Proverbs 10:2

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

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.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

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

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces.”

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

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

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.