Proverbs 5:23

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;

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

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

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

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

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.