Proverbs 24:27

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,

Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.

He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.

He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”

They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

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

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.