Proverbs 7:4

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.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

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

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

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

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

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

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

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

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.