Proverbs 22:17

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

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

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

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

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

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”