Proverbs 2:1

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—

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.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

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

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

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

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

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

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

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

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

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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

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

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

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

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

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

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

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

Give us today our daily bread.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

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.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

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

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

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

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

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

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

“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.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

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.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

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

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

“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.

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.