Proverbs 15:26

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

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.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

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

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

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

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

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.

O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!

because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

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

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

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.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

“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!

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

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

The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

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.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?