1 Samuel 18:5

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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.

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

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.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’ ”

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

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

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.

There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.