Proverbs 11:20

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

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

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

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

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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 his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

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

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

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

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

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.