2 Peter 1:5

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

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

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

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.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

“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.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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

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

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

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

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.” ’ ”

But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

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

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,

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,