Proverbs 12:1

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

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

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

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

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

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

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

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

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

We love him, because he first loved us.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

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

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”