Ecclesiastes 7:16

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

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.”

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

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

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’

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

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;

Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

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

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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.

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.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.