Proverbs 4 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Hear, children, the instructions of a father; and attend to know the meaning: ² for I am giving you a good gift: forsake not my law: ³ for I was a son obedient to a father; and beloved in the sight of a mother: ⁴ and they said when they taught me, "Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our commandments; do not forget; ⁵ overlook not the dictate of my mouth: ⁶ forsake it not, and it will defend thee: love it and it will preserve thee: ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ secure it and it will exalt thee: honour it that it may embrace thee: ⁹ that it may be to thy head a crown of graces and cover thee with a crown of pleasure. ¹⁰ Hear my son and receive my words; that, when the years of thy life shall be multiplied, thou mayst have many ways of livelihood: ¹¹ for I am teaching thee ways of wisdom; and confirming thee in right paths. ¹² For when thou goest, thy steps will not be straitened: and when thou runnest thou shalt not be tired. ¹³ Take fast hold of mine instruction, let it not go: but keep it for thyself during thy life. ¹⁴ Go not in the ways of wicked men; nor be fond of the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵ In what place soever they encamp, go not thither: but turn away from them and keep at a distance: ¹⁶ for they cannot sleep. Unless they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot lie down to rest. ¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness; and drink plentifully of the wine of violence. ¹⁸ But the paths of the just shine like light; shining more and more until it is perfect day. ¹⁹ But the ways of the wicked being dark; they know not at what they stumble. ²⁰ Attend, my son, to my speech, and incline thine ear to my words. ²¹ That thy fountains may not fail thee, keep them in thy heart; ²² for they are life to them who find them and health to all flesh. ²³ Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are the issues of life. ²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee. ²⁵ Let thine eyes look straight forward and thine eyelids wink justly. ²⁶ Make straight paths with thy feet and order all thy ways right. ²⁷ Turn not to the right, nor the left; but turn away thy foot from an evil way; for God knoweth the ways on the right, but those on the left are crooked. But he will make thy paths straight and conduct thy steps in peace.

¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me: and I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father and reject not the maxims of thy mother:

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin and hide it with thee, ² thine ear will hearken to wisdom; and thou wilt apply thy heart to understanding, and transmit it for instruction to thy son. ³ For if thou wilt call upon wisdom: and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴ if thou wilt seek for it as silver; and search for it as for treasures; ⁵ then thou shalt understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of God.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thine ear to my words,

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the maxims of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them continually on thy mind: and tie them as a chain around thy neck. ²² When thou walkest, take this along and let it be with thee: and when thou sleepest, let it guard thee; that when thou awakest, it may talk with thee. ²³ For the command of a law is a lamp and light; and reproof and instruction is the way of life,

⁴ Implore Wisdom to be thy sister, and make Understanding thine acquaintance:

³² Now therefore, my son hearken to me: ³³ [Omitted] ³⁴ happy is the man who will hearken to me: and the man who will keep my ways; watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ For my ways are the ways of life; and volition is obtained from the Lord. ³⁶ But they who sin against me act wickedly against their own souls; and they who hate me love death."

²⁰ Hear my son, the instruction of thy father that thou mayst be wise in thy latter days.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear to the words of the wise; and hear my discourse and apply thy heart;

¹¹ how, as you know, we [exhorted] every one of you, as a father would his children, ¹² exhorting you, and comforting you, and testifying that you should walk worthy of God who inviteth you to his kingdom and glory.

¹ For this cause we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we, through negligence, let them slip.

² Let my doctrine be expected like rain, And my words distil as the dew; Like gentle rain on the tender herb, And like a heavy shower on the grass.

⁹ And now, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and knoweth every thought. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will at last forsake thee.

¹⁹ But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you; and go and serve strange gods and worship them,

⁴ nor say I am pure in works and irreprehensible before him.

³ My words shall proceed from a pure heart; and the sentiments of my lips shall be pure.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm for the sons of Kore. Hear these things, all ye nations; listen attentively, all ye inhabitants of the World! ² both ye of lowest rank, and heads of families; both rich and poor together. ³ My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart understanding.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and do not walk in my judgments; ³¹ If they profane my statutes; and do not keep my commandments: ³² I will visit their transgressions with a rod; and their iniquities with scourges.

⁶ Hearken to me, for I will speak solemn things; and with my lips disclose things which are right. ⁷ For my mouth shall speak truth; lying lips are indeed abominable in my sight. ⁸ All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; they have nothing crooked; nothing deceitful in them. ⁹ They are all plain to men of understanding: and right to them who find knowledge.

²⁰ Write thou them for thyself three times over; for counsel and knowledge, on the table of thy heart. ²¹ For this purpose I teach thee sound doctrine and knowledge good to be listened to: that thou mayst answer them who propound to thee words of truth.

¹⁶ Jesus addressing them, said, This doctrine of mine is not mine, but his, who sent me. ¹⁷ If any man is disposed to do his will, he will know in respect to this doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

⁶ By suggesting these things to the brethren thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of this belief, and this good doctrine, which thou hast followed.

⁹ adhering to the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able to exhort with sound doctrine, and convince them who oppose it.

²⁴ Then David comforted his wife Bersabe, and went in unto her; and she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him, ²⁵ and sent by the ministry of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jeddedi, For the sake of the Lord.

¹³ Go immediately to king David, and say to him, Didst thou not, my lord the king, swear to thy servant saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then doth Adonias reign? ¹⁴ And behold whilst thou art speaking with the king, I will come in after thee, and confirm thy words. ¹⁵ So Bersabe went to the king, into the inner chamber. Now the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was waiting on him. ¹⁶ And when Bersabe had bowed down, and made obeisance to the king, the king said to her, What is thy will? ¹⁷ And she said, My lord, Thou didst swear to thy servant, by the Lord thy God, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and sit on my throne.

⁵ Now these were the sons born to him in Jerusalem, Samaa, Sobab, Nathan and Solomon. [These four were by Bersabee the daughter of Amiel,]

⁵ And David said, My son Solomon is young and tender, and the house to be built for the Lord is for extraordinary grandeur, for renown and glory, through every land, I will make provision for it. So David provided materials in abundance before his death.

¹ Then king David said to all the congregation, My son Solomon whom the Lord hath chosen, is young and tender, and the work is great; for it is not for man but for the Lord God.

²³ [p] I know, Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, nor can a man who travelleth ensure to himself a prosperous journey.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

¹⁶ Set not your minds on high things, but accommodate yourselves to things which are low. Be not wise in your own conceits.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him.

³ you shall not do according to the customs of Egypt, in which you sojourned; nor shall you do according to the customs of the land of Chanaan, to which I am leading you; you shall not walk by their ordinances. ⁴ You shall execute my judgments, and keep my statutes, and walk by them; I the Lord am your God, ⁵ therefore you shall keep all my commandments, and all my judgments, and execute them, which if a man do he shall live thereby. I the Lord am your God;

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Forget not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens' children,

⁶ And these injunctions, which I this day give thee in charge, shall be in thy heart, and in thy soul;

¹¹ Now therefore, my son, the Lord will be with thee, and will prosper thee, and thou shalt build a house for the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken concerning thee. ¹² Let but the Lord grant thee wisdom and understanding, and strengthen thee over Israel, that thou mayst keep and perform the law of the Lord thy God; ¹³ then will he prosper thee, if thou be watchful to execute the statutes, and judgments, which the Lord enjoined on Israel by Moses. Quit thyself like a man, and be strong. Fear not nor be dismayed. ¹⁴ Now behold according to my poor ability I have provided for the house of the Lord a hundred talents of gold, and ten hundred talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight, because of their abundance. I have also provided timber and stones, but thou must add thereto. ¹⁵ And thou must add to the number of Workmen of whom there are with thee artists, and masons and carpenters and men skilled in every kind of work, ¹⁶ of gold and silver and brass and iron, an innumerable number. Up therefore; and fall to work. And the Lord be with thee.

¹¹ I have hid thine oracles in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

¹ My son, forget not my laws; but let thy heart keep my commandments.

² Keep my commandments, that thou mayst live; and my words as the apple of thine eye.

⁶ [Omitted]

³ Incline your ears and follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live on good things; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant; the gracious promises to David which are faithful.

⁵⁰ and I know that his commandment is everlasting life, therefore what I speak, I speak just as the father directed me.

⁴ And you, parents, exasperate not your children, but educate them with the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

⁵ recollecting that unfeigned belief in thee, which dwelt first in thy grand mother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in thee also:

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus.

⁹ and being consecrated became the author of everlasting salvation to all who obey him,]

² and did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right or to the left.

¹¹ And I will come out at his commands; for I have kept his ways, and will not turn aside from his commands,

¹⁸ Though our heart hath not turned back, yet thou hast turned our steps from thy way.

⁵¹ The haughty transgressed to a great degree, but from thy law I turned not aside.

¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet from thy testimonies I have not declined.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures. ²³ Behold I will pour forth to you the dictate of my spirit: and teach you this word of mine;

² thine ear will hearken to wisdom; and thou wilt apply thy heart to understanding, and transmit it for instruction to thy son. ³ For if thou wilt call upon wisdom: and utter thy voice for understanding; ⁴ if thou wilt seek for it as silver; and search for it as for treasures;

¹³ Happy the man, who hath found wisdom: and the mortal who hath seen prudence: ¹⁴ for it is better to traffick for her, than for treasures of gold and silver. ¹⁵ She is more precious than costly stones: and nothing evil can be compared to her. She is easily known by all who approach her; but no price is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of days and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left, riches and glory. Out of her mouth proceedeth righteousness: and on her tongue she carrieth law and mercy. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take hold of her; and safe for them who rely on her, as on the Lord.

⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention.

¹⁶ The productions of wisdom are better than gold: and the productions of prudence are better than silver.

¹⁶ Why should a fool have wealth? For the stupid cannot purchase wisdom. He who buildeth his house high seeketh destruction: and he who is backward to learn shall fall into evils.

¹ He who desireth to part with friends seeketh excuses; but he will always be liable to reproach.

⁸ He who procureth wisdom loveth himself; and he who keepeth it shall find good things.

²³ [Omitted]

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

¹⁰ For when wisdom entereth into thine understanding: and knowledge appeareth pleasant to thy soul: ¹¹ good counsel will keep thee, and holy prudence will guard thee: ¹² that she may deliver thee from an evil way and from a man who speaketh perversely.

²¹ That thy fountains may not fail thee, keep them in thy heart; ²² for they are life to them who find them and health to all flesh.

¹⁷ that, by means of this belief, the Christ may dwell in your hearts; that you being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved;

¹⁶ Fear not when a man groweth rich, nor when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ For when he dieth he can carry nothing away: nor will this glory of his descend with him. ¹⁸ Because during this life his soul shall be blessed; let him praise thee when thou doest him a benefit. ¹⁹ He shall go to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light. ²⁰ A man who is in honour and hath not understanding, hath been compared to the brute beasts, and is like them.

¹⁰⁴ From thy precepts I got understanding: Therefore I hated every wicked way.

⁶ He who getteth treasures by a lying tongue, pursueth vanity to the snares of death.

⁴ I enlarged my plan of operations. I built me houses. I planted me vineyards. ⁵ I made me gardens and orchards and planted therein all sorts of fruit trees. ⁶ I made me pools of water, to water from them my blooming nurseries. ⁷ I purchased men servants and maid servants; and had servants born in my family. And my stock of herds and flocks was great above all who were before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ I collected also for myself silver and gold and the choicest treasures of kings and countries. I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men; a butler and the requisites to entertainments. ⁹ And I was great and surpassed all who had been before me in Jerusalem; and still my wisdom continued with me.

⁸ Here is a single individual who hath no second; at least he hath neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labour. His eye is not satisfied with riches, yet doth he say, For whom do I labour and deprive my soul of good? Surely this is vanity and a sore vexation.

¹² Wisdom is like the shade of money; but the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is; it will give life to him who is a follower of it.

¹⁶ Now I have said, Wisdom is better than power, yet the wisdom of this poor man is despised and his words are not regarded. ¹⁷ The words of wise men in a time of rest are more minded than the shout of men exercising authority in the bustles of folly. Wisdom is better than implements of war. One sinner indeed will destroy much good.

⁴⁴ Again the kingdom of the heavens is like treasure hid in the field, which, when a man found, he concealed, and for joy thereof goeth away and selleth all that he hath, and purchaseth that field. ⁴⁵ Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant in quest of fine pearls, ⁴⁶ who, having met with one of great value, went and sold all that he had and purchased it.

³⁶ For what will it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? ³⁷ Or what will not a man give as a ransom for his life?

⁴² But there is one thing necessary. As for Mary, she hath chosen that good portion which shall not be taken from her.

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

⁸ nay more, I do therefore indeed count all things but refuse, on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have given up all and account them but dregs, that I may gain Christ

³⁰ For this cause, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, shall go out before me for ever; but now the Lord saith, Far be this from me; for I will honour them only who honour me. And he who despiseth me shall be despised.

⁵ the Lord appeared to him that night in a dream, and said to him, Ask for thyself any favour. ⁶ Thereupon Solomon said, Thou hast shewn great kindness to thy servant David my father. As he walked before thee in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, thou therefore hast kept for him this great kindness to set his son on his throne as at this day. ⁷ Now therefore, Lord my God, as thou hast appointed me thy servant in the room of my father David, and I am but a little child and know not how to go out and come in, ⁸ and thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, an immense people which cannot be numbered, ⁹ give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people righteously, and to discern between good and evil; for who can judge this thy people, ¹⁰ this great people which is so numerous? And it was well pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon made this request; ¹¹ therefore the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this of me, and hast not asked for thyself many days, nor riches, nor the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment, ¹² behold I have granted thy request; behold I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that before thee there hath not been one like thee, nor after thee shall there arise one like thee. ¹³ Moreover I have given thee what thou didst not ask, riches and glory; so that there hath not been among kings a man like thee.

³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the wicked have extolled dishonour.

⁴ The offspring of wisdom are the fear of the Lord and riches and glory and life.

³ And they who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous like the stars for the ages and longer.

⁹ for thou wilt receive a graceful crown for thy head; and a chain of gold for thy neck.

²² that thy soul may live and that grace may be around thy neck: and it will be health to thy flesh and a cure for thy bones;

³¹ Old age is a crown of glory, when found in the ways of righteousness.

⁵ In that day the Lord of Hosts will be the crown of hope; the diadem of glory to the remnant of the people.

⁹ in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with bashful modesty; not with curls, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ¹⁰ but with good works, as it becometh women who profess a reverence for God.

⁷ Thou madest him a little lower than angels; With glory and honour thou hast crowned him, ⁸ And set him over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet." For when he put all things under his feet, he left nothing which was not put in subjection to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him. ⁹ But we see him who was made a little lower than angels [namely] Jesus, on account of suffering death crowned with glory and honour, that so he by the favour of God might taste death for every man.

⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is highly precious in the sight of God.

⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

²¹ To him who overcometh I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I have overcome, and sit with my Father on his throne.

¹⁶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

² that you may fear the Lord your God. You shall keep all his statutes, and his commandments, which I this day command you, both thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, all the days of thy life, that you may live many days.

²² Receive, I pray thee, from his mouth, the terms of deliverance, and lay up his words in thy heart.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin and hide it with thee,

² For they will add to thee length of days and years of life and peace.

¹⁶ For length of days and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left, riches and glory. Out of her mouth proceedeth righteousness: and on her tongue she carrieth law and mercy.

¹⁰ Receive instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than fine gold.

²⁰ hear I beseech you, women! a word of God: and let your ears receive the words of his mouth: and teach your daughters a song of Woe; and every woman, her neighbour the mournful dirge.

³² and what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth, yet none receiveth his testimony. ³³ He who hath received his testimony, hath set his seal to this, That God is true.

¹³ On this account also we give thanks to God continually, because, when you received from us this message of God, you embraced it, not as a word of men, but, as it really is, a word of God, which operateth with powerful effect in you who believe.

¹⁵ This is a faithful word and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am a chief;

⁵ Behold, I have taught you rules of rectitude, and judgments, as the Lord commanded me; that you may act agreeably thereto, in the land to which you are going, to take possession of it.

²³ And as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. ²⁴ I will indeed serve the Lord, and point out the good and straight way: in addition to this, fear ye the Lord, and serve him with truth, and with your whole heart; for you have seen what great things he hath done with you.

³ and restored my soul. He hath led me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

⁴ Lord, shew me thy ways and teach me thy paths. ⁵ Lead me to thy truth, and teach me: for thou, God, art my saviour, and for thee I have waited all the day long.

⁴ and they said when they taught me, "Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our commandments; do not forget;

⁶ Hearken to me, for I will speak solemn things; and with my lips disclose things which are right.

⁹ They are all plain to men of understanding: and right to them who find knowledge.

²⁰ I walk in the ways of righteousness; and am conversant in the paths of judgment:

⁹ And moreover, because the preacher was wise, because he taught mankind wisdom; that the ear might find what is comely from parables,

¹⁰ said, O! full of all deceit and of all wickedness, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord!

³⁷ To enlarge my steps under me, So that my feet have not slipped.

⁷ Let the weakest plunder his substance, and his own counsel subvert him. ⁸ His foot is caught in a trap;

³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my tread was not unsteady.

¹¹ For he will give his angels a charge concerning thee; to keep thee in all thy ways; ¹² with their hands they shall bear thee up; shouldst thou chance to strike thy foot against a stone.

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they who love thy law: and for them there is no stumbling block.

²³ that thou mayst proceed on in all thy ways in peace and security; and that thy foot may not stumble.

¹⁹ But the ways of the wicked being dark; they know not at what they stumble.

²² When thou walkest, take this along and let it be with thee: and when thou sleepest, let it guard thee; that when thou awakest, it may talk with thee.

⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born.

⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walketh in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world: ¹⁰ but if any one walk in the night he stumbleth because there is no light in him.

³² Why?] Because they sought it not from belief; but as if attainable by works of law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone. ³³ As it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. "And "whosoever believeth in him shall not be shamed."

⁸ is indeed a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. They disbelieving the word stumble at the thing for which they were laid:

¹⁰ He who loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and in it there is no stumbling block. ¹¹ But he who hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me.

⁴⁷ for this is not a vain thing for you; for it is your life; and, for the sake of this word, you shall prolong your days in the land to which you are going, to cross the Jordan to take possession.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take hold of her; and safe for them who rely on her, as on the Lord.

⁴ It was but a little while after I parted from them, till I found him whom my soul loveth. I took hold of him and did not let him go till I brought him to my mother's house and into the chambers of her who conceived me.

²⁷ Then beginning with Moses and proceeding through all the prophets, he explained to them, by all those writings, the things concerning himself. ²⁸ And when they drew near to the village to which they were going, he seemed as intending to go farther. ²⁹ But they pressed him, saying, Stay with us; for it is towards evening. The day is far spent. So he went in to stay with them.

³⁹ Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, on the testimony of the woman who said, He told me all that I ever did. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when these Samaritans came, they intreated him to tarry with them. So he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed, because of what he himself spake, ⁴² and they said to the woman, It is not now on account of thy talk that we believe; for we ourselves have heard and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world, the Christ.

⁶⁸ Whereupon Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of an everlasting life,

⁴² and continued stedfast in the doctrine of the apostles and in the community, and in the breaking of the loaf, and in prayers,

²³ And when he came and saw the grace of God, he was filled with joy and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord with a firm determination of heart.

²¹ Prove all things and adhere to what is good.

¹³ "I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where the throne of satan is; yet thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied the belief of me, even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you where satan dwelleth.

¹¹ and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and have not spared to expose their life even to death.

¹ Happy the man, who hath not walked by the counsel of the wicked; nor stood in the way of sinners; nor sat in the seat of the scornful.

⁴ I did not sit with the council of vanity; nor can I go with them who transgress: ⁵ I hated the assembly of evil doers; and with the ungodly I cannot sit.

¹⁰ My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not when they advise thee,

¹⁵ Go not thou in the way with them; but turn thy foot from their paths.

⁶ Forsake folly, that you may reign forever: and seek prudence and build up understanding with knowledge."

²⁰ By walking with the wise thou wilt be wise; but he who walketh with fools will be known.

³³ Be not led astray; "good morals are debauched by talk profane."

⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes.

¹⁴ if there be any iniquity in thy hand, put it far from thee; and let not injustice lodge in thy dwelling.

²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling,

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house;

⁵ that thou mayst be saved like a roe from a toil, and like a bird from a snare.

¹⁵ He who is walking in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes; who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice:

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them:

²² Abstain from every appearance of evil.

⁴ He contrived mischief on his bed; he persisted in every course which was not good, and did not abhor wickedness.

¹⁶ [Omitted]

²⁰ But the wicked shall be tossed like waves and shall not be able to rest. "There is no peace, "said God, "to the wicked."

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God.

⁶⁶ And soon as it was day, the national senate, with the chief priests, and the Scribes, convened. And having caused him to be brought up before their Sanhedrim, they said,

²⁸ From Caiaphas they led Jesus away to the judgment hall of the Roman governor. Now it was early in the morning and they themselves did not go into the hall that they might not be polluted, but that they might eat the passover.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin; ensnaring unstable souls; having a heart practised in greediness; an execrable race;

⁵ and are gone away like asses in a field. They are sprung up above me in their own order. To one, bread is sweetened for his children; ⁶ others have reaped before dawn a field not their own; exhausted of strength have Worked the vineyards of the wicked without wages and without food.

⁴ Will they all continue senseless? They are going on in a course of iniquity: they are eating up my people as they do bread: they have not called on the Lord.

¹⁷ Taste sweetly bread in secret and water sweeter for being stolen.

¹⁷ [Omitted]

²⁶ [J] Since there have been found among my people wicked men, who have set snares to destroy men and have caught them. ²⁷ As a trap which hath been set is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit, therefore they became great and rich ²⁸ and overleaped judgment; they did not administer justice to the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow;

²⁵ Its princes in the midst of it were like roaring lions, ravening prey, devouring souls by oppression, yet receiving honours; and thy widows were multiplied in the midst of thee. ²⁶ Its priests also despised my law and profaned my holy things; between what was holy and what was profane they made no difference, nor did they distinguish between the unclean and the clean. And from my sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was profaned in the midst of them. ²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness. ²⁸ They shall fall together with its prophets who anointed them, seeing vanities, prophesying lies, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Though the Lord did not speak, ²⁹ crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and paying no regard to strangers to the administration of justice.

⁴ [p] Hear this, I beseech you, ye who every morning oppress the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the land, saying, ⁵ "When will the new moon be over that we may buy? And the sabbaths, that we may open store? to make the measure small, and the weight heavy, and to make the balance uneven, ⁶ that we may purchase the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, when from every kind of product we shall have made gain.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord against the prophets who led my people astray, who gnash with their teeth and proclaim peace for them, though it was not put in their mouths; they have raised up war against them.

¹² with which they have increased their wicked wealth? As they who inhabit it have spoken lies and their tongue hath been exalted in their mouth;

³ her chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the Wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning:

¹³ Now alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against men. For you neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them who are going in, to enter.

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting.

⁴ [p] With the light of the God of the morning. [d] David. [p] Prophet. [d] Let the Sun rise in the morning betimes. [p] Is not the Lord gone forth with splendour? [d] Yes, like the spring of grass on the earth after rain;

¹⁷ and life will arise for thee from noon day:

¹⁰ For he already knoweth my way and hath tried me like gold.

⁷ They shall go on from strength to strength: the God of Gods will be seen in Sion.

⁷ The way of the pious was straight; the way of the pious was well prepared;

³ Let us acknowledge; let us continue our pursuit to know the Lord; sure as the morning we shall find him. He will come like rain for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth."

⁶ it shall come to pass that on that day there shall not be light; ⁷ there shall be chilness and cold during one day. That will indeed be a memorable day to the Lord. It will neither be day nor night; but towards evening there will be light.

¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city situate on a mountain cannot be hid.

¹⁶ Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven.

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

¹² Then Jesus spake to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who floweth me will not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

¹⁵ that you may be blameless and sincere, spotless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom shine ye forth as lights in the world,

¹⁹ Therefore we have a more complete confirmation of the prophetic word, to which you do well in giving attention, as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawn, and the bringer of light rise in your hearts;

¹⁸ but increase in the favour and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to enlighten it; for the glory of God enlightened it; and the lamb is its lamp:

⁵ And there shall be no night there; nor have they any need of a lamp or of the light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign for the ages of the ages.

⁹ He granteth the petitioner his prayer, And hath blessed the years of the righteous; Because a man is not mighty in strength,

¹⁴ In the day time, darkness shall meet them, that they may grope at noon day as at night,

²⁵ That they might grope in darkness without light; and that they might stagger like a drunken man.

⁵ The light of the wicked shall indeed be extinguished; and from them a spark shall not ascend. ⁶ The light in his dwelling shall be darkness, and the lamp for him shall be extinguished.

¹⁸ When his name shall be published abroad, may they drive him from light to darkness.

¹³ Alas for them who leave straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness;

⁹ Therefore judgment is far from them, and saving mercy shall not overtake them. When they were waiting for light, darkness came upon them, expecting a blaze of light they walked in obscurity. ¹⁰ They shall grope like blind men for a wall and feel about like men who have no eyes, and fall at midday as at midnight.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before the darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness.

¹² let their way therefore be slippery and dark, that they may stumble and fall therein. For I will bring evils upon them in the year of their visitation.

²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity.

¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind leaders of blind. Now if the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into a ditch.

¹⁰ but if any one walk in the night he stumbleth because there is no light in him.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light that the darkness may not overtake you; for he who walketh in darkness knoweth not where he is going.

¹¹ But he who hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹ On understanding. By Asaph. Attend, my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

¹² so to number them. Thus make known thy right hand; and them whose hearts are instructed in wisdom.

²⁰ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the maxims of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them continually on thy mind: and tie them as a chain around thy neck.

¹ My son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee. My son, honor the Lord and thou shall be strong; but besides him, fear no other.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁸ to perform, my God, thy will, I was determined, even that law of thine, within my heart.

³ Let not acts of kindness and faithfulness forsake thee: but bind them about thy neck

²¹ My son, be not wanting in retention: but keep my counsel, namely, the sentiment:

¹ My son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee. My son, honor the Lord and thou shall be strong; but besides him, fear no other. ² Keep my commandments, that thou mayst live; and my words as the apple of thine eye.

⁸ then shall thy body have health and thy bones a cure.

¹⁰ Hear my son and receive my words; that, when the years of thy life shall be multiplied, thou mayst have many ways of livelihood:

¹⁸ They who wound with their speeches are swords: but the tongues of the wise are healing.

⁶ behold I am raising up for it a cure for wounds and a restorative, which I will shew them, and I will heal it and give it peace

²³ Try me, O God, and know my heart: examine me and know my ways; ²⁴ and see if there be in me any trace of iniquity; and lead me in an everlasting way.

⁷ [Omitted]

¹⁶ A virtuous woman raiseth honour for her husband: but a woman who hateth righteousness is a throne of disgrace. The slothful though rich, become indigent: but the diligent are supported with wealth.

³ He who guardeth his mouth preserveth his life; but he who is rash with his mouth, shall bring on himself terror.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in crooked paths: but he who watcheth his soul shall avoid them.

¹⁹ Hear, my son and be wise and direct the thoughts of thy heart aright.

²⁶ He who putteth confidence in the boldness of his heart is a fool: but he who walketh wisely shall be saved.

¹³ There is a weakness which I have seen under the sun: riches kept by one for his descendant to his own hurt.

⁹ [p] The heart is deep beyond all things; so also is a man, who then can know Him?

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produceth good things; and the bad man, out of his bad treasure produceth bad things.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come malicious surmises, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed those evil surmises, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, inordinate desires, malice, fraud, sensuality, envy, detraction, pride, foolishness. ²³ All these are the evil things which come from within, and defile the man.

³⁸ Watch and pray, that you may not come to a trial. The spirit is indeed willing; but the flesh is weak.

⁴⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is bad. For from the overflowing of the heart the mouth speaketh.

¹⁵ watching diligently that none fall short of the favour of God"that no root of bitterness spring up and occasion trouble, and many be defiled by it

¹⁴ But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. ¹⁵ In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death.

¹² A man void of understanding, and a transgressor, walketh in ways which are not good.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; they have nothing crooked; nothing deceitful in them.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth injustice and insolence and haughtiness and the ways of the wicked: and I have hated the crooked ways of bad men.

²⁰ but he who is stubborn doth not meet with good. A man of a changeable tongue will fall into evils: but the heart of a fool is sorrow to him who hath it.

³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel,

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away all falsehood, speak truth, every one to his neighbour. Because we are members one of another, ²⁶ are you excited to anger? Do not therefore sin. Let not the sun go down on your wrath, ²⁷ nor give the devil an opportunity. ²⁸ Let the stealer steal no more; but rather labour, and procure honestly with the work of his hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy. ²⁹ Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth; nothing but what is good for edification, of such utility as to be a benefit to the hearers. ³⁰ And grieve not the holy spirit of God by which you have been sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and detraction, be banished from among you, with malice of every sort;

⁸ But now lay ye aside also all these things, anger, wrath, malice, detraction, obscene discourse out of your mouth.

⁵ preposterous studies of men whose minds are corrupt and devoid of truth, who suppose this religion to be a matter of gain. From such withdraw thyself.

²¹ Therefore having thrown off all the filth and scum of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls;

²⁶ If any one among you thinketh to be religious without bridling his tongue, he is but deceiving his heart. Such a one's religion is vain.

¹ Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and every kind of hypocrisy, envy and slander,

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not gaze on a virgin:

³⁷ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; keep me alive in thy way.

⁵ If thou fix thy view toward him, he is out of sight: for he is provided with wings as of an eagle; and directeth his course to the house of one who is before him.

³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely.

²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If therefore thine eye be sound thy whole body will be enlightened:

²³ The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, when he taketh delight in his way.

² and brought me up from a horrible pit and from miry clay; and set my feet on a rock and directed my steps,

⁵ O that my ways may be directed, that I may keep thy rules of rectitude.

⁵⁹ I revolved thy ways in my mind, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

⁶ for she walketh not in the ways of life. Her paths are slippery and not easily known.

²¹ For the ways of a husband are before the eyes of God, and he examineth narrowly all his paths.

²⁸ He hath turned away from all his wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

⁵ Now therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, "Turn your thoughts on your ways.

⁷ Thus saith the Lord Almighty apply your thoughts to these ways of yours:

¹⁵ Take heed therefore how circumspectly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹⁷ therefore be not without understanding, but intelligent with regard to what is the will of the Lord.

¹³ so as to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, in the presence of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

³ But the Lord is faithful, and will establish you, and guard you from the wicked one:

¹³ and make straight tracks with your feet, that that which is lame may not be sprained, but rather healed.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all favour, who hath invited us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when we have suffered a little may he himself fit, support, strengthen and establish you!

³² Be careful therefore to do as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Turn not aside to the right, nor to the left,

³² Be careful to do every thing which I this day command you. Thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.

¹⁴ thou wilt not turn aside from all the commandments which I this day command thee, either to the right, or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them.

⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do:

¹⁷ The paths of life turn aside from evils: and the ways of righteousness are length of life. He who receiveth instruction shall enjoy good: and he who regardeth reproofs shall be wise. He who watcheth his own ways preserveth his soul: and he who loveth his life will be sparing of his mouth.

¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds;

⁹ Let love be unfeigned: abhor what is evil; adhere closely to what is good;