Proverbs 4:12

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;

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

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

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

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

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.