Job 6:13

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

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

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.