Proverbs 12:11

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

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

“You shall not steal.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.