Romans 16:19

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

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

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

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.

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.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

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.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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;

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

“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.”

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.