Proverbs 20:7

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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.

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

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

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

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

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

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

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

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

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

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

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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;

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

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

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

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

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

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

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’