Proverbs 30:32

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

that no flesh should boast before God.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

“If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest,

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

I will be yet more vile than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”

This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become despised.”

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!