Proverbs 1:31

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

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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,

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

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

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: The Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree. The burning flame will not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

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.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”

O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!

because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.

Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

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

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

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.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.