- Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers. - In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps. - So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. - Fools show their annoyance at once,
but the prudent overlook an insult. - “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
- One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control. - Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes. - He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God. - The Lord makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him. - For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Anxiety weighs down the heart,
but a kind word cheers it up. - Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross! - He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
- Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious,
but fools are consumed by their own lips. - Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they imagine it a wall too high to scale. - My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
- With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
but through knowledge the righteous escape. - It is a trap to dedicate something rashly
and only later to consider one’s vows. - He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- “And with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone
according to what they have done.” - Do not envy the violent
or choose any of their ways.
For the Lord detests the perverse
but takes the upright into his confidence. - Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.Next verse!With image 
