Ecclesiastes 7:22

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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,

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

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

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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,

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

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 king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”

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.”

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.