1 Samuel 18:9

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.

Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

For the day is near, even Yahweh’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

and don’t give place to the devil.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.