Proverbs 26:16

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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.

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

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Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”

He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

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

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;