Proverbs 6:14

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

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.

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;

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

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

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

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,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

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

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

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

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

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

“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,

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t be quiet.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.