Genesis 39:8

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”

When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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;

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

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.”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”

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.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Abstain from every form of evil.