Proverbs 6:22
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 6:22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
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Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
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.
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
I will walk in liberty, 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.
The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
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.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
“ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
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.
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,