Proverbs 19:20

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

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!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

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

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

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

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

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.

“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.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

“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.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

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

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

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

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

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

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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

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

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

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

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

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

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?” says Yahweh.

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.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.