Proverbs 5:22

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

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

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

“You shall not commit adultery.

“ ‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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.

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

“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.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.