Proverbs 4:11

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

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

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

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.

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

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

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

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

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

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.