Proverbs 1:3

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

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

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

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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.

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: