Deuteronomy 28:56

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Saul watched David from that day and forward.

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

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.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

Arise! Go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,” says Yahweh; “that has neither gates nor bars, that dwells alone.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”