Proverbs 1:17

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“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.”

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?

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.

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.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

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

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.