Proverbs 8:6

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

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

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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;

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.

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.

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

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while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

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

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

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

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

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These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

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

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

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.

He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul.

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,