Proverbs 11:18

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

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

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Always rejoice.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

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.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

David called one of the young men, and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,