Proverbs 1:32

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know 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.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

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

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

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,

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

“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.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

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

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

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.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

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

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

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

“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.”

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

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

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“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.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

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

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.