Proverbs 29:6

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.

I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.