2 Chronicles 20:32

Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh his God’s eyes;

I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

“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.”

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

When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.