Proverbs 8:36

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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,

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

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.”

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

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

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

“ ‘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.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

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.

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

“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.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

“You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

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;

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

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

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Do they provoke me to anger?” says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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

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

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?

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

“Yet you have not listened to me,” says Yahweh; “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.”

“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

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?

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

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

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.