Proverbs 20:11

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

“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.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

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

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

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.

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

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.