⁷ Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

¹⁷ A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength. ¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the LORD looketh unto them that fear him, and upon them that put their trust in his mercy,

²⁰ He is our God, even the God of whom cometh salvation; God is the LORD, by whom we escape death.

¹⁰ Thou that givest victory unto kings, and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword.

¹⁰ He hath no pleasure in the strength of a horse, neither delighteth he in any man's legs.

¹¹ So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.

¹ Woe be unto them that go down into Egypt for help, and trust in horses, and comfort themselves in chariots, because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lusty and strong. But they regard not the holy one of Israel, and they ask no question at the LORD.

²³ The hills fall, and all the high pride of the mountains; but the health of Israel standeth only upon God our LORD.