Proverbs 6:32

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

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,

“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.”

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.

“You shall not commit adultery.

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,

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

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.

“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

“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.

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

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

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.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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.

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

“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

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.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

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

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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.

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

“You shall not commit adultery.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

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.

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

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

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: