Proverbs 3:21
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 3:21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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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.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
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!
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
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.
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
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.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
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.
Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
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.
when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
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.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
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—
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
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.
“ ‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.