Proverbs 23:33

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

“ ‘ “That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

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

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;