Ecclesiastes 11:7

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

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

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

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.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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!

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.