1 Peter 3:10

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

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.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.