Proverbs 21:6

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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

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

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,

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

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 their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

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

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

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

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Give us today our daily bread.

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 neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

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.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

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

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.