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• Genesis 32:3

  Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

• Genesis 32:4

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

• Genesis 32:5

  I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”

• Genesis 32:6

  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

• Genesis 32:7

  Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

• Genesis 32:8

  and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

• Genesis 32:9

  Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’

• Genesis 32:10

  I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

• Genesis 32:11

  Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

• Genesis 32:12

  You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”

• Genesis 32:13

  He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:

• Genesis 32:14

  two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 32:16

  He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

• Genesis 32:17

  He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’

• Genesis 32:18

  Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”

• Genesis 32:19

  He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

• Genesis 32:20

  You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

• Genesis 32:21

  So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

• Genesis 34:5

  Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Genesis 41:33

  “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:36

  The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”

• Genesis 41:37

  The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

• Genesis 41:38

  Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

• Genesis 41:39

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

• Genesis 41:40

  You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

• Genesis 41:43

  and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:46

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:47

  In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

• Genesis 41:49

  Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

• Genesis 41:50

  To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Genesis 41:53

  The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

• Genesis 41:54

  The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:57

  All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

• Exodus 18:17

  Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

• Exodus 18:18

  You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

• Exodus 18:19

  Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

• Exodus 18:20

  You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 18:22

  Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

• Exodus 18:23

  If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

• Joshua 22:10

  When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

• Joshua 22:11

  The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”

• Joshua 22:12

  When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

• Joshua 22:13

  The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.

• Joshua 22:14

  With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

• Joshua 22:15

  They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

• Joshua 22:16

  “Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

• Joshua 22:17

  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

• Joshua 22:18

  that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

• Joshua 22:19

  However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.

• Joshua 22:20

  Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

• Joshua 22:21

  Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

• Joshua 22:22

  “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

• Joshua 22:23

  that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

• Joshua 22:24

  “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

• Joshua 22:25

  For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

• Joshua 22:26

  “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

• Joshua 22:27

  but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’

• Joshua 22:28

  “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’

• Joshua 22:29

  “Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

• Joshua 22:30

  When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

• Joshua 22:31

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”

• Joshua 22:32

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

• Joshua 22:33

  The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

• Joshua 22:34

  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

• 1 Samuel 11:13

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 18:5

  David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

• 1 Samuel 18:7

  The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

• 1 Samuel 18:9

  Saul watched David from that day and forward.

• 1 Samuel 18:10

  On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;

• 1 Samuel 18:11

  and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David even to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

• 1 Samuel 18:12

  Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

• 1 Samuel 18:13

  Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

• 1 Samuel 18:14

  David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

• 1 Samuel 18:15

  When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

• 1 Samuel 18:16

  But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

• 1 Samuel 18:17

  Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

• 1 Samuel 18:18

  David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”

• 1 Samuel 18:24

  The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:26

  When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:28

  Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

• 1 Samuel 18:29

  Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

• 1 Samuel 18:30

  Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 25:19

  She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

• 1 Samuel 25:22

  God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off of her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:24

  She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

• 1 Samuel 25:26

  Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:27

  Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

• 1 Samuel 25:28

  Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

• 1 Samuel 25:29

  Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

• 1 Samuel 25:30

  It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

• 1 Samuel 25:31

  that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 15:33

  David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

• 2 Samuel 15:34

  but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

• 2 Samuel 15:35

  Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

• 2 Samuel 15:36

  Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”

• 2 Samuel 15:37

  So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 12:7

  They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

• 1 Kings 19:3

  When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

• 1 Kings 19:4

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

• 2 Kings 7:12

  The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

• 2 Kings 7:13

  One of his servants answered, “Please let some people take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let us send and see.”

• Nehemiah 2:12

  I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

• Nehemiah 2:16

  The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

• Nehemiah 4:13

  Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

• Nehemiah 4:14

  I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

• Nehemiah 4:15

  When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

• Nehemiah 4:16

  From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

• Nehemiah 4:17

  Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

• Nehemiah 4:18

  Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

• Nehemiah 4:19

  I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from one another.

• Nehemiah 4:20

  Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

• Nehemiah 4:21

  So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

• Nehemiah 4:22

  Likewise at the same time said I to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”

• Nehemiah 4:23

  So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

• Job 34:3

  For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

• Job 34:4

  Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

• Psalms 39:1

  For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. 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.”

• Psalms 112:5

  It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

• Proverbs 6:1

  My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

• Proverbs 6:2

  You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

• Proverbs 8:12

  “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

• Proverbs 11:13

  One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

• Proverbs 11:15

  He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

• Proverbs 11:29

  He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

• Proverbs 12:8

  A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

• Proverbs 12:16

  A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

• Proverbs 12:23

  A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

• Proverbs 13:16

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

• Proverbs 14:8

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 14:15

  A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

• Proverbs 14:16

  A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

• Proverbs 14:18

  The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

• Proverbs 15:22

  Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

• Proverbs 16:20

  He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

• Proverbs 16:21

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

• Proverbs 17:2

  A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

• Proverbs 17:18

  A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

• Proverbs 18:15

  The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

• Proverbs 18:16

  A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

• Proverbs 19:2

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

• Proverbs 20:5

  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

• Proverbs 20:16

  Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

• Proverbs 20:18

  Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

• Proverbs 21:5

  The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

• Proverbs 21:20

  There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

• Proverbs 21:23

  Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

• Proverbs 22:3

  A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

• Proverbs 22:7

  The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

• Proverbs 22:26

  Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

• Proverbs 22:27

  If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

• Proverbs 23:1

  When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

• Proverbs 23:2

  put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

• Proverbs 23:3

  Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

• Proverbs 23:9

  Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

• Proverbs 24:6

  for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

• Proverbs 24:27

  Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

• Proverbs 25:8

  Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

• Proverbs 25:9

  Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;

• Proverbs 25:10

  lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.

• Proverbs 26:4

  Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

• Proverbs 26:5

  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

• Proverbs 27:12

  A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

• Proverbs 29:8

  Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

• Proverbs 29:11

  A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

• Ecclesiastes 7:16

  Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

• Ecclesiastes 7:17

  Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

• Ecclesiastes 8:2

  I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

• Ecclesiastes 8:3

  Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

• Ecclesiastes 10:1

  Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

• Ecclesiastes 10:10

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

• Jeremiah 26:17

  Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

• Jeremiah 26:18

  “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

• Jeremiah 26:19

  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

• Jeremiah 26:20

  There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 26:21

  When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

• Jeremiah 26:22

  and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

• Jeremiah 26:23

  and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 1:9

  Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

• Daniel 1:10

  The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.

• Daniel 1:11

  Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

• Daniel 1:12

  Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

• Daniel 1:13

  Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.

• Daniel 1:14

  So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

• Hosea 14:9

  Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

• Amos 5:13

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

• Matthew 1:19

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Matthew 5:25

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 5:26

  Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 7:6

  “Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 9:30

  Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

• Matthew 12:14

  But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

• Matthew 12:15

  Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

• Matthew 12:16

  and commanded them that they should not make him known:

• Matthew 16:20

  Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

• Mark 3:7

  Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

• Mark 3:12

  He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

• Mark 5:43

  He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.

• Mark 7:36

  He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

• Mark 8:30

  He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

• Mark 9:9

  As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

• Luke 14:28

  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

• Luke 14:29

  Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

• Luke 14:30

  saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• Luke 14:32

  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

• John 7:10

  But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

• John 11:47

  The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

• John 11:48

  If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

• John 11:49

  But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

• John 11:50

  nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

• John 11:51

  Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

• John 11:52

  and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

• John 11:53

  So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

• John 11:54

  Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

• John 12:36

  While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

• Acts 12:17

  But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James, and to the brothers.” Then he departed, and went to another place.

• Acts 14:6

  they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

• Acts 16:3

  Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

• Acts 17:10

  The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

• Acts 17:11

  Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

• Acts 17:12

  Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

• Acts 17:13

  But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

• Acts 17:14

  Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

• Acts 17:15

  But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

• Acts 19:29

  The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

• Acts 19:30

  When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

• Acts 19:31

  Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

• Acts 20:22

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

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 20:24

  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.

• Acts 20:25

  “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

• Acts 20:37

  They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

• Acts 20:38

  sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

• Acts 21:10

  As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

• Acts 21:11

  Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

• Acts 21:12

  When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

• Acts 21:13

  Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Acts 21:14

  When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

• Acts 21:20

  They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

• Acts 21:21

  They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.

• Acts 21:22

  What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

• Acts 21:23

  Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

• Acts 21:24

  Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

• Acts 21:25

  But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

• Acts 21:26

  Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

• Acts 23:6

  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

• Romans 14:16

  Then don’t let your good be slandered,

• 1 Corinthians 6:12

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

• 1 Corinthians 8:8

  But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

• 1 Corinthians 8:9

  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 8:13

  Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

• 1 Corinthians 10:23

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

• 1 Corinthians 10:25

  Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

• 1 Corinthians 10:26

  for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:27

  But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:29

  Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

• 1 Corinthians 10:30

  If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

• 1 Corinthians 10:32

  Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

• 1 Corinthians 10:33

  even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

• 2 Corinthians 8:20

  We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

• Colossians 4:5

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

• James 1:19

  So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;