Proverbs 6:23

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

and I will give him the morning star.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

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

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

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

“You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.