Proverbs 8:12

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.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

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

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

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

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze.

When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

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

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;

“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”

When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.