Proverbs 12:2

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

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

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

“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.”

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

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.

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

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

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

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

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.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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

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

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

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

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

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

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

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

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.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.