Psalms 36:4

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

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

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

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.

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

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

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

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

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 turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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.”

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

“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.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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

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

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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.

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

On the next day, he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth.

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

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

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.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.