Proverbs 21:16

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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

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

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

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

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;