Ecclesiastes 11:3

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

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

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

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

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

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

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.