Proverbs 24:32

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

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.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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,

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.