2 Peter 2:16

When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

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

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

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

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.

The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”

Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

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.

“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:

to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn’t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.