Job 28:15

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

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.

the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

We love him, because he first loved us.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

“ ‘ “Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.