Proverbs 28:26

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

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

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.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

I teach you today, even you, So that your trust may be in Yahweh.

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.

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

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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.

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

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

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.