Proverbs 20:17

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

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;”

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’