Psalms 95:10

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

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.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’

They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

“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.”

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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.

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’ ” says Yahweh.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.

In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them,

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

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

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.