Proverbs 20:28

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

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

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

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

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

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

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.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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,

His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

“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.