Job 6:27

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.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

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.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

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

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

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.

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.