Proverbs 14 Cross References - ACV

¹ Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands. ² He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him. ³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. ⁴ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but by the strength of the ox is much increase. ⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness utters lies. ⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding. ⁷ Go into the presence of a foolish man, and thou shall not perceive the lips of knowledge. ⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit. ⁹ Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is good will. ¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy. ¹¹ The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall flourish. ¹² There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. ¹³ Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness. ¹⁴ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits. ¹⁵ A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going. ¹⁶ A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident. ¹⁷ He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated. ¹⁸ The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. ¹⁹ The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. ²⁰ The poor man is regarded inferior even by his own neighbor, but the rich man has many friends. ²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he. ²² Do they not err who devise evil? But mercy and truth are to those who devise good. ²³ In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty. ²⁴ The crown of the wise is their riches. The foolishness of fools is folly. ²⁵ A true witness delivers souls, but he who utters lies causes deceit. ²⁶ In the fear of LORD is strong confidence, and his sons shall have a place of refuge. ²⁷ The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. ²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. ²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly. ³⁰ A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones. ³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him. ³² An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death. ³³ Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the inward part of fools is made known. ³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. ³⁵ The king's favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be to him who causes shame.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

³¹ And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat. ²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.

¹³ The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing. ¹⁴ And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, ¹⁵ to call to those who pass by, who go right on their ways:

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

³ Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established, ⁴ and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

¹⁰ A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he shall have no lack of gain. ¹² She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. ¹³ She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships: she brings her bread from afar. ¹⁵ She also rises while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task to her maidens. ¹⁶ She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. ¹⁷ She girds her loins with strength, and makes strong her arms. ¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out by night. ¹⁹ She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. ²⁰ She stretches out her hand to the poor, yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy. ²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. ²² She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple. ²³ Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land. ²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers girdles to the merchant. ²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. ²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is on her tongue. ²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. ²⁸ Her sons rise up, and call her blessed. Her husband also, and he praises her. ²⁹ Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excel them all. ³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears LORD, she shall be praised. ³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

⁶ And Solomon said, Thou have shown to thy servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee. And thou have kept for him this great loving kindness, that thou have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

⁴ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

²⁸ And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

¹² He who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

¹ Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

⁶ Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.

⁵ My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

¹⁶ He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.

³¹ Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

²² And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and being well testified by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy agent to summon thee to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.

³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.

⁴ Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance? ⁵ But according to thy hardness, and thy impenitent heart, thou store up wrath to thyself in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God,

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, ³ devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good,

³ Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

²¹ Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

³ LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual. ² Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

⁴ My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

²⁵ He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be made fat.

²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was greater than its fellows.

⁹ that if thou will confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved. ¹⁰ For a man believes in the heart for righteousness, and he confesses with the mouth for salvation.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

¹⁸ For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

¹⁰ Because thou keep the word of my perseverance, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their life to the point of death.

⁵ And after these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. ⁶ And the seven agents came forth from the temple having the seven plagues, who were clothed in pure bright linen, and golden belts girded around their breasts.

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that is consumed because of injustice.

⁶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, ¹⁰ or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share. ¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things?

¹⁶ Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

¹ Thou shall not take up a false report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

¹³ And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

¹² And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper, for LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king. ¹³ And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak thou good. ¹⁴ And Micaiah said, As LORD lives, what LORD says to me, that I will speak.

¹⁹ a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

¹⁷ He who utters truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness, deceit.

⁵ A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

²⁵ A true witness delivers souls, but he who utters lies causes deceit.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall perish.

¹⁸ Open thou my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

⁹⁸ Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.

⁹ They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

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

² A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

¹² See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

²⁰ Seek to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

⁹ The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of LORD, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

²² The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye is sound, thy whole body will be bright. ²³ But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!

²⁵ Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike. ²⁶ Yea, Father, because this way it was done pleasing in thy sight. ²⁷ All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

¹¹ And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. ²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly. ²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting. ²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

³¹ But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

¹⁸ Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

² If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

³ Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation. ⁵ For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

⁶ Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.

²⁰ Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

²⁷ To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

¹¹ But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

¹¹ And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them.

¹⁰ The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.

⁵ O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

⁷³ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to thee.

⁹ Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.

²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and behold those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

¹⁷ Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. ¹⁰ For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

¹³ But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.

¹⁵ And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water, ⁸ saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane. ⁹ For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, whereas visitation is to him from the Lord.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

⁴ so thou shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

³⁵ For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

²³ It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, and so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

² A good man shall obtain favor of LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

¹⁵ Good understanding gives favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard.

¹⁸ As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death, ¹⁹ so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not in sport?

²⁰ So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no iniquity.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

¹⁸ that they told you that there will be scoffers during the last time, going according to their own desires of irreverences.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

¹⁰ And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to LORD, and wept much.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is vexed within her, and LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.

² O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

¹ My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁴ The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

¹³ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

¹⁴ So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away. And I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of LORD was strong upon me.

³³ And he takes Peter and James and John with him, and began to be greatly disturbed, and very distressed. ³⁴ And he says to them, My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain ye here, and watch.

²⁷ Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But because of this I came to this hour.

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphaned. I am coming to you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a dwelling with him.

⁷ And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸ Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which none knows except he who receives it.

⁶ if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

¹⁴ He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors. ¹⁵ There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes. ¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place. ²² For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

² His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

³ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.

³³ The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

⁷ The wicked are overthrown, and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

¹² A righteous man considers the house of the wicked: the wicked are overthrown to ruin.

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

¹¹ And LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones. And thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. ¹² And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

⁴ I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

²⁶ And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise hearkens to counsel.

²⁵ There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

¹² There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

¹³ Enter ye in by the narrow gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter through it. ¹⁴ How narrow is the gate, and restricted the way, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

²⁴ Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

²¹ What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

³ For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

²² But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

² I said of laughter, It is mad, and of mirth, What does it do?

¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy. For my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

⁵ It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ⁶ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

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

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

⁹ Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief. ⁸ Because of this her plagues will come in one day, death, and grief, and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, because strong is the Lord, the God who judged her.

³¹ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. ³² For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

¹⁴ A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the actions of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not intermeddle with its joy.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

⁵ Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

⁵ Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

³¹ Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says the lord LORD.

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁶ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

⁴ But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

⁸ Because he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

¹² Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

²⁶ Make the path of thy feet level, and let all thy ways be established.

⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

³ A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹² A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself. The simple pass on, and suffer for it.

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

⁷ who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God.

¹⁸ For such kind serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their smooth words and elegant speech they deceive the hearts of the naive. ¹⁹ For your obedience reached to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be indeed wise in the good and pure in the evil.

¹⁴ So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

⁹ And Esau said, I have enough, my brother, let that which thou have be thine.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. ¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.

¹⁸ And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they come out for war, take them alive.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. ²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

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

⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart from evil.

¹⁴ Happy is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.

⁹ If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

¹⁷ For Herod himself having sent forth, he arrested John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he married her. ¹⁸ For John said to Herod, It is not permitted for thee to have thy brother's wife. ¹⁹ And Herodias was resentful toward him, and wanted to kill him. And she could not,

²⁴ And having gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the immerser. ²⁵ And having come in straightaway with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I want that thou may give me, of it on a platter, the head of John the immerser.

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we also blind?

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

⁶ But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

⁵ Then king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, who dares presume in his heart to do so? ⁶ And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

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

¹⁶ A fool's vexation is instantly known, but a prudent man conceals shame.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

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

³² He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

²² An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. ²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich. ²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy. ²⁹ Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her. ⁹ She will give to thy head a garland of grace, a crown of beauty she will deliver to thee.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart. ³⁰ The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.

¹⁹ O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

³ And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

²⁹ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Then fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

¹⁸ Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

⁴ And when the chief Shepherd is made known, ye will receive the unfading crown of glory.

⁶ And Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

²⁸ And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

⁸ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat LORD, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to LORD.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Entreat LORD, for there has been enough of these mighty thunderings and hail, and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

⁸ And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and bow themselves down to me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people who follow thee. And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morsel of bread.

¹² And Jehoshaphat said, The word of LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

⁷ And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. ⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

¹⁴ They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. And a foolish man shall be servant to a wise man of heart.

¹⁴ And the sons of those who afflicted thee shall come bending to thee. And all those who despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet. And they shall call thee The city of LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. ¹⁰ Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see my desire upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places. They shall come with fear to LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

³ And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says LORD of hosts.

³⁹ And having come they besought them, and when they brought them out, they asked them to go out of the city.

⁹ Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them so that they will come and bow down before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee.

² And all the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down, nor do him reverence.

¹⁰ Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home, and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife. ¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

²¹ For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid. ²² Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance? ²³ Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁰ They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

⁴ Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts. ⁷ All the brothers of a poor man regard him inferior, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues with words, but they are gone.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

⁵ Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou. ⁶ If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

²⁴ For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.

¹ Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil. ² LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He shall maintain his cause in judgment,

⁹ He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

²⁴ There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want. ²⁵ The generous soul shall be made prosperous, and he who waters shall also be watered himself.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

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

³ When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach.

¹⁷ He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

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

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days. ² Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh? ⁸ Then thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily. And thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory of LORD shall be thy rearward. ⁹ Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly, ¹⁰ and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in, ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and fed thee, or thirsting, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ And when did we see thee weak, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me. ⁴¹ Then he will also say to those at the left hand, Depart from me, ye accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his agents. ⁴² For I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me. ⁴⁴ Then they will also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or weak, or in prison, and did not serve thee? ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me. ⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

³⁰ Give to every man who asks thee, and from him who takes away thy personal things do not demand them back. ³¹ And as ye desire that men would do to you, do ye also to them likewise. ³² And if ye love those who love you, what credit is for you? For even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if ye do good to those who do good to you, what credit is for you? For even sinners do the same. ³⁴ And if ye lend to whom ye hope to receive, what credit is for you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. ³⁵ But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad. ³⁶ Become ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

⁹ And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men.

³⁵ I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

¹² so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?

¹⁴ What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him? ¹⁵ And if a brother or sister may be unclothed, and may be destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit?

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him. ²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

²⁷ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

⁸ But LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou did well that it was in thy heart.

¹⁰ All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

⁷ He shall abide before God forever. O prepare loving kindness and truth that they may preserve him.

²⁹ Do not devise evil against thy neighbor, since he dwells securely by thee.

¹⁷ He who is soon angry will deal foolishly. And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²² That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. ⁸ But a noble man devises noble things, and in noble things he shall continue.

⁷ Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ He who winks with the eye causes sorrow. And a prating fool shall fall.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work.

¹⁹ He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows after vanity shall have poverty enough.

³ For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

²⁷ Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat. ¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies. ¹² Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.

¹³ And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving. ¹¹ And we earnestly desire each of you to show the same diligence toward the full assurance of the hope until the end,

¹⁰ For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names. ¹² Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³ This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah.

²² Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

¹¹ Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea, it is more excellent for those who see the sun. ¹² For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

⁶ And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of LORD is thy treasure.

⁹ And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the mammon of unrighteousness, so that, when ye cease, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously daily. ²⁰ But there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been placed near his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores. ²² And it came to pass for the poor man to die and be carried by the agents to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom. ²⁴ And having cried out, he said, Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame. ²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness utters lies.

²¹ testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

²⁶ Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon thy feet, for I appeared to thee for this, to appoint thee an assistant and a witness both of things that thou saw, and of the things that I will make visible to thee, ¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me. ¹⁹ Whereupon, King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

¹ But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience having been seared with a hot iron, ³ forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

³ Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

⁷ The agent of LORD encamps round about those who fear him, and delivers them. ⁸ O taste and see that LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. ⁹ O fear LORD, ye his sanctified, for there is no want to those who fear him. ¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing. ¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me. I will teach you the fear of LORD.

⁶ for he shall never be moved. A righteous man shall be had in everlasting remembrance. ⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.

¹³ He will bless those who fear LORD, both small and great. ¹⁴ LORD increase you more and more, you and your sons.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil. ⁸ It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

²⁵ Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. ²⁶ For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.

¹⁰ The name of LORD is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it, and is safe.

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

¹⁸ It is good that thou should take hold of this, yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand. For he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors around thee. Hide thyself for a little moment until the indignation be passed over. ²¹ For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

¹¹ LORD said, Truly I will strengthen thee for good. Truly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their sons after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. And I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

¹⁶ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name. ¹⁷ And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. ¹⁸ Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

² But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.

¹⁰ For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul, ¹¹ discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee, ¹² to deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things, ¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil, ¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, ¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;

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

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

⁶ And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.

²² And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. ²¹ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

²⁷ And the sons of Israel were mustered, and were supported, and went against them. And the sons of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids, but the Syrians filled the country.

³² In those days LORD began to cut off from Israel. And Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel, ³³ from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

⁷ For he did not leave to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

³ Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men who were upon the face of the earth.

⁸ Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her.

¹¹ The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man, ²⁵ lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

⁸ Go not forth hastily to strive. What will thou do in the end of it when thy neighbor has put thee to shame?

²⁸ He whose spirit is without restraint is a city that is broken down and without walls.

⁶ Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to be heated. ²⁰ And he commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men were bound in their coats, their tunics, and their head coverings, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king. ²⁵ He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no harm. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.

⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up. ⁵ It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil,

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

² For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

¹⁰ A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes that I be not put to shame.

⁸ It will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

²³ Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

²² A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

⁹ And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.

⁵ Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor, happy is he.

² The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all.

¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

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

⁸ For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

⁷ But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, so that ye may also abound in this kindness. ⁸ I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love. ⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ My little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth. ¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and will assure our hearts before him. ²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

²¹ And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.

¹⁸ I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

²⁵ But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth. ²⁶ And after my skin, this body, is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ whom I, even I, shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place. ²² For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand.

¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

⁴ Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a happy end to the man of peace.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

¹⁵ Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.

¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

²⁶ This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God has numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ²⁷ TEKEL, thou are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. ²⁸ PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

²⁹ Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word,

²¹ Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come.

²⁴ I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins.

²² And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.

⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

⁸ And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

²³ And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil work, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, says the Spirit, so that they may rest from their toils, and their works follow with them.

²³ A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

¹⁶ Every prudent man works with knowledge, but a fool flaunts folly.

² The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.

²⁸ The heart of a righteous man meditates to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

¹¹ A fool utters all his anger, but a wise man keeps it back and calms it.

³ Yea also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as LORD our God is whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth, ² and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken to the voice of LORD thy God: ³ Blessed shall thou be in the city, and blessed shall thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ⁶ Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out. ⁷ LORD will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ LORD will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou put thy hand to. And he will bless thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ⁹ LORD will establish thee for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou are called by the name of LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And LORD will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which LORD swore to thy fathers to give thee. ¹² LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow. ¹³ And LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail. And thou shall only be above, and thou shall not be beneath, if thou shall hearken to the commandments of LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do, ¹⁴ and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shall thou be in the city, and cursed shall thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. ¹⁹ Cursed shall thou be when thou come in, and cursed shall thou be when thou go out. ²⁰ LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou put thy hand to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the evil of thy doings, by which thou have forsaken me. ²¹ LORD will make the pestilence cling to thee, until he has consumed thee from off the land, where thou go in to possess it. ²² LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew. And they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. ²⁴ LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From the sky it shall come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies. Thou shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them. And thou shall be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away. ²⁷ LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which thou cannot be healed. ²⁸ LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of mind, ²⁹ and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee. ³⁰ Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shall not eat of it. Thy donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shall have none to save thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand. ³³ The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always, ³⁴ so that thou shall be mad because of the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see. ³⁵ LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which thou cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shall set over thee, to a nation that thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers. And there thou shall serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away. ³⁸ Thou shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹ Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Thou shall have olive trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shall not anoint thyself with the oil, for thine olive shall drop off. ⁴¹ Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. ⁴³ The sojourner who is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher, and thou shall come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou shall be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou hearkened not to the voice of LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee, ⁴⁶ and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever. ⁴⁷ Because thou served not LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, ⁵¹ and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed, that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish. ⁵² And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, in which thou trusted, throughout all thy land. And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which LORD thy God has given thee. ⁵³ And thou shall eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemies shall distress thee. ⁵⁴ The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining, ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷ and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her sons whom she shall bear, for she shall eat them secretly for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD, ⁵⁹ then LORD will make thy calamities extraordinary, and the calamities of thy seed, even great calamities and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses and of long continuance. ⁶⁰ And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou were afraid of, and they shall cling to thee. ⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every calamity, which is not written in the book of this law, them LORD will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou did not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. And ye shall be plucked from off the land where thou go in to possess it. ⁶⁴ And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot, but LORD will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shall say, Would it were evening! and at evening thou shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shall fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shall see. ⁶⁸ And LORD will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to thee, Thou shall see it no more again. And there ye shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

¹⁸ Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood, ¹⁹ and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. ²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ And LORD will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. ²² And the generation to come, your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the calamities of that land, and the sicknesses with which LORD has made it sick. ²³ The whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, a burning. It is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath, ²⁴ even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given to them. ²⁷ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book. ²⁸ And LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

⁶ Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the sons of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. ⁷ And the people served LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of LORD that he had wrought for Israel. ⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. ¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them that did not know LORD, nor yet the work which he had wrought for Israel. ¹¹ And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and served the Baalim. ¹² And they forsook LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them. And they provoked LORD to anger. ¹³ And they forsook LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them. And he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, how thou went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. ³ Israel was holiness to LORD, the first-fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come upon them, says LORD. ⁴ Hear ye the word of LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain? ⁶ Nor did they say, Where is LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt? ⁷ And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it. But when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. ⁸ The priests did not say, Where is LORD? And those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. ⁹ Therefore I will yet contend with you, says LORD, and I will contend with your son's sons. ¹⁰ For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see, and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. ¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. ¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be ye very desolate, says LORD. ¹³ For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. ¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Is he a homebred one? Why has he become a prey? ¹⁵ The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant. ¹⁶ The sons also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head. ¹⁷ Have thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou have forsaken LORD thy God when he led thee by the way? ¹⁸ And now what have thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, LORD of hosts. ²⁰ For from old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds. And thou said, I will not serve, for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou bowed thyself, playing the harlot. ²¹ Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? ²² For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says the lord LORD. ²³ How can thou say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baalim? See thy way in the valley. Know what thou have done, a swift dromedary traversing her ways, ²⁴ a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind in her desire. In her time of estrus who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month they shall find her. ²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

¹ Again the word of LORD came to me, saying, ² Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³ and say, Thus says the lord LORD to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite. ⁴ And as for thy nativity, in the day thou were born thy navel was not cut, nor were thou washed in water to cleanse thee. Thou were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ⁵ No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things to thee, to have compassion upon thee, but thou were cast out in the open field. For thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou were born. ⁶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said to thee, in thy blood, Live! Yea, I said to thee, in thy blood, Live! ⁷ I caused thee to multiply as that which grows in the field, and thou increased and grew great. And thou attained to excellent ornament, thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown. Yet thou were naked and bare. ⁸ Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, says the lord LORD, and thou became mine. ⁹ Then I washed thee with water. Yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. ¹⁰ I also clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee with a certain skin. And I girded thee around with fine linen, and covered thee with silk. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. ¹² And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head. ¹³ Thus thou were decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou ate fine flour, and honey, and oil. And thou were very beautiful, and thou prospered to royalty. ¹⁴ And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty. For it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon thee, says the lord LORD. ¹⁵ But thou trusted in thy beauty, and played the harlot because of thy renown, and poured out thy whoredoms on everyone who passed by; his it was. ¹⁶ And thou took of thy garments, and made high places for thee, decked with various colors, and played the harlot upon them, things which should not come, nor should it be. ¹⁷ Thou also took thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and made for thee images of men, and played the harlot with them. ¹⁸ And thou took thy embroidered garments, and covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them. ¹⁹ My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour and oil and honey, with which I fed thee, thou even set it before them for a sweet savor, and thus it was, says the lord LORD. ²⁰ Moreover thou have taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou have borne to me, and thou have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, ²¹ that thou have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them? ²² And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou have not remembered the days of thy youth when thou were naked and bare, and were weltering in thy blood. ²³ And it has come to pass according to all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! says the lord LORD), ²⁴ that thou have built thyself a vaulted place, and have made thee a lofty place in every street. ²⁵ Thou have built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and have made thy beauty an abomination. And have opened thy feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom. ²⁶ Thou have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh, and have multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger. ²⁷ Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thy portion, and delivered thee to the will of those who hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way. ²⁸ Thou have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou were insatiable. Yea, thou have played the harlot with them, and yet thou were not satisfied. ²⁹ Thou have moreover multiplied thy whoredom to the land of traffic, to Chaldea, and yet thou were not satisfied with this. ³⁰ How weak is thy heart, says the lord LORD, seeing thou do all these things, the work of an impudent harlot, ³¹ in that thou build thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and make thy lofty place in every street. And have not even been as a harlot, in that thou scorn hire. ³² A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband! ³³ They give gifts to all harlots, but thou give thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy whoredoms. ³⁴ And thou are different from other women in thy whoredoms, in that none follows thee to play the harlot. And whereas thou give a wage, and no wage is given to thee, therefore thou are different. ³⁵ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of LORD. ³⁶ Thus says the lord LORD: Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy sons, that thou gave to them, ³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou have taken pleasure, and all those whom thou have loved, with all those whom thou have hated, I will even gather them against thee on every side. And I will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness. ³⁸ And I will judge thee, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places. And they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels, and they shall leave thee naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. ⁴¹ And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women. And I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shall also give no wage any more. ⁴² So I will cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will no more be angry. ⁴³ Because thou have not remembered the days of thy youth, but have raged against me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, says the lord LORD. And thou shall not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations. ⁴⁴ Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ⁴⁵ Thou are the daughter of thy mother, who loathes her husband and her sons. And thou are the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ And thine elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at thy left hand, she and her daughters. And thy younger sister, who dwells at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet thou have not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations, but, like it was a very little thing, thou were more corrupt than they in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, says the lord LORD, Sodom thy sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as thou have done, thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw fit. ⁵¹ Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou have multiplied thine abominations more than they, and have justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou have done. ⁵² Thou also, bear thou thine own shame, in that thou have given judgment for thy sisters, through thy sins that thou have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou have justified thy sisters. ⁵³ And I will turn back again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them, ⁵⁴ that thou may bear thine own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that thou have done, in that thou are a comfort to them. ⁵⁵ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. ⁵⁶ For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, ⁵⁷ before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to thee round about. ⁵⁸ Thou have borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, says LORD. ⁵⁹ For thus says the lord LORD: I will also deal with thee as thou have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. ⁶⁰ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant. ⁶¹ Then thou shall remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shall receive thy sisters, thine elder sisters and thy younger, and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. ⁶² And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shall know that I am LORD, ⁶³ that thou may remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou have done, says the lord LORD.

¹ Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying, ² And thou, son of man, will thou judge, will thou judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations. ³ And thou shall say, Thus says the lord LORD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and who makes idols against herself to defile her! ⁴ Thou have become guilty in thy blood that thou have shed, and are defiled in thine idols which thou have made. And thou have caused thy days to draw near, and have come even to thy years. Therefore I have made thee a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. ⁵ Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one, full of tumult. ⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood. ⁷ In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ Thou have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths. ⁹ Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness. ¹⁰ In thee they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In thee they have humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. ¹¹ And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another in thee has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. ¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD. ¹³ Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee. ¹⁴ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, LORD, have spoken it, and will do it. ¹⁵ And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries, and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee. ¹⁶ And thou shall be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations. And thou shall know that I am LORD. ¹⁷ And the word of LORD came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver. ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because ye have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem ²⁰ as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it. So I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. ²¹ Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst of it. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so ye shall be melted in the midst of it. And ye shall know that I, LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you. ²³ And the word of LORD came to me, saying,

¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended in Baal, he died.

⁴ A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil thing. ⁵ He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure. ⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he shall minister to me. ⁷ He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood shall not be established before my eyes. ⁸ Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of LORD.

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

² A servant who deals wisely shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass. ¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

²⁶ He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

²⁶ A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.

¹¹ He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

⁵ Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

¹² If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and wise bondman, whom his lord appointed over his service, to give them the provision on time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that bondman, whom his lord when he comes will find so doing. ⁴⁷ Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all things being possessed by him. ⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming, ⁴⁹ and should begin to beat the fellow bondmen, and to eat and drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the lord of that bondman will come in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, ⁵¹ and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

²¹ And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman. Thou were faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman. Thou were faithful over a few things, I will appoint thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

⁴² And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise manager whom his lord will appoint over his service to give the provision on time? ⁴³ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord when he comes will find so doing. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over the things being possessed by him. ⁴⁵ But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late to come, and should begin to beat the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, ⁴⁶ the lord of that bondman will arrive in a day that he does not expect, and in an hour that he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will place his portion with the unbelieving. ⁴⁷ And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much, ⁴⁸ but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.