Proverbs 26:6

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”

All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.