Proverbs 2:15

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

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

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

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.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.