Proverbs 3:4

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

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;

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

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

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

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

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

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

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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.

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

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

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

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.”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

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.

until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.