Ecclesiastes 8:12

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

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

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

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

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

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

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

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

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

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,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”