Proverbs 23:23

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

“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?’

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

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

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

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

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

“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.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

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

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

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

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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

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

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

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?

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

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

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”