Proverbs 21:17

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

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.”

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

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

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

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

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

“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.

But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

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

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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

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,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

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;

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.’