Proverbs 24:1

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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;

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

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

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

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

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

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.

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

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,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

“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.”

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

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

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

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

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,