1 Samuel 25:39

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

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

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.