Proverbs 22:20

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

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

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,