Mark 7:22

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

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

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,

Saul watched David from that day and forward.

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

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.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”