Ephesians 5:15

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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

Let brotherly love continue.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.

When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

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.”

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.