Proverbs 23:18

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.