Proverbs 24:7

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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 being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

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.