- A perverse man stirs up strife.
A whisperer separates close friends. - He who covers an offense promotes love;
but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. - A man of many companions may be ruined,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
- The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears,
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart,
and saves those who have a crushed spirit. - Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise.
When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. - But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
- Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth. - No one has seen God at any time. The only born Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
- Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near. - Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
- And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
- From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
- Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
- But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff,
they comfort me. - Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us.
- But he knows the way that I take.
When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
My foot has held fast to his steps.
I have kept his way, and not turned away.
May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us. See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?Next verse!With image