Proverbs 10:17

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

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;

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

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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.”

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.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

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

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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.”

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

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 who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

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.

I will punish him, his offspring, and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.” ’ ”

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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.

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.

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

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

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

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

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

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

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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

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

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”