Bible verses about "virtue" | Wycliffe

¹ The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel; ² to kunne wisdom and kunnyng; ³ to vndurstonde the wordis of prudence; and to take the lernyng of teching; to take riytfulnesse, and dom, and equyte; ⁴ that felnesse be youun to litle children, and kunnyng, and vndurstonding to a yong wexynge man. ⁵ A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails. ⁶ He schal perseyue a parable, and expownyng; the wordis of wise men, and the derk figuratif spechis of hem. ⁷ The drede of the Lord is the bigynning of wisdom; foolis dispisen wisdom and teching. ⁸ My sone, here thou the teching of thi fadir, and forsake thou not the lawe of thi modir; ⁹ that grace be addid, ethir encreessid, to thin heed, and a bie to thi necke. ¹⁰ Mi sone, if synneris flateren thee, assente thou not to hem. ¹¹ If thei seien, Come thou with vs, sette we aspies to blood, hide we snaris of disseitis ayens an innocent without cause; ¹² swolowe we him, as helle swolowith a man lyuynge; and al hool, as goynge doun in to a lake; we schulen fynde al preciouse catel, ¹³ we schulen fille oure housis with spuylis; sende thou lot with vs, ¹⁴ o purs be of vs alle; ¹⁵ my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem. ¹⁶ For the feet of hem rennen to yuel; and thei hasten to schede out blood. ¹⁷ But a net is leid in veyn bifore the iyen of briddis, that han wengis. ¹⁸ Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis. ¹⁹ So the pathis of ech auerouse man rauyschen the soulis of hem that welden. ²⁰ Wisdom prechith with outforth; in stretis it yyueth his vois. ²¹ It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis, ²² and seith, Hou long, ye litle men in wit, louen yong childhod, and foolis schulen coueyte tho thingis, that ben harmful to hem silf, and vnprudent men schulen hate kunnyng? ²³ Be ye conuertid at my repreuyng; lo, Y schal profre forth to you my spirit, and Y schal schewe my wordis. ²⁴ For Y clepide, and ye forsoken; Y helde forth myn hond, and noon was that bihelde. ²⁵ Ye dispisiden al my councel; and chargiden not my blamyngis. ²⁶ And Y schal leiye in youre perisching; and Y schal scorne you, whanne that, that ye dreden, cometh to you. ²⁷ Whanne sodeyne wretchidnesse fallith in, and perisching bifallith as tempest; whanne tribulacioun and angwisch cometh on you. ²⁸ Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me. ²⁹ For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord, ³⁰ nether assentiden to my councel, and depraueden al myn amendyng. ³¹ Therfor thei schulen ete the fruytis of her weie; and thei schulen be fillid with her counseils. ³² The turnyng awei of litle men in wit schal sle hem; and the prosperite of foolis schal leese hem. ³³ But he that herith me, schal reste with outen drede; and he schal vse abundaunce, whanne the drede of yuels is takun awei.

³⁶ Maistir, which is a greet maundement in the lawe? ³⁷ Jhesus seide to him, Thou schalt loue thi Lord God, of al thin herte, and in al thi soule, and in al thi mynde. ³⁸ This is the firste and the moste maundement. ³⁹ And the secounde is lijk to this; Thou schalt loue thi neiyebore as thi silf.

¹⁵ But if thi brother synneth ayens thee, go thou, and repreue hym, bitwixe thee and hym aloone; if he herith thee, thou hast wonnun thi brother. ¹⁶ And if he herith thee not, take with thee oon or tweyne, that euery word stonde in the mouth of tweyne or thre witnessis. ¹⁷ And if he herith not hem, seie thou to the chirche. But if he herith not the chirche, be he as an hethen and a pupplican to thee.

¹⁷ Therfor if ony newe creature is in Crist, the elde thingis ben passid. ¹⁸ And lo! alle thingis ben of God, which recounselide vs to hym bi Crist, and yaf to vs the seruyce of recounselyng. ¹⁹ And God was in Crist, recounselynge to hym the world, not rettynge to hem her giltes, and puttide in vs the word of recounselyng. ²⁰ Therfor we vsen message for Crist, as if God monestith bi vs; we bisechen for Crist, be ye recounselid to God. ²¹ God the fadir made hym synne for vs, which knewe not synne, that we schulden be maad riytwisnesse of God in hym.

¹ But we helpynge monesten, that ye resseyuen not the grace of God in veyn. ² For he seith, In tyme wel plesinge Y haue herd thee, and in the dai of heelthe Y haue helpid thee. Lo! now a tyme acceptable, lo! now a dai of heelthe.

³⁰ For we knowen him that seide, To me veniaunce, and Y schal yelde. And eft, For the Lord schal deme his puple.

¹ Nile ye deme, `that ye be not demed; for in what doom ye demen, ² ye schulen be demed, and in what mesure ye meten, it schal be meten ayen to you.

¹³ and support ye echon other, and foryyue to you silf, if ony man ayens ony hath a querele; as the Lord foryaf to you, so also ye.

¹¹ The herte of hir hosebond tristith in hir; and sche schal not haue nede to spuylis. ¹² Sche schal yelde to hym good, and not yuel, in alle the daies of hir lijf. ¹³ Sche souyte wolle and flex; and wrouyte bi the counsel of hir hondis. ¹⁴ Sche is maad as the schip of a marchaunt, that berith his breed fro fer. ¹⁵ And sche roos bi nyyt, and yaf prey to hir meyneals, and metis to hir handmaidis. ¹⁶ Sche bihelde a feeld, and bouyte it; of the fruyt of hir hondis sche plauntide a vyner. ¹⁷ Sche girde hir leendis with strengthe, and made strong hir arm. ¹⁸ Sche taastide, and siy, that hir marchaundie was good; hir lanterne schal not be quenchid in the niyt. ¹⁹ Sche putte hir hondis to stronge thingis, and hir fyngris token the spyndil. ²⁰ Sche openyde hir hond to a nedi man, and stretchide forth hir hondis to a pore man.

⁹ He that goith simpli, goith tristili; but he that makith schrewid hise weies, schal be opyn.

² in which ye ben clepid, with al mekenesse and myldenesse, with pacience supportinge ech other in charite,

⁵ And bringe ye in alle bisynesse, and mynystre ye in youre feith vertu, and `in vertu kunnyng; ⁶ in kunnyng abstinence, in abstynence pacience, in pacience pitee; ⁷ in pitee, love of britherhod, and in loue of britherhod charite. ⁸ For if these ben with you, and ouercomen, thei schulen not make you voide, nethir with out fruyt, in the knowyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist.

⁸ Fro hennus forth, britheren, what euere thingis ben sothe, what euere thingis chast, what euere thingis iust, what euere thingis hooli, what euere thingis able to be louyd, what euere thingis of good fame, if ony vertu, if ony preising of discipline, thenke ye these thingis,

⁵ And bringe ye in alle bisynesse, and mynystre ye in youre feith vertu, and `in vertu kunnyng;