Old Testament
Prov 20:1~21:31
Prov 20
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; / And whoever errs by it does not become wise.
2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion; / He who provokes him to anger sins against his own life.
3 It is an honor for a man to keep away from strife, / But every fool rushes headlong into it.
4 The sluggard will not plow because of winter; / Therefore he will beg in harvest and have nothing.
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, / But a man of understanding will draw it out.
6 Many a man will proclaim his own kindness, / But who can find a faithful man?
7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity, / Blessed are his children after him.
8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment / Scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean; / I am pure from my sin?
10 Differing weights and differing measures, / Both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
11 Even a child makes himself known by his deeds, / Whether his work is pure and whether it is upright.
12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye — / Jehovah has made both of them.
13 Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; / Open your eyes, and be satisfied with bread.
14 It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer; / But when he has gone away, then he boasts in his purchase.
15 There is gold and an abundance of corals, / But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
16 Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger, / And hold the pledge when he becomes surety for foreigners.
17 The bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, / But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
18 Every plan is established by counsel, / And by sound counsel make war.
19 He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets; / Therefore do not associate with one who opens his lips wide.
20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, / His lamp will go out in deep darkness.
21 An inheritance gained hurriedly at the beginning / Will not be blessed in the end.
22 Do not say, I will recompense evil; / Wait for Jehovah, and He will save you.
23 Differing weights are an abomination to Jehovah, / And false scales are not good.
24 A man’s steps are ordered by Jehovah; / How then can man understand his own way?
25 It is a snare to a man to rashly say, It is holy, / And after making the vows to begin to consider.
26 A wise king winnows the wicked / And drives the threshing wheel over them.
27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, / Searching all the innermost parts of the inner being.
28 Lovingkindness and truth preserve the king, / And his throne is upheld by kindness.
29 The glory of young men is their strength, / And the honor of old men is gray hair.
30 Stripes that wound purge away evil, / And strokes reach the innermost parts of the inner being.
Prov 21
1 The king’s heart is like streams of water in the hand of Jehovah; / He turns it wherever He wishes.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, / But Jehovah weighs the hearts.
3 To do righteousness and justice / Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
4 A high look and a proud heart — / The lamp of the wicked — is sin.
5 The plans of the diligent lead only to plentifulness, / But everyone who is hasty comes only to want.
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue / Is a fleeting vapor, a snare of death.
7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away / Because they refuse to do justice.
8 The way of a guilty man is crooked; / But as for the pure, his work is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop / Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
10 The soul of the wicked man desires evil; / His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple man becomes wise; / And when the wise man is instructed, he receives knowledge.
12 The righteous One considers the house of the wicked man, / Overthrowing the wicked to their ruin.
13 Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor man / Also will cry and will not be heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger; / And a present in the bosom, strong wrath.
15 It is joy to the righteous man to do justice, / But it is destruction to the workers of iniquity.
16 The man who wanders from the way of understanding / Will rest in the assembly of the dead.
17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; / He who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
18 The wicked man is a ransom for the righteous man, / And the treacherous man is in the place of the upright.
19 It is better to dwell in a desert land / Than with a contentious and vexing woman.
20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise man, / But a foolish man swallows it up.
21 He who pursues righteousness and kindness / Finds life, righteousness, and honor.
22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty / And brings down the strength in which they trust.
23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue / Keeps his soul from troubles.
24 Proud, Haughty, Scorner are the names / Of him who works in the arrogance of pride.
25 The desire of the sluggard puts him to death, / For his hands refuse to work.
26 All day long one covets greedily, / But the righteous man gives and does not hold back.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; / How much more when he brings it with evil intent!
28 A false witness will perish, / But the man who hears will speak so as to endure.
29 A wicked man hardens his face; / But as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding / Nor counsel that can avail against Jehovah.
31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, / But victory belongs to Jehovah.
New Testament
2 Cor 6:14~7:16
2 6
14 Do not become dissimilarly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 And what concord does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, even as God said, “ I will dwell among them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
17 Therefore “ come out from their midst and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you”;
18 “And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 7
1 Therefore since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and of spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Make room for us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.
3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts for our dying together and our living together.
4 Great is my boldness toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in everything; without were fightings, within were fears.
6 But He who comforts those who are downcast, that is, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7 And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted because of you, declaring to us your longing, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.
8 For though I caused you sorrow by the letter, I do not regret it. Even if I did regret it (for I see that that letter, even if for an hour, caused you sorrow),
9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to God, that in nothing you might suffer loss from us.
10 For sorrow according to God works repentance unto salvation, which is without regret; but the sorrow of the world works out death.
11 For behold this very thing, your being made sorrowful according to God, what earnestness it has worked out in you, indeed what defense, indeed what indignation, indeed what fear, indeed what longing, indeed what zeal, indeed what punishment! In everything you have commended yourselves to be pure in the matter.
12 So then, though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who was wronged, but for the sake of manifesting to you before God your earnestness for us.
13 Because of this we have been comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.
14 For if in anything I boasted to him on your behalf, I have not been put to shame; on the contrary, as we spoke all things in truth to you, so also our boasting before Titus turned out to be the truth.
15 And his affections are abundantly toward you, he remembering the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.
16 I rejoice that in everything I have boldness because of you.