Proverbs 2:7

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

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—

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

“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.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

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.”

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.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

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

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

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

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

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

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

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