Proverbs 16:29

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

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

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

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

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

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

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

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.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

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;

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

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

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;

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

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

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

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.”

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

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

“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!

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

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

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.