2 Chronicles 24:17

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

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

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food,

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, yet not like David his father. He did according to all that Joash his father had done.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

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.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.

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

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

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

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.