Proverbs 22 Cross References - MSTC

¹ A good name is more worth than great riches; and loving favour is better than silver and gold. ² Whether riches or poverty do meet us, it cometh all of God. ³ A wise man seeth the plague and hideth himself; but the foolish go on still and are punished. ⁴ The end of lowliness and the fear of God, is riches, honour, prosperity and health. ⁵ Spears and snares are in the way of the froward; but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such. ⁶ If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go; he shall not leave it when he is old. ⁷ The rich ruleth the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow; and the rod of his plague shall destroy him. ⁹ A loving eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread unto the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scornful man, and so shall strife go out with him; yea, variance and slander shall cease. ¹¹ Whoso delighteth to be of a clean heart and of gracious lips, the king shall be his friend. ¹² The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge; but as for the words of the despiteful, he bringeth them to naught. ¹³ The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street." ¹⁴ The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal. ¹⁵ Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad; but the rod of correction driveth it away. ¹⁶ Whoso doth a poor man wrong, to increase his own riches, and giveth unto the rich to please him, at the last cometh to poverty himself. ¹⁷ My son, bow down thine ear, and hearken unto the words of wisdom, apply thy mind unto my doctrine - ¹⁸ for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep it in thine heart, and practice it in thy mouth - ¹⁹ that thou mayest always put thy trust in the LORD. ²⁰ Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning? ²¹ That I might show thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee? 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. ²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry willful man, and keep no company with the furious; ²⁵ lest thou learn his ways, and receive hurt unto thy soul. ²⁶ Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt; ²⁷ for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee. ²⁸ Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set. ²⁹ Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

⁴⁷ And moreover, the king's servants went in to bless our lord king David saying, 'Thy God make the name of Solomon more favoured than thine, and his seat more glorious than thine.' And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

¹ A good name is more worth than a precious ointment, and the day of death is better than the day of birth.

²⁰ Nevertheless, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are under your power: But rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

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.

³ Yea, and I beseech thee faithful yokefellow, help the women which laboured with me in the gospel, and with Clement also, and with others, my labour fellows, whose names are in the book of life.

³⁹ And these all, through faith, obtained good report, and received not the promise;

⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high.

¹⁵ He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies?

¹⁹ 'Ungodly men are ye.' He hath none respect unto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the rich more than the poor. For they be all the work of his hands.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O Hear this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world, ² high and low, rich and poor, one with another.

³¹ He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.

¹³ The poor and the lender meet together; the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

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 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee," nor the head also to the feet, "I have no need of you."

² If there come into your company a man with a golden ring, and in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye have a respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say unto the poor, "stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool" - ⁴ are ye not even partial in your selves, and have judged after evil thoughts? ⁵ Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

²⁰ And as many as feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their beasts flee to house: ²¹ and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field.

⁷ and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool

²² suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished - ²³ so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon.

¹⁶ "Who so is ignorant," sayeth she, "let him come hither." And to the unwise she sayeth, ¹⁷ "Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread that is privily eaten, hath a good taste." ¹⁸ But they consider not that death is there, and that her guests go down to hell.

¹⁶ A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but a fool goeth on presumptuously.

¹² A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.

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

²⁰ So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast. ²¹ For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

¹⁵ When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination that betokeneth desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place: let him that readeth it, understand it: ¹⁶ Then let them which be in Jewry fly into the mountains. ¹⁷ And let him which is on the housetop, not come down to fetch anything out of his house. ¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field, return back to fetch his clothes.

² for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night. ³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape. ⁴ But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief. ⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.

¹⁸ that by two immutable things — in which it was impossible that God should lie — we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:

⁷ By faith Noah honoured God, after that he was warned of things which were not seen, and prepared the ark to the saving of his household, through the which ark he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which cometh by faith.

⁹ O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. ¹⁰ The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, and hath great delight in his commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth; the generation of the faithful shall be blessed. ³ Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house, and his righteousness endureth forever.

¹⁶ Upon her righthand is long life, and upon her left hand is riches and honour.

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

⁶ Let truth and faithfulness be in her time: power, health, wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God are her treasure.

¹⁵ For thus sayeth the high and excellent, even he that dwelleth in everlastingness, whose name is the holy one: I dwell high above and in the sanctuary, and with him also, that is of a contrite and humble spirit: that I may heal a troubled mind, and a contrite heart.

³³ But rather, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof; and all these things shall be ministered unto you.

⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.

⁶ but giveth more grace?

¹⁰ Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

¹³ be sure that the LORD your God will not cast out all these nations before you. But they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges for your sides, and pricks in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

⁸ For his feet shall be taken in the net, and he is at his wits end.

⁶ Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

²⁶ With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.} ²⁷ For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. {TYNDALE: And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.}

¹ Whoso dwelleth under the defense of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favour; but hard is the way of the despisers.

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

¹⁷ The path of the righteous escheweth evil; and whoso looketh well to his ways, keepeth his own soul.

¹⁶ Whoso keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul; but he that regardeth not his way, shall die.

¹⁸ We know that all that are born of God, sin not: but he that is born of God keepeth himself, and that wicked toucheth him not.

²⁰ But ye, dearly beloved, edify yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost, ²¹ and keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

⁹ Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.

⁷ And thou shalt whet them on thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way; and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.

²⁸ and therefore I also lend him the LORD, as long as he may be lent the LORD." And so they prayed there unto the LORD.

²⁶ But the child Samuel profited and grew, and was in favour both with the LORD and also with men.

² And see, your king walketh before you. But I am old and grayheaded: and behold my sons are with you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. ³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, ⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

⁴ And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹ And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen."

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."

²³ The poor maketh supplication and prayeth meekly; but the rich giveth a rough answer.

¹⁶ Whoso doth a poor man wrong, to increase his own riches, and giveth unto the rich to please him, at the last cometh to poverty himself.

²² See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment;

² Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor as the debtor.

⁶ "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Israel, I will not spare him: because he hath sold the righteous for money, and the poor for shoes.

¹ O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'

¹¹ Forsomuch then as ye oppress the poor, and rob him of his best sustenance: therefore, where as ye have builded houses of square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Marvelous pleasant vineyards shall ye plant; but the wine of them shall ye not drink. And why? ¹² As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.

⁴ Hear this, O ye that oppress the poor, and destroy the needy in the lands, saying,

⁶ We shall set up false weights, that we may get the poor under us with their money, and the needy also for shoes: yea let us sell the chaff for corn."

²⁵ Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.

⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

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.

⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.

³ For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.

³ In the mouth of the foolish is the boasting of lordship; but the lips of the wise will beware of such.

⁴ For thou shalt break the yoke of the people's burden: the staff of his shoulder and the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.

²⁹ Rejoice not, thou whole Philistia, as though the rod of him that beateth thee were broken: For out of the serpent's root, there shall come an adder, and the fruit shall be a fiery worm.

³¹ Then shall the Assyrians fear also because of the voice of the LORD, which shall smite him with the rod.

⁷ They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up.

¹³ But now they have plowed them wickedness, therefore shall they reap sin, and eat the fruit of lies. Seeing thou puttest thy confidence in thine own ways, and leanest to the multitude of thy worthies:

⁷ Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. ⁸ He that soweth in his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit shall, of the spirit, reap life everlasting.

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.'

⁵⁶ Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you that she dare not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for softness and tenderness, shall be grieved to look on the husband that lieth in her bosom and on her son and on her daughter -

¹⁶ "When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain? ¹⁷ Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me? ¹⁸ For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb. ¹⁹ Have I seen any man perish through nakedness and want of clothing? Or any poor man for lack of raiment, ²⁰ whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep?

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble. ² The LORD shall preserve him, and keep him alive: he shall make him to prosper upon earth, and shall not deliver him into the will of his enemies. ³ The LORD shall refresh him, when he lieth sick upon his bed, yea thou makest his bed in all his sickness.

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

²⁵ He that is liberal in giving, shall have plenty; and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself.

¹⁷ He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the LORD; and look, what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again.

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

¹ Send thy victuals over the waters, and so shalt thou find them after many years. ² Give part sven days, and also upon the eighth, for thou knowest not what misery shall come upon earth.

⁸ But the liberal person imagineth honest things, and cometh up with honesty.

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." ¹⁰ Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day. ¹¹ The LORD shall ever be thy guide, and satisfy the desire of thine heart, and fill thy bones with marrow. Thou shalt be like a fresh watered garden, and like the fountain of water, that never leaveth running. ¹² Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁴ Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. ³⁵ For I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me. I was naked and ye clothed me. ³⁶ I was sick and ye visited me. I was in prison and ye came unto me.' ³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, and fed thee? Or athirst, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ When saw we thee harborless, and lodged thee? Or naked and clothed thee? ³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison and came unto thee?' ⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.'

²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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. ³⁷ "Judge not and ye shall not be judged. Condemn not: and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosoms. For with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you again."

¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

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.'"

¹ I do you to wit, brethren, of the grace of God, which is given in the congregations of Macedonia: ² how that the abundance of their rejoicing is, that they are tried with much tribulation. And thereto, though they were exceeding poor, yet have they given exceeding richly, and that in singleness.

⁶ This yet remember, how that he which soweth little, shall reap little: and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. ⁷ And let every man do according as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity. For God loveth a cheerful giver. ⁸ God is able to make you rich in all grace, that ye in all things having sufficient unto the utmost, may be rich unto all manner good works, 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.

¹⁸ and that they do good and be rich in good works, and ready to give and to distribute, ¹⁹ laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may obtain eternal life.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous that he should forget your work and labour that proceedeth of love, which love showed in his name, which have ministered unto the saints, and yet minister.

¹⁶ To do good, and to distribute, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

⁹ Be ye harborous, one to another, and that without grudging.

⁹ Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking. ¹⁰ Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

¹ But when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews ² and said before his brethren and the soldiers of Samaria, "What do these impotent Jews? Shall they be thus suffered? Shall they offer? Shall they perform it in one day? Shall they make the stones whole again that are brought to dust, and burnt?" ³ And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said, "Let them build on: if a fox go up, he shall break down their stony wall."

²⁸ And one of the children of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, had made a contract with Sanballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me.

⁵ Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him.

⁶ A fool's lips are ever brawling, and his mouth provoketh unto battle.

²⁴ He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth. ²¹ Coals kindle heat, and wood the fire; even so doth a brawling fellow stir up variance.

¹⁷ If he hear not them, tell it unto the congregation: if he hear not the congregation, take him as a heathen man, and as a publican.

⁵ to deliver him unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ Your rejoicing is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven soureth the whole lump of dough?

¹³ Them that are without, God shall judge. Put away from among you that evil person.

³⁹ Wherefore Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is no man of understanding nor of wisdom like unto thee. ⁴⁰ Thou therefore shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the king's seat will I be above thee." ⁴¹ And he said unto Joseph, "Behold, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt." ⁴² And he took off his ring from his finger, and put it upon Joseph's finger, and he arrayed him in raiment of byss, and put a golden chain about his neck, ⁴³ and set him upon the best chariot that he had, save one. And they cried before him "Abrech!" And that Pharaoh had made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; without thy will, shall no man lift up either his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." ⁴⁵ And he called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah. And he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. Then went Joseph abroad in the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶ And he was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And then Joseph departed from Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And in the seven plenteous years they made sheaves, ⁴⁸ and gathered up all the food of the seven plenteous years which were in the land of Egypt and put it into the cities. And he put the food of the fields that grew round about every city, even in the same. ⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number. ⁵⁰ And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of hunger came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, bare unto him. ⁵¹ And he called the name of the first son Manasseh, "For God," said he, "hath made me forget all my labour and all my father's household." ⁵² The second called he Ephraim, "For God," said he, "hath caused me to grow in the land of my trouble." ⁵³ And when the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended, ⁵⁴ then came the seven years of dearth, according as Joseph had said. And the dearth was in all lands: but in the land of Egypt was there yet food. ⁵⁵ When now all the land of Egypt began to hunger, then cried the people to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all Egypt, "Go unto Joseph, and what he saith to you, that do." ⁵⁶ And when the dearth was throughout all the land, Joseph opened all that was in the cities, and sold unto the Egyptians. And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all countries came to Egypt, to Joseph, for to buy corn: because that the hunger was so sore in all lands.

⁶ This Ezra was a perfect scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel did give. And the king gave him all that he required, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him. ⁷ And there went up certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and of the Levites, of the singers, of the porters, and of the Nethinims; unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of king Artaxerxes. ⁸ And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, that is the seventh year of the king. ⁹ For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon: and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of God upon him. ¹⁰ For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach the precept and judgment in Israel. ¹¹ And this is the copy of the letter, that king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, which was a teacher in the words of the LORD and of his statutes over Israel:

⁴ Then said the king unto me, "What, then, is thy request?" Then made I my prayer to the God of heaven, ⁵ and said unto the king, "If it please the king, and if thy servant be favoured in thy sight, I beseech thee: send me in to Judah unto the city of my fathers' burial, that I may build it." ⁶ And the king said unto me, the queen his wife sitting by him, "How long shall thy journey continue, and when wilt thou come again?" And it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time,

³ For Mordecai the Jew was the second next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, as one that seeketh the wealth of his people, and speaketh the best for all his seed.

² Thou art the fairest among the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

⁶ Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant.

³⁵ A discreet servant is a pleasure unto the king; but one that is not honest provoketh him unto wrath.

¹³ Righteous lips are pleasant unto kings; and they love him that speaketh the truth.

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell down upon his face, and bowed himself unto Daniel, and commanded that they should offer meat offerings and sweet odours unto him. ⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel, and said, "Yea, of a truth your God is a God above all gods, and LORD above all kings, and an opener of secrets: seeing thou canst discover this mystery." ⁴⁸ So the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many and great gifts. He made him ruler of all the countries of Babylon, and lord of all the nobles, that were at Babylon. ⁴⁹ Now Daniel intreated the king for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, so that he made them rulers over all the offices in the land of Babylon: But Daniel himself remained still in the court by the king.

³⁰ So the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the land of Babylon.

²⁰ Now as he came nigh unto the den, he cried with a piteous voice unto Daniel: Yea, the king spake, and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, thou servant of the living God, is not thy God, whom thou alway servest, able to deliver thee from the lions?" ²¹ Daniel said unto the king, "O king, God save thy life for ever. ²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions' mouths, so that they might not hurt me. For why? Mine unguiltiness is found out before him. And as for thee, O king, I never offended thee." ²³ Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded to take Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him; For he put his trust in his God.

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

²² And all they bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"

⁹ For the eyes of the LORD behold all the earth, to strengthen the hearts of them that are whole with him. Herein thou hast done foolishly, and therefore from henceforth thou shalt have war."

¹² Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand; ¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked.

¹⁹ wherethrough the name of the LORD might be feared, from the rising of the Sun: and his majesty, unto the going down of the same. For he shall come as a violent water stream, which the wind of the LORD hath moved. ²⁰ But unto Zion there shall come a redeemer, and unto them in Jacob that turn from wickedness, sayeth the LORD. ²¹ I will make this covenant with them, sayeth the LORD: My spirit that is come upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never go out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy children's children, from this time forth for evermore.

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, and said, "Thou art Christ, the son of the living God." ¹⁷ And Jesus answered, and said to him, "Happy art thou, Simon the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood hath not opened unto thee that, but my father which is in heaven. ¹⁸ And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter. And upon this rock, I will build my congregation: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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

⁹ And there was a certain man called Simon, which beforetime in the same city, used witchcraft and bewitched the people of Samaria, saying that he was a man that could do great things. ¹⁰ Whom they regarded, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This fellow is the great power of God." ¹¹ And him they set much by, because of long time with sorcery he had mocked their wits. ¹² But as soon as they believed Philip's preaching of the kingdom of God and of the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised: both men and women.

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. ²⁴ And the word of God grew and multiplied.

⁸ But the sorcerer Elymas — for so was his name by interpretation — withstood them, and sought to turn away the ruler from the faith. ⁹ Then Saul, which also is called Paul, being full of the holy ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, ¹⁰ "O full of all subtlety and deceitfulness, and child of the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness: thou ceasest not to pervert the straight ways of the Lord. ¹¹ And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind and not see the sun for a season." And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; And he went about, seeking them that should lead him by the hand. ¹² Then the ruler, when he saw what had happened, believed: and wondered at the doctrine of the Lord.

⁸ and then shall that wicked be uttered, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming,

⁸ As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, even so do these resist the truth, men they are of corrupt minds, and lewd as concerning the faith: ⁹ but they shall prevail no longer. For their madness shall be uttered unto all men as theirs was.

³ "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." ⁴ These are two olive trees, and two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth. ⁵ And if any man will hurt them, fire shall proceed out of their mouths, and consume their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, this wise must he be killed. ⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all manner plagues, as often as they will. ⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that came out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them: and shall overcome them, and kill them. ⁸ And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Eygpt, where our Lord was crucified. ⁹ And they of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves. ¹⁰ And they that dwell upon the earth, shall rejoice over them and be glad, and shall send gifts one to another: for these two prophets vexed them that dwelt on the earth. ¹¹ And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood up upon their feet: and great fear came upon them which saw them.

¹⁴ And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. ¹⁵ And the dragon cast out of his mouth water after the woman, as it had been a river, because she should have been caught of the flood. ¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ¹⁷ And the dragon was wroth with the woman: and went and made war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

³² And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched, unto the children of Israel, saying, "The land which we have gone through, to search it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabiters thereof, and the people that we saw in it are men of stature. ³³ And there we saw also giants, the children of Anak which are of the giants. And we seemed in our sight as it were grasshoppers and so we did in their sight."

¹³ The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets." ¹⁴ Like as the door turneth about upon the threshold, even so doth the slothful welter himself in his bed. ¹⁵ The slothful body thrusteth his hand into his bosom, and it grieveth him to put it again to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.

¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters.

²⁰ And she said, "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." And he awoke out of his sleep and thought to go out as at other times before and shake himself, and knew not that the LORD was departed from him. ²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house.

²⁶ Did not Solomon the king of Israel sin therein? And yet among many Heathen was there no king like him, and he was dear unto his God, and God made him king over all Israel, and yet nevertheless outlandish women caused him to sin?

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.

¹⁶ That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words, ¹⁷ forsaketh the husband of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 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.

³ For the lips of a harlot are a dropping honeycomb, and her throat is softer than oil. ⁴ But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down unto death, and her steps pierce through unto hell. ⁶ She regardeth not the path of life, so unsteadfast are her ways, that thou canst not know them. ⁷ Hear me therefore, O my son, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Keep thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house: ⁹ That thou give not thine honour unto another, and thy years to the cruel; 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, ¹² and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction? ¹³ Wherefore was not I obedient unto the voice of my teachers, and hearken not unto them that informed me? ¹⁴ I am come almost into all misfortune, in the midst of the multitude and congregation." ¹⁵ Drink of the water of thine own well, and of the rivers that run out of thine own springs. ¹⁶ Let thy wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of water in the streets: ¹⁷ but let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love. ²⁰ My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman? ²¹ For every man's ways are open in the sight of the LORD, and he pondereth all their goings. ²² The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped. ²³ Because he would not be reformed, he shall die: and for his great foolishness he shall be destroyed.

²⁴ that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot: ²⁵ that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks. ²⁶ A harlot will make a man to beg his bread, but a married woman will hunt for the precious life. ²⁷ May a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt? ²⁸ Or can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be hurt? ²⁹ Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.

⁵ That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words. ⁶ For out of the window of my house I looked through the trellis, ⁷ and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool ⁸ going over the streets, by the corner, in the way toward the harlot's house; ⁹ in the twilight of the evening, when it began now to be night and dark. ¹⁰ And behold, there met him a woman with open tokens of a harlot. Only her heart was hid. ¹¹ She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house. ¹² Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner. ¹³ She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying, ¹⁴ "I had a vow to pay, and this day I perform it. ¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face, and so I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have decked my bed with coverings and clothes of Egypt. ¹⁷ My bed have I made to smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us lie together, and take our pleasure till it be daylight. ¹⁹ For the goodman is not at home, he is gone far off. ²⁰ He hath taken the bag of money with him: who can tell when he cometh home?" ²¹ Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him ²² suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished - ²³ so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon. ²⁴ Hear me now therefore, O my son, and mark the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths. 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.

²⁷ For a whore is a deep grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit.

²⁶ And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.

⁴ Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

⁵ Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

²⁴ He that spareth the rod, hateth his son; but whoso loveth him, chastiseth him betimes.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son while there is hope; but let not thy soul be moved to slay him.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die thereof. ¹⁴ Thou smitest him with the rod; but thou deliverest his soul from hell.

¹⁵ The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

¹⁷ Nurture thy son with correction, and he shall comfort thee; yea, he shall do the good at thine heart.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

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.

¹⁰ And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness. ¹¹ No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness unto them which are therein exercised.

¹⁹ And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them. ²⁰ His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness. ²¹ He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper. ²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side. ²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him: ²⁴ so that if he flee the iron weapons, he shall be shot with the steel bow. ²⁵ The arrow shall be taken forth, and go out at his back; and a glistering sword through the gall of him. Fear shall come upon him. ²⁶ There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed. ²⁷ The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall take part against him. ²⁸ The substance that he hath in his house, shall be taken away and perish, in the day of the LORD's wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

⁵ "Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

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.

³ One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.

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

² When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage. ³ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, against this household have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks. Ye shall no more go so proudly, for it will be a perilous time.

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 but scattered them among all Gentiles, whom they knew not. Thus the land was made so desolate, that there traveled no man in it neither to nor fro, for that pleasant land was utterly laid waste."

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.

¹² Then said he also to him that had desired him to dinner, "When thou makest a dinner, or a supper: call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor yet rich neighbours: lest they bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. ¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind, ¹⁴ and thou shalt be happy: For they cannot recompense thee. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just men."

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.'

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

¹ Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you. ² Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days. 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.

¹² O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

³ righteousness, judgment and equity.

² that thou wilt incline thin ears unto wisdom; apply thine heart then to understanding. ³ For if thou criest after wisdom, and callest for knowledge; ⁴ If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures; ⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

¹ My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments.

⁴ he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. ⁵ Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. ⁷ The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding. ⁸ Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.

¹ My son, give heed unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my prudence: ² that thou mayest regard good counsel, and that thy lips may keep nurture.

³³ O give ear unto nurture, be wise, and refuse it not. ³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, and giving attendance at the posts of my doors.

¹² Apply thine heart unto learning, and thine ear to the words of knowledge.

²⁵ I applied my mind also to knowledge, and to seek out science, wisdom and understanding: to know the foolishness of the ungodly, and the error of doting fools.

⁹ All these things have I considered, and applied my mind unto every work that is under the Sun: how one man hath lordship upon another to his own harm.

¹⁶ And so I applied my mind to learn wisdom, and to know the travail that is in the world; and that of such a fashion that I suffered not my eyes to sleep neither day nor night.

³ Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

⁵ While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud shadowed them. And behold, there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is my dear son, in whom I delight; hear him."

¹⁸ For I am full of words, and the spirit that is within me, compelleth me. ¹⁹ Behold, I am as the new wine, which hath no vent, and bursteth the new vessels in sunder.

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

¹³ With my lips will I be telling out all the judgments of thy mouth.

¹⁰³ O how sweet are thy words unto my throat! Yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

¹¹¹ Thy testimonies have I claimed as my heritage forever; and why? They are the very joy of my heart.

¹⁶² I am as glad of thy word, as one that findeth great spoils.

¹⁷¹ My lips shall speak of thy praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

¹⁰ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and thy soul delighteth in knowledge;

¹⁷ Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

⁶ Give ear, for I will speak of great matters, and open my lips to tell things that be right.

¹³ In the lips of him that hath understanding a man shall find wisdom; but the rod belongeth to the back of the foolish.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed a whole multitude; but fools shall die in their own folly.

⁷ A wise mouth poureth out knowledge; but the heart of the foolish doth not so.

²¹ Whoso hath a wise understanding is called to counsel; but he that can speak fair, getteth more riches.

¹³ My son, thou eatest honey and the sweet honeycomb, because it is good and sweet in thy mouth. ¹⁴ Even so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, as soon as thou hast gotten it. And there is good hope; yea, thy hope shall not be in vain.

¹¹ A word spoken in due season, is like apples of gold in a silver dish.

¹⁶ When I had found thy words, I ate them up greedily: they have made my heart joyful and glad, for I call upon thy name, O LORD God of Hosts.

⁷ For the priest's lips should be sure knowledge, that men may seek the law at his mouth, for he is a messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

³⁸ He that believeth on me, as sayeth the scripture, 'Out of his belly shall flow rivers of water of life.'"

¹⁵ For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

⁸ O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

⁵ Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

² Behold, God is my salvation: I will be bold therefore and not fear. For the LORD God is my strength and my praise whereof I sing: and is become my saviour.

⁴ Hope still in the LORD, for in the LORD God is everlasting strength.

⁷ O Blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is himself.

²¹ Which, by his means, have believed on God that raised him from death, and glorified him, that your faith and hope might be in God.

⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

¹² Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, and prepared unto all good works.

¹⁹ We have also a right sure word of prophecy, whereunto if ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, ye do well; until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. ²⁰ So that ye first know this: That no prophecy in the scripture hath any private interpretation. ²¹ For the scripture came never by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.

³ I determined also, as soon as I had searched out diligently all things from the beginning, that then I would write unto thee, good Theophilus, ⁴ that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, whereof thou art informed.

³¹ These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ the son of God. And that ye in believing ye might have life through his name.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

¹³ These things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the son of God, that ye may know how that ye have everlasting life, and that ye may believe in the name of the son of God.

⁶ Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.

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.

¹⁶ "When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?

²¹ Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless. ¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

²⁹ The people in the land useth wicked extortion and robbery. They vex the poor and needy and oppress the stranger against right.

¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

¹² The LORD be judge between thee and me, and the LORD avenge me of thee. But mine hand be not upon thee.

¹⁵ The LORD be judge, and judge between thee and me, and see and plead my cause, and judge me free out of thine hand."

³⁹ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD that hath judged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and hath turned the wickedness of Nabal again upon his own head." And David sent to commune with Abigail, to the intent to take her to his wife.

¹ {A Psalm of David} Plead thou my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me, and fight thou against them that fight against me.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?"

¹ Give sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man.

⁵ He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

¹² Sure I am, that the LORD will avenge the poor, and maintain the cause of the helpless.

¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

¹ Wherefore woe be unto thee, O robber: shalt not thou be robbed also? And unto thee that layest wait: as who say there should no wait be laid for thee? Woe unto thee which doest hurt: even so shalt thou be hurt also. And as thou layest wait, so shall wait be laid for thee also.

³⁴ But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another.

³⁶ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will defend thy cause, and avenge thee: I will drink up her sea, and dry up her water springs.

⁹ I will bear the punishment of the LORD - For why? I have offended him - till he sit in judgment upon my cause, and see that I have right. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall see his righteousness.

⁸ Seeing thou hast spoiled many Heathen, therefore shall the remnant of the people spoil thee: because of men's blood, and for the wrong done in the land, in the city and unto all them that dwell therein.

²² An angry man stirreth up strife; and he that beareth evil will in his mind, doth much evil.

¹⁴ Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness? ¹⁵ What concord hath Christ with Belial? Either, what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? ¹⁶ How agreeth the temple of God with images? And ye are the temple of the living God, as said God, "I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God: and they shall be my people." ¹⁷ Wherefore, "Come out from among them, and separate yourselves," saith the Lord, "and touch none unclean thing: so will I receive you,

³⁵ but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works -

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

³³ Be not deceived: malicious speakings corrupt good manners.

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, thou hast fastened thine hand with another man: ² yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech. ³ Therefore my son, do this: and thou shalt be discharged, when thou art come into thy neighbour's danger. Go thy ways then soon, and entreat thy neighbour: ⁴ let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber. ⁵ Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁵ He that is surety for a stranger, hurteth himself; but he that meddleth not with suretyship, is sure.

¹⁸ Whoso promiseth by the hand, and is surety for another; he is a fool.

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.

²⁶ If thou take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the sun go down. ²⁷ For that is his coverlet only: even the raiment for his skin wherein he sleepeth: or else he will cry unto me and I will hear him, for I am merciful.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.

¹⁷ "'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

² For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.

⁴⁶ And he was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And then Joseph departed from Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁸ Happy are thy men: and happy are these thy servants, which stand ever before thee and hear thy wisdom.

²⁸ And this fellow Jeroboam was an active man. And when Solomon saw the young man, that he wrought so lustily in the work, he made him ruler over all the charges of the house of Joseph.

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

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

¹⁰ Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

²¹ Then his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: enter in into thy master's joy.'

²³ And his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: go in into thy master's joy.'

¹¹ Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.

² Preach the word, be fervent; be it in season, or out of season. Improve, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.