Proverbs 8:13

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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 am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

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.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Abstain from every form of evil.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.

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.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.