Proverbs 7:24

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?