1 Kings 3:20

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.