- Some friends can lead us to ruin,
but a true friend is closer than a brother. - He who guards his mouth makes his life secure,
but one who talks excessively ensures his own downfall. - However, those who want riches fall into temptations and are trapped into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- Repent and renounce all your transgressions. Otherwise your iniquity will prove to be your downfall.
- A wise man will heed commandments,
but a babbling fool will come to grief. - With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor,
but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered. - The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright,
but destruction for evildoers. - The Lord watches over the stranger
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he blocks the way of the wicked. - Do not let anyone lead you astray. “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
- However, if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you are upright in your dealings with your neighbor; if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you do not shed innocent blood in this place; and if you do not follow other gods and thereby cause your own destruction, then I will allow you to live in this place, in the land that I gave as a permanent gift to your fathers long ago.
- Can a woman forget the infant at her breast;
or feel no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
Behold, I have inscribed your name
on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before my eyes.
I shall forgive them for their wicked deeds,
and I shall remember their sins no more. For this reason, I rejoice when I endure weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and distress for the sake of Christ. For it is when I am weak that I am strong.Next verse!With image