Judges 17:6

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they didn’t find them. Then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they weren’t there. Then he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn’t find them.

These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach me?” says Yahweh.

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;