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He said, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.

The near kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can't redeem it."

Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.

He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."

I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"

Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"

Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."

One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"

Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate,

But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."

When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.

Paul said, "I didn't know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'"

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"

But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.