Proverbs 3:22

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

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.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Your bars will be iron and bronze. As your days, so your strength will be.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

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.”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.