Proverbs 26:3

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

“For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

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

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

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.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

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.

He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

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

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

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

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

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.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.