Proverbs 16:25

“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.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

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.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

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

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

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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

You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

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

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.