Proverbs 16:7
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 16:7When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
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.
God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
“Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and Potiphar made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”
He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,