Proverbs 26:19

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

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

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, “But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joab said, “Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?”

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

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

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.