Joshua 23:11

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

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 even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,