2 Samuel 13:9

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.” Jehu said, “To which of us all?” He said, “To you, O captain.”

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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