Proverbs 11:12

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

So then death works in us, but life in you.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

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

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

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.”