Proverbs 16:6
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
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Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
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.
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
Let brotherly love continue.
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
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.
See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Abstain from every form of evil.
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
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?
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.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
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,
But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.