Proverbs 29:27

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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;

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

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.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

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

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

He who hates me, hates my Father also.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.