[HNV] Proverbs 4, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
Proverbs, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Listen, sons, to a father's instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
{4:2} for I give you sound learning.
Don't forsake my law.
{4:3} For I was a son to my father,
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
{4:4} He taught me, and said to me:
"Let your heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
{4:5} Get wisdom.
Get understanding.
Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
{4:6} Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you.
Love her, and she will keep you.
{4:7} Wisdom is supreme.
Get wisdom.
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
{4:8} Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
{4:9} She will give to your head a garland of grace.
She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
{4:10} Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
The years of your life will be many.
{4:11} I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths.
{4:12} When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
When you run, you will not stumble.
{4:13} Take firm hold of instruction.
Don't let her go.
Keep her, for she is your life.
{4:14} Don't enter into the path of the wicked.
Don't walk in the way of evil men.
{4:15} Avoid it, and don't pass by it.
Turn from it, and pass on.
{4:16} For they don't sleep, unless they do evil.
Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
{4:17} For they eat the bread of wickedness,
and drink the wine of violence.
{4:18} But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light,
that shines more and more until the perfect day.
{4:19} The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don't know what they stumble over.
{4:20} My son, attend to my words.
Turn your ear to my sayings.
{4:21} Let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
{4:22} For they are life to those who find them,
and health to their whole body.
{4:23} Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it is the wellspring of life.
{4:24} Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
Put corrupt lips far from you.
{4:25} Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Fix your gaze directly before you.
{4:26} Make the path of your feet level.
Let all of your ways be established.
{4:27} Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.
{5:1} My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Turn your ear to my understanding:
{5:2} that you may maintain discretion,
that your lips may preserve knowledge.
{5:3} For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
Her mouth is smoother than oil,
{5:4} But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
{5:5} Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead straight to [1>]Sheol[<1].
{5:6} She gives no thought to the way of life.
Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
{5:7} Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
Don't depart from the words of my mouth.
{5:8} Remove your way far from her.
Don't come near the door of her house,
{5:9} lest you give your honor to others,
and your years to the cruel one;
{5:10} lest strangers feast on your wealth,
and your labors enrich another man's house.
{5:11} You will groan at your latter end,
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
{5:12} and say, "How I have hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof;
{5:13} neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
{5:14} I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
in the midst of the gathered assembly."
{5:15} Drink water out of your own cistern,
running water out of your own well.
{5:16} Should your springs overflow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?
{5:17} Let them be for yourself alone,
not for strangers with you.
{5:18} Let your spring be blessed.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
{5:19} A loving doe and a graceful deer--
let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
Be captivated always with her love.
{5:20} For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another?
{5:21} For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD.
He examines all his paths.
{5:22} The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.
The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
{5:23} He will die for lack of instruction.
In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
{6:1} My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
{6:2} You are trapped by the words of your mouth.
You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
{6:3} Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
Go, humble yourself.
Press your plea with your neighbor.
{6:4} Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.
{6:5} Free
[HNV] The Good News According to Matthew 15, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 15
{15:1} Then Pharisees and scribes came to Yeshua from Jerusalem,
saying, {15:2} "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the
elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
{15:3} He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of
God because of your tradition? {15:4} For God commanded, 'Honor your
father and your mother,'[1] and, 'He who speaks evil of father or
mother, let him be put to death.'[2] {15:5} But you say, 'Whoever may
tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have
gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," {15:6} he shall not honor
his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void
because of your tradition. {15:7} You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you, saying,
{15:8} 'These people draw near to me with their mouth,
and honor me with their lips;
but their heart is far from me.
{15:9} And in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"[3]
{15:10} He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and
understand. {15:11} That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile
the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the
man."
{15:12} Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that
the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
{15:13} But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father
didn't plant will be uprooted. {15:14} Leave them alone. They are
blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will
fall into a pit."
{15:15} Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
{15:16} So Yeshua said, "Do you also still not understand? {15:17}
Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the
belly, and then out of the body? {15:18} But the things which proceed
out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
{15:19} For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
{15:20} These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with
unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
{15:21} Yeshua went out from there, and withdrew into the region of
Tyre and Sidon. {15:22} Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those
borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David!
My daughter is severely demonized!"
{15:23} But he answered her not a word.
His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she
cries after us."
{15:24} But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep
of the house of Israel."
{15:25} But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
{15:26} But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the
children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
{15:27} But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs
which fall from their masters' table."
{15:28} Then Yeshua answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it
done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that
hour.
{15:29} Yeshua departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee;
and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. {15:30} Great
multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute,
maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed
them, {15:31} so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute
speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they
glorified the God of Israel.
{15:32} Yeshua summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion
on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and
have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they
might faint on the way."
{15:33} The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many
loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
{15:34} Yeshua said to them, "How many loaves do you have?"
They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
{15:35} He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
{15:36} and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and
broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the
multitudes. {15:37} They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven
baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over. {15:38} Those
who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. {15:39}
Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the
borders of Magdala.
Footnotes:
[1] {15:4} Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
[2] {15:4} Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
[3] {15:9} Isaiah 29:13
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