Proverbs 4:8

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

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

His left hand would be under my head. His right hand would embrace me.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

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

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

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.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

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

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

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

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

She said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the journey that you take won’t be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into a woman’s hand.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?