Proverbs 17:16

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

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

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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,

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

“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!

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

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

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,