Proverbs 1:29

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

“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.”

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.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

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.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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.”

Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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;

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,