Proverbs 10:20

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

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

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.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

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

The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

All its fat he shall take away, like the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

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.

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

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

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

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

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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