Psalms 36:2

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

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.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

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

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.