Proverbs 9 Cross References - CLV

¹ Wisdom has built her house; She has hewn out its seven columns. ² She has slaughtered her slaughter; She has blended her wine; Indeed, she has arranged her table." ³ She has sent forth her maidens; She is calling from the peaks of the town heights: ⁴ Whoever is simple, let him withdraw hither, She says to him who has lack of heart wisdom." ⁵ Come, dine on my bread, And drink of the wine I have blended." ⁶ Forsake your simple ways and live, And progress in the way of understanding." ⁷ He who admonishes a mocker is procuring dishonor to himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets himself a blemish." ⁸ Do not reprove a mocker lest he should hate you; Reprove a wise man, and he shall love you." ⁹ Give reproof to a wise man, and he shall be wiser still; Inform a righteous man, and he shall add to his education." ¹⁰ The starting point of wisdom is the fear of Yahweh, And the knowledge of the grand Holy One is understanding." ¹¹ For by me your days shall increase, And years of life shall be added to you." ¹² If you are wise, you are wise to your gain, And if you mock, you shall bear the results by yourself alone." ¹³ The woman, stupidity, is clamorous and simple, And she does not know anything at all." ¹⁴ She sits at the portal of her house, On a covered seat at the heights of the town, ¹⁵ Calling to those passing on the way, Those going straight along their paths:" ¹⁶ Let whoever is simple withdraw hither, And whoever has lack of heart wisdom; And she says to him:" ¹⁷ Stolen water is sweet, And bread eaten in concealments is pleasant." ¹⁸ But he does not know that the Rephaim are there, That those she has called are in the depths of the unseen."

² And he builds the house of the forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits [is] its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar-beams on the pillars;" ³ and [it is] covered with cedar above, on the sides that [are] on the forty and five pillars, fifteen in the row.

⁶ And the porch of the pillars he has made; fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its breadth, and the porch [is] before them, and pillars and a thick place [are] before them.

²¹ And he raises up the pillars for the porch of the temple, and he raises up the right pillar, and calls its name Jachin, and he raises up the left pillar, and calls its name Boaz;"

¹⁸ Now I, also, am saying to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will I be building My ecclesia, and the gates of the unseen shall not be prevailing against it."

⁹ For God's fellow workers are we. God's farm, God's building, are you." ¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is being granted to me, as a wise foreman I lay a foundation, yet another is building on it. Yet let each one beware how he is building on it." ¹¹ For other foundation can no one lay beside that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." ¹² Now if anyone is building on this foundation gold and silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, ¹³ each one's work will become apparent, for the day will make it evident, for it is being revealed by fire. And the fire, it will be testing each one's work - what kind it is." ¹⁴ If anyone's work will be remaining which he builds on it, he will get wages." ¹⁵ If anyone's work shall be burned up, he will forfeit it, yet he shall be saved, yet thus, as through fire."

⁹ and, knowing the grace which is being given to me, James and Cephas and John, who are supposed to be pillars, give to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we, indeed, are to be for the nations, yet they for the Circumcision-"

²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, ²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:" ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God's dwelling place, in spirit."

¹⁵ yet, if I should be tardy, that you may be perceiving how one must behave in God's house, which is the ecclesia of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth."

³ For this One is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by as much as He Who constructs it has more honor than the house." ⁴ For every house is constructed by someone, yet He Who constructs all is God." ⁵ And Moses, indeed, was faithful in His whole house as an attendant, for a testimony of that which shall be spoken." ⁶ Yet Christ, as a Son over His house-Whose house we are, that is, if we should be retaining the boldness and the glorying of the expectation confirmed unto the consummation."

⁵ you, also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, most acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. " ⁶ Because of this it is included in the scripture: Lo! I am laying in Zion a corner capstone, chosen, held in honor, and he who is believing on it may by no means be disgraced."

¹² '"The one who is conquering, him will I be making a pillar in the temple of My God, and he may be coming out nevermore, and I will be writing on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is descending out of heaven from My God, and My new name."

¹⁶ And seeing them is Joseph, and Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and saying is he to him who is over his household, "Bring the mortals to the house, and slaughter a slaughter and make ready, for with me shall the mortals eat bread at noon.

⁵ Come, dine on my bread, And drink of the wine I have blended."

³⁰ They have who delay over wine, Who come to investigate a blend."

² I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, Who has taught me; I would give you to drink of wine that is compounded, Of my pomegranate juice."

⁶ And Yahweh of hosts makes for all peoples, in this mountain, a feast of oils, a feast of lees, of oils from marrows, of filtered lees."

³ And he dispatches his slaves to call those invited to the wedding festivities, and they would not come." ⁴ Again he dispatches other slaves, saying, 'Say to those invited, "Lo! my luncheon have I made ready, my bulls and grain-fed animals have been sacrificed, and all is ready: Hither for the wedding festivities!"'" ⁵ Yet they, not caring, came away, one, indeed, to his own field, yet one to his merchandise." ⁶ Yet the rest, taking hold of his slaves, outrage and kill them." ⁷ Now the king is angered, and, sending his troops, destroys those murderers and sets their city in flames." ⁸ Then he is saying to his slaves, 'The wedding, indeed, is ready, yet those invited were not worthy." ⁹ Go, then, to the exits of the roads and whosoever you may be finding, call to the wedding festivities.'" ¹⁰ And, coming out into the roads, those slaves gathered all whom they found, both wicked and good, and filled is the wedding with those lying back at table." ¹¹ Now the king, entering to gaze at those lying back at table, perceived there a man who has not put on wedding apparel." ¹² And he is saying to him, 'Comrade, how did you enter here having no wedding apparel?' Yet he was still." ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, 'Binding his feet and hands, cast him out into outer darkness.' There shall be lamentation and gnashing of teeth." ¹⁴ For many are the called, yet few are the chosen."

¹⁶ Now He said to him, "A certain man made a great dinner, and invites many." ¹⁷ And he dispatches his slave at the dinner hour to say to those invited, 'Come, for already, it is ready!'"

⁷ Clean out, then, the old leaven, that you may be a fresh kneading, according as you are unleavened. For our Passover also, Christ, was sacrificed for our sakes" ⁸ so that we may be keeping the festival, not with old leaven, nor yet with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened sincerity and truth."

¹¹ Yahweh Himself gave the saying; The women who bore the tidings were a vast host;

²⁰ Wisdom is jubilating in the street; In the squares she is giving forth her voice. ²¹ At the top of the walls she is calling; At the portals of the gates in the city she is speaking her words: ²² How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge? ²³ May you turn back at my correction; Behold, let me utter what is in my spirit to you; Let me make known my words to you."

¹ Is not wisdom calling And comprehension giving forth her voice? ² At the summit of the heights upon the way, The meeting house of the tracks, there she is stationed." ³ At the side of the gates, at the edge of the town, The entry of the portals, there she makes her appeal."

¹⁴ She sits at the portal of her house, On a covered seat at the heights of the town,

³ And he dispatches his slaves to call those invited to the wedding festivities, and they would not come." ⁴ Again he dispatches other slaves, saying, 'Say to those invited, "Lo! my luncheon have I made ready, my bulls and grain-fed animals have been sacrificed, and all is ready: Hither for the wedding festivities!"'"

⁹ Go, then, to the exits of the roads and whosoever you may be finding, call to the wedding festivities.'"

⁴⁹ Therefore, also, God's Wisdom said, 'I shall be dispatching to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will be killing and banishing,'"

¹⁷ And he dispatches his slave at the dinner hour to say to those invited, 'Come, for already, it is ready!'"

²¹ And, coming along, the slave reports these things to his lord. Then being indignant, the householder said to his slave, 'Come out quickly into the squares and streets of the city, and lead in here the poor, and cripples, and blind, and lame.'" ²² And the slave said to him, 'Lord, what you enjoin is done, and still there is place.'" ²³ And the lord said to the slave, 'Come out into the roads and stone dikes, and compel them to enter, that my house may be crammed."

³⁷ Now on the last, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cries, saying, "If anyone should be thirsting, let him come to Me and drink."

²⁰ And Jesus answered him, "I with boldness have spoken to the world. I always teach in a synagogue and in the sanctuary where all the Jews are coming together, and in hiding I speak nothing."

¹⁵ Yet how should they be heralding if ever they should not be commissioned? According as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those bringing an evangel of good!

²⁰ For Christ, then, are we ambassadors, as of God entreating through us. We are beseeching for Christ's sake, "Be conciliated to God!" ²¹ For the One not knowing sin, He makes to be a sin offering for our sakes that we may be becoming God's righteousness in Him."

⁷ The law of Yahweh is flawless, restoring the soul; The testimony of Yahweh is faithful, making wise the simple;"

¹³⁰ The opening of Your words is enlightening, Making the simple proficient."

²² How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge?

³² But he who commits adultery with another's wife has lack of heart wisdom; He is causing ruin to his soul who does it.

⁵ To the simple:Understand prudence; And to the stupid:Understand heart wisdom.

¹⁶ Let whoever is simple withdraw hither, And whoever has lack of heart wisdom; And she says to him:"

²⁵ At that season, answering, Jesus said, "I am acclaiming Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hidest these things from the wise and intelligent and Thou dost reveal them to minors."

¹⁷ Seeing that you are saying that 'Rich am I!' and 'Rich have I become, and of nothing have I need!' and you are not aware that you are wretched and forlorn and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I am advising you to buy of Me gold refined by the fire, that you should be rich, and white garments, that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, that you may be observing."

¹⁷ And the spirit and the bride are saying, 'Come!' and let him who is hearing say, 'Come!' And let him who is thirsting come. Let him who will, take the water of life gratuitously."

²⁶ The humbled shall eat and shall be satisfied; And those seeking after Him shall praise Yahweh. May their hearts live for the future.

²⁹ Yea, to Him shall bow down All those about to be sleeping in the earth; Before Him shall crouch All those descending to the soil. And he who did not keep his soul alive--"

² She has slaughtered her slaughter; She has blended her wine; Indeed, she has arranged her table."

¹⁷ Stolen water is sweet, And bread eaten in concealments is pleasant."

¹ I come to my garden, my sister, O bride; I nip off my myrrh with my aromatics; I eat my wildwood fare with my honey; I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, associates! Drink and be drunken, friends!"

¹ Ho! Every thirsty one! Go to the water! And he who has no money, go, purchase and eat and drink, and go, purchase with no money and with no price, wine and milk." ² Why will you weigh out money for that which is not bread? And give your labor for that which gives no satisfaction? Hearken, yea hearken to Me, and eat what is good. And deliciousness in sleekness shall your soul enjoy." ³ Stretch out your ear and go to Me; hear Me, and your soul shall live in good. And I will contract with you a covenant eonian, the kindnesses of David that are faithful."

¹² And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Yahweh, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul has been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more." ¹³ Then rejoice does a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men--together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow, ¹⁴ And satisfied the soul of the priests [with] fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Yahweh."

²⁶ Now at their eating, Jesus, taking the bread, and blessing, breaks it, and, giving to the disciples, said, "Take, eat. This is My body." ²⁷ And taking the cup and giving thanks, He gives it to them, saying, "Drink of it all, ²⁸ for this is My blood of the new covenant, that is shed for many for the pardon of sins."

²⁷ Do not work for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining for life eonian, which the Son of Mankind will be giving to you, for this One God, the Father, seals."

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died." ⁵⁰ This is the Bread which is descending out of heaven that anyone may be eating of it and may not be dying. ⁵¹ I am the living Bread which descends out of heaven. If anyone should be eating of this Bread, he shall be living for the eon. Now the Bread also, which I shall be giving for the sake of the life of the world, is My flesh." ⁵² The Jews, then, fought with one another, saying, "How then can this one give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³ Jesus, then, said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If you should not be eating the flesh of the Son of Mankind and drinking His blood, you have no eonian life in yourselves." ⁵⁴ He who is masticating My flesh and drinking My blood has life eonian, and I shall be raising him in the last day, ⁵⁵ for My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink." ⁵⁶ He who is masticating My flesh and drinking My blood is remaining in Me, and I in him." ⁵⁷ According as the living Father commissions Me, I, also, am living because of the Father. And he who is masticating Me, he also will be living because of Me." ⁵⁸ This is the Bread which descends out of heaven. Not according as the fathers ate and died; he who is masticating this Bread shall be living for the eon."

⁴ I have not sat with men of hypocrisy, And with dissemblers I shall not enter." ⁵ I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And with the wicked I shall not sit." ⁶ I shall wash my palms in innocency, And I will go around Your altar, O Yahweh,

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and see, and stretch out your ear, And forget your people and the house of your father."

¹¹⁵ Go away from me, you evildoers; I will preserve the instructions of my Elohim."

¹¹ For in the way of wisdom I direct you; I cause you to tread in routes of uprightness.

¹⁴ In the path of the wicked, do not enter, And do not progress along the way of evil men." ¹⁵ Renounce it; do not pass within it; Swerve from it, and pass on."

³⁵ For whoever finds me will find life And shall gain hold of benevolence from Yahweh.

¹¹ For by me your days shall increase, And years of life shall be added to you."

¹⁷ He who keeps admonition is in the path to life, Yet he who forsakes reproof is led astray."

²⁰ He who walks with the wise becomes wise, Yet he who associates with the stupid is imperiled."

¹³ Enter through the cramped gate, for broad is the gate and spacious is the way which is leading away into destruction, and many are those entering through it." ¹⁴ Yet what a cramped gate and narrowed way is the one leading away into life, and few are those who are finding it."

²⁴ Be struggling to be entering through the cramped door, for I am saying to you, many will be seeking to enter and will not be strong enough."

⁴⁰ Besides, with more and different words, he conjures and entreated them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"

¹⁷ Wherefore, Come out of their midst and be severed, the Lord is saying. And touch not the unclean, and I will admit you,

⁴ And I hear another voice out of heaven, saying, "Come out of her, My people, lest you should be joint participants in her sins, and lest you should be getting of her calamities,

⁸ Behold, pray, my two daughters who have not known a man. Pray, forth will I bring them to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. But to these mortals you must not do anything evil, for therefore come they into the shadow of my rafters. ⁹ Yet saying are they, "Come close you, beyond.And saying are they, "The one who came to sojourn is judging, even as a judge! Now we will do more evil to you than to them.And urging are they the man Lot exceedingly, and close are they coming to break the door.

¹⁷ and it comes to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, `Are you he--the troubler of Israel?.

²⁰ And Ahab said unto Elijah, `Have you found me, O mine enemy?' and he said, `I have found--because of your selling yourself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh;"

²⁴ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draws nigh, and smites Micaiah on the cheek, and said, `Where [is] this--he has passed over--the Spirit of Yahweh--from me to speak with you?.

²⁷ and you have said, Thus said the king, Place you this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace..

²⁰ and the Spirit of Elohim has clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stands over-against the people, and said to them, `Thus said Elohim, Why are you transgressing the commands of Yahweh, and prosper not? because you have forsaken Yahweh--He does forsake you.. <sup>21</sup> And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Yahweh, <sup>22</sup> and Joash the king has not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slays his son, and in his death he said, `Yahweh does see, and require..

¹⁵ And the anger of Yahweh burns against Amaziah, and He sends unto him a prophet, and he said unto him, `Why have you sought the elohims of the people that have not delivered their people out of your hand?. <sup>16</sup> And it comes to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he said to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed you? cease for you; why do they smite you?' And the prophet ceases, and said, `I have known that Elohim has counselled to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel..

¹⁶ and they are mocking at the messengers of Elohim, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Yahweh against His people--till there is no healing.

¹² A mocker does not love any correction of himself; He does not go to the wise.

⁹ Do not speak into the ears of the stupid man, For he shall despise the intelligence of your declarations."

¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall admonish, yea admonish your companion so that you may not bear sin with him.

⁶ Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of the explorers of the land, tore their garment. ⁷ and said to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying:The land through which we passed to explore it is a very, very good land. ⁸ If Yahweh delights in us then He will bring us into this land, and He will give it to us. It is a land which is gushing with milk and honey. ⁹ Only against Yahweh do not revolt, and you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protecting shadow has withdrawn from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them. ¹⁰ Yet the whole congregation said to pelt them with stones. Then the glory of Yahweh appeared in a cloud on the tent of appointment to all the sons of Israel.

⁷ And Nathan said unto David, `You [are] the man! Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, I anointed you for king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;" <sup>8</sup> and I give to you the house of your lord, and the wives of your lord, into your bosom, and I give to you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to you such and such [things]. <sup>9</sup> `Wherefore have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have smitten by the sword, and his wife you have taken to you for a wife, and him you have slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon. ¹⁰ `And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house unto the eon, because you have despised Me, and do take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to you for a wife;" <sup>11</sup> thus said Yahweh, Lo, I am raising up against you evil, out of your house, and have taken your wives before your eyes, and given to your neighbor, and he has lain with your wives before the eyes of this sun;" <sup>12</sup> for you have done [it] in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.. <sup>13</sup> And David said unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Yahweh.' And Nathan said unto David, `Also--Yahweh has caused your sin to pass away; you do not die;" ¹⁴ only, because you have caused the enemies of Yahweh greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to you does surely die..

²³ and they declare to the king, saying, `Lo, Nathan the prophet;' and he comes in before the king, and bows himself to the king, on his face to the earth.

³² And king David said, `Call for me for Zadok the priest, and for Nathan the prophet, and for Benaiah son of Jehoiada;' and they come in before the king.

⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet--one man to seek Yahweh by him, and I have hated him, for he does not prophesy concerning me good, but evil--Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat said, `Let not the king say so..

⁵ Should the righteous one beat me, it were a kindness, And should he reprove me; it were oil on my head; May my head not repudiate it at all. But still, my prayer is against their evil deeds;"

¹⁸ Destitution and dishonor come to one who renounces admonition, Yet he who observes reproof shall be glorified."

²³ He who reproves a man shall find more grace afterward Than he who is slick of tongue.

¹ The man receiving reproofs who is still stiff necked Shall be broken in an instant, and there will be no healing."

⁶ You may not be giving that which is holy to curs, nor yet should you be casting your pearls in front of hogs, lest at some time they shall be trampling them with their feet and, turning, they should be tearing you."

¹⁴ Leave them! Blind guides are they of the blind! Now if the blind should be guiding the blind, both shall be falling into a pit."

¹¹ Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, for he was self-censured." ¹² For, before the coming of some from James, he ate together with those of the nations. Yet when they came, he shrank back, and severed himself, fearing those of the Circumcision." ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also play the hypocrite with him, so that Barnabas also was led away with their hypocrisy." ¹⁴ But when I perceived that they are not correct in their attitude toward the truth of the evangel, I said to Cephas in front of all, "If you, being inherently a Jew, are living as the nations, and not as the Jews, how are you compelling the nations to be judaizing?

⁴ For it is impossible for those once enlightened, besides tasting the celestial gratuity and becoming partakers of holy spirit, ⁵ and tasting the ideal declaration of God, besides the powerful deeds of the impending eon, ⁶ and falling aside, to be renewing them again to repentance while crucifying for themselves the Son of God again and holding Him up to infamy." ⁷ For land which is drinking the shower coming often on it, and bringing forth herbage fit for those because of whom it is being farmed also, is partaking of blessing from God;" ⁸ yet, bringing forth thorns and star thistles, it is disqualified and near a curse, whose consummation is burning."

¹⁵ And be deeming the patience of our Lord salvation, according as our beloved brother Paul also writes to you, according to the wisdom given to him, ¹⁶ as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things hard to apprehend, which the unlearned and unstable are twisting, as the rest of the scriptures also, to their own destruction."

⁵ The wise one may also hear and add to his education, And the man of understanding may acquire skills--"

¹² A pendant of gold and an eardrop of certified gold Is the reproof of a wise man upon a hearkening ear.

³ And we shall know--we shall pursue to know Yahweh; as the dawn is prepared we shall find Him, and He will come to us as a downpour, as the latter rain and the former rain of the land."

¹¹ Now, answering, He said to them that "To you has it been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, yet to those it has not been given." ¹² For anyone who has, to him shall be given, and he shall have a superfluity. Yet anyone who has not, that also which he has shall be taken away from him."

¹⁸ Yet be growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory now, as well as for the day of the eon. Amen!"

²⁰ And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all are aware." ²¹ I write not to you seeing that you are not acquainted with the truth, but that you are acquainted with it, and that no lie at all is of the truth."

¹³ These things I write to you that you who are believing in the name of the son of God may be perceiving that you have life eonian.

⁹ `And you, Solomon, my son, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Yahweh seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if you do seek Him, He is found of you, and if you do forsake Him, He casts you off for ever.

²⁸ And He said to mankind, Behold, the fear of Yahweh, it is wisdom, And to withdraw from evil is understanding.

¹⁰ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; All who practice it have a good insight. His praise is standing into the future.

⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; The foolish despise wisdom and discipline.

⁵ Then you shall understand the fear of Yahweh, And you shall find the knowledge of God."

³ I have not learned wisdom That I may know of the knowledge of the grand Holy One.

¹³ The terminus of the whole matter has been heard:Fear the One, Elohim, and keep His instructions, For this is the whole duty of humanity."

²⁷ All was given up to Me by My Father. And no one is recognizing the Son except the Father; neither is anyone recognizing the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son should be intending to unveil Him."

³ Now it is eonian life that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Him Whom Thou dost commission, Jesus Christ."

²⁰ Yet we are aware that the Son of God is arriving, and has given us a comprehension, that we know the True One, and we are in the True One, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This One is the true God and life eonian."

² that you may fear Yahweh your Elohim, so as to observe all His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

² For length of days and years of life And peace shall they add to you.

¹⁶ Length of days are in her right hand, And in her left hand are riches and glory."

²⁷ The fear of Yahweh shall add days, Yet the years of the wicked shall be shortened."

² Is it to El that a master is profitable? Rather the intelligent one is profitable to himself. ³ Is it delight to Him Who Suffices that you should be righteous? And should it be His gain that your ways become flawless?

²¹ Be careful, I pray, toward Him, and fare well, By these means good shall come to you.

⁶ If you sin, what effect do you have on Him, And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or what does He take from your hand?

²⁶ The toiler's soul toils for him, For his mouth prods him."

²² And now, you must not be mocking, lest your bonds should hold fast, for a conclusive and decisive matter I hear from my Lord, Yahweh of hosts, which He will do over the entire land."

²⁰ The soul that does sin--it does die. A son does not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father does not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him."

³ knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will be coming with scoffing, going according to their own desires" ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of His presence? For since the fathers were put to repose, all is continuing thus from the beginning of creation."

¹⁶ as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things hard to apprehend, which the unlearned and unstable are twisting, as the rest of the scriptures also, to their own destruction."

⁶ Lest you should ponder the path of life, Her routes rove about, yet you know not where."

¹¹ She is clamorous and stubborn; Her feet never tabernacle at her home;

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop Than share with a quarrelsome wife a house of partnership.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a wilderness land Than with a quarrelsome and vexatious wife.

⁴ he is conceited, versed in nothing, but morbid about questionings and controversies, out of which is coming envy, strife, calumnies, wicked suspicions,

¹⁰ And behold, a woman came out to meet him In the burnoose of a prostitute and constricted of heart." ¹¹ She is clamorous and stubborn; Her feet never tabernacle at her home; ¹² At times in the street, at times in the squares, And beside every corner she waits in ambush."

³ She has sent forth her maidens; She is calling from the peaks of the town heights:

¹³ She held him fast and kissed him; She set her face with impudence and said to him: ¹⁴ The sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; Today I paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore, I came forth to meet you, To seek your face early, and I have found you."

²⁵ Do not let your heart swerve to her ways; Do not stray into her tracks. ²⁶ For many are the mortally wounded she has cast down, And plentiful are all those killed by her." ²⁷ Her house is a road to the unseen, One descending to the chambers of death."

²⁷ For the prostitute is a deep pit, And the foreign woman is a narrow well." ²⁸ Indeed she waits in ambush like an abductor, And she adds to the treacherous ones among mankind."

⁴ Whoever is simple, let him withdraw hither, She says to him who has lack of heart wisdom."

⁶ And seeing is the woman that the tree is good for food, and that it brings a yearning to the eyes, and is to be coveted as the tree to make one intelligent. And taking is she of its fruit and is eating, and she is giving, moreover, to her husband with her, and they are eating."

²⁴ and he comes in unto the high place, and takes out of their hand, and lays up in the house, and sends away the men, and they go. ²⁵ And he has come in, and does stand by his lord, and Elisha said unto him, `Whence--Gehazi?' and he said, `Your servant went not hither or thither.. ²⁶ And he said unto him, `My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet you; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants? ²⁷ yea, the leprosy of Naaman does cleave to you, and to your seed, --to the eon;' and he goes out from before him--leprous as snow.

¹⁸ Do come, let us satiate ourselves with affection until the morning; Let us make ourselves joyous with love expressions." ¹⁹ For the husband is not in his home; He has gone on his way afar. ²⁰ He took a pouch of silver in his hand, And he shall come back to his home only with the day of full moon."

¹⁷ Congenial to a man is bread gained by falsehood, Yet afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel."

³¹ Do not stare at wine when it is red, When it casts its sparkle in the cup and goes down evenly." ³² Its aftereffect shall bite like a serpent And spread pain like a yellow viper.

²⁰ So also is the way of an adulterous woman; She eats and wipes off her mouth, And she says, I have not contrived lawlessness."

⁸ Now Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead."

¹² for it is a shame even to speak of the hidden things occurring, done by them."

¹⁴ Now each one is undergoing trial when he is drawn away and lured by his own desire. ¹⁵ Thereafter, the desire, conceiving, is bringing forth sin. Now sin, fully consummated, is teeming forth death."

⁵ {They do not know and are not understanding; In darkness are they walking about; All the foundations of the earth are slipping.{

¹⁸ For she slips down to death with her house And her routes to the Rephaim; ¹⁹ All who enter it shall not return, Nor shall they overtake the paths of life."

⁵ Her feet are descending to death; To the unseen her steps hold firm.

²⁶ For a woman of prostitution hunts for a cake of bread, Yet the adulterous wife of a man hunts the precious soul."

²⁷ Her house is a road to the unseen, One descending to the chambers of death."

⁵ For they want to be oblivious of this, that there were heavens of old, and an earth cohering out of water and through water, by the word of God;"