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Proverbs 3

Proverbs 3

Further Benefits of Wisdom   

 ¹ My son, do not forget my teaching,
       but keep my commands in your heart,

 ² for they will prolong your life many years
       and bring you prosperity.

³ Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
       bind them around your neck,
       write them on the tablet of your heart.

 ⁴ Then you will win favor and a good name 
    in the sight of God and man.

 ⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
       and lean not on your own understanding;

 ⁶ in all your ways acknowledge him,
       and he will make your paths straight.

 ⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes;
       fear the LORD and shun evil.

 ⁸ This will bring health to your body
       and nourishment to your bones.

 ⁹ Honor the LORD with your wealth,
       with the firstfruits of all your crops;

 ¹⁰ then your barns will be filled to overflowing, 

       and your vats will brim over with new wine.

 ¹¹ My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline
       and do not resent his rebuke,

 ¹² because the LORD disciplines those he loves,
       as a father  the son he delights in.

 ¹³ Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,
       the man who gains understanding,

 ¹⁴ for she is more profitable than silver
       and yields better returns than gold.

 ¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies;
       nothing you desire can compare with her.

 ¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand;
       in her left hand are riches and honor.

 ¹⁷ Her ways are pleasant ways,
       and all her paths are peace.

 ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who embrace her;
       those who lay hold of her will be blessed.

 ¹⁹ By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations,
       by understanding he set the heavens in place;

 ²⁰ by his knowledge the deeps were divided,
       and the clouds let drop the dew.

 ²¹ My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment,
       do not let them out of your sight;

 ²² they will be life for you,
       an ornament to grace your neck.

 ²³ Then you will go on your way in safety,
       and your foot will not stumble;

 ²⁴ when you lie down, you will not be afraid;
       when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

 ²⁵ Have no fear of sudden disaster
       or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

 ²⁶ for the LORD will be your confidence
       and will keep your foot from being snared.

 ²⁷ Do not withhold good from those who deserve it,
       when it is in your power to act.

 ²⁸ Do not say to your neighbor,
       "Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow"—
       when you now have it with you.

 ²⁹ Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
       who lives trustfully near you.

 ³⁰ Do not accuse a man for no reason—
       when he has done you no harm.

 ³¹ Do not envy a violent man
       or choose any of his ways,

 ³² for the LORD detests a perverse man
       but takes the upright into his confidence.

 ³³ The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked,
       but he blesses the home of the righteous.

 ³⁴ He mocks proud mockers
       but gives grace to the humble.

 ³⁵ The wise inherit honor,
       but fools he holds up to shame.

From:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+3&version=NIV

Proverbs 2

Proverbs 2

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

 ¹ My son, if you accept my words
       and store up my commands within you,

 ² turning your ear to wisdom
       and applying your heart to understanding,

 ³ and if you call out for insight
       and cry aloud for understanding,

 ⁴ and if you look for it as for silver
       and search for it as for hidden treasure,

 ⁵ then you will understand the fear of the LORD
       and find the knowledge of God.

 ⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom,
       and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

 ⁷ He holds victory in store for the upright,
       he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

 ⁸ for he guards the course of the just
       and protects the way of his faithful ones.

 ⁹ Then you will understand what is right and just
       and fair—every good path.

 ¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,
       and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

 ¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
       and understanding will guard you.

 ¹² Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
       from men whose words are perverse,

 ¹³ who leave the straight paths
       to walk in dark ways,

 ¹⁴ who delight in doing wrong
       and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

 ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked
       and who are devious in their ways.

 ¹⁶ It will save you also from the adulteress,
       from the wayward wife with her seductive words,

 ¹⁷ who has left the partner of her youth
       and ignored the covenant she made before God. ^[a]

 ¹⁸ For her house leads down to death
       and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

 ¹⁹ None who go to her return
       or attain the paths of life.

 ²⁰ Thus you will walk in the ways of good men
       and keep to the paths of the righteous.

 ²¹ For the upright will live in the land,
       and the blameless will remain in it;

 ²² but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
       and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

From:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+2&version=NIV

Proverbs 1

Proverbs 1

Prologue: Purpose and Theme

 ¹ The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

 ² for attaining wisdom and discipline;
       for understanding words of insight;

 ³ for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
       doing what is right and just and fair;

 ⁴ for giving prudence to the simple,
       knowledge and discretion to the young-

 ⁵ let the wise listen and add to their learning,
       and let the discerning get guidance-

 ⁶ for understanding proverbs and parables,
       the sayings and riddles of the wise.

 ⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
       but fools  despise wisdom and discipline.

Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against Enticement

 ⁸ Listen, my son, to your father's instruction
       and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

 ⁹ They will be a garland to grace your head
       and a chain to adorn your neck.

 ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you,
       do not give in to them.

 ¹¹ If they say, "Come along with us;
       let's lie in wait for someone's blood,
       let's waylay some harmless soul;

 ¹² let's swallow them alive, like the grave, 

       and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

 ¹³ we will get all sorts of valuable things
       and fill our houses with plunder;

 ¹⁴ throw in your lot with us,
       and we will share a common purse"-

 ¹⁵ my son, do not go along with them,
       do not set foot on their paths;

 ¹⁶ for their feet rush into sin,
       they are swift to shed blood.

 ¹⁷ How useless to spread a net
       in full view of all the birds!

 ¹⁸ These men lie in wait for their own blood;
       they waylay only themselves!

 ¹⁹ Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
       it takes away the lives of those who get it.

Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom

 ²⁰ Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
       she raises her voice in the public squares;

 ²¹ at the head of the noisy streets  she cries out,
       in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:

 ²² "How long will you simple ones  love your simple ways?
       How long will mockers delight in mockery
       and fools hate knowledge?

 ²³ If you had responded to my rebuke,
       I would have poured out my heart to you
       and made my thoughts known to you.

 ²⁴ But since you rejected me when I called
       and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,

 ²⁵ since you ignored all my advice
       and would not accept my rebuke,

 ²⁶ I in turn will laugh at your disaster;
       I will mock when calamity overtakes you-

 ²⁷ when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
       when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
       when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

 ²⁸ "Then they will call to me but I will not answer;
       they will look for me but will not find me.

 ²⁹ Since they hated knowledge
       and did not choose to fear the LORD,

 ³⁰ since they would not accept my advice
       and spurned my rebuke,

 ³¹ they will eat the fruit of their ways
       and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

 ³² For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
       and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

 ³³ but whoever listens to me will live in safety
       and be at ease, without fear of harm." 

From:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverb&version=NIV

Matthew 12

Matthew 12

Lord of the Sabbath

⁹Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,

¹⁰and a man with a shriveled hand was there.

Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him,

"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

 ¹¹He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit

on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?

 ¹²How much more valuable is a man than a sheep!

Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

 ¹³Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

So he stretched it out and it was completely restored,

just as sound as the other.

¹⁴But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

God's Chosen Servant

 ¹⁵Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place.

    Many followed him, and he healed all their sick,

¹⁶warning them not to tell who he was.

¹⁷This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
¹⁸" Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
      the one I love, in whom I delight;
      I will put my Spirit on him,
      and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
 ¹⁹He will not quarrel or cry out;
      no one will hear his voice in the streets.
 ²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break,
      and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
      till he leads justice to victory. 
²¹In his name the nations will put their hope."

 

Resource:

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Isaiah 42 _ 1-9

Isaiah 42

The Servant of the Lord

 ¹ "Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
       my chosen one in whom I delight;
       I will put my Spirit on him
       and he will bring justice to the nations.

 ² He will not shout or cry out,
       or raise his voice in the streets.

 ³ A bruised reed he will not break,
       and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.
       In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;

 ⁴ he will not falter or be discouraged
       till he establishes justice on earth.
       In his law the islands will put their hope."

 ⁵ This is what God the LORD says—
       he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
       who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it,
       who gives breath to its people,
       and life to those who walk on it:

 ⁶ "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness;
       I will take hold of your hand.
       I will keep you and will make you
       to be a covenant for the people
       and a light for the Gentiles,

 ⁷ to open eyes that are blind,
       to free captives from prison
       and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

 ⁸ "I am the LORD; that is my name!
       I will not give my glory to another
       or my praise to idols.

 ⁹ See, the former things have taken place,
       and new things I declare;
       before they spring into being
       I announce them to you."

 

Resource:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah42&version=NIV