Ecclesiastes 10:13

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

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.

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.

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.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

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.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

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

Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.

The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

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

Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Abstain from every form of evil.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,