Exodus 1:10

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

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

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

“Now you intend to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David. You are a great multitude, and the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods are with you.

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

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,

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

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

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

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

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”