Romans 1:28

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

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.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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

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

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

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

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

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

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.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

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.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

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

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

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

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

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

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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;

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

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.

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

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.

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

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

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

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

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”

“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.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

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

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,