Proverbs 15:31

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:

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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.

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;

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

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

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

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

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

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

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

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

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

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.

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

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

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 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.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“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.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

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

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,

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

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.

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

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

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

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

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

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

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

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?” ’

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

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.

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

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?”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

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

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

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.