Today’s
Reading : Proverbs 4 – 7 and
Hebrews 10 (KJV)
Proverbs
4
Pro
4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a
father, and attend to know understanding.
Pro 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not
my law.
Pro 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Pro 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and
live.
Pro 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my
mouth.
Pro 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:
love her, and she shall keep thee.
Pro 4:7 Wisdom is
the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Pro 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she
shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Pro 4:9 She shall give to thine
head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Pro 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and
the years of thy life shall be many.
Pro 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I
have led thee in right paths.
Pro 4:12 When thou goest,
thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest,
thou shalt not stumble.
Pro 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Pro 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go
not in the way of evil men.
Pro 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and
pass away.
Pro 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done
mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and
drink the wine of violence.
Pro 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth
more and more unto the perfect day.
Pro 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they
stumble.
Pro 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from thine
eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Pro 4:22 For they are
life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.
Pro 4:24 Put away from thee a froward
mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Pro 4:25 Let thine eyes look
right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before
thee.
Pro 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy
ways be established.
Pro 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:
remove thy foot from evil.
Proverbs 5
Pro
5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
understanding:
Pro 5:2 That thou mayest
regard discretion, and that thy lips may
keep knowledge.
Pro 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take
hold on hell.
Pro 5:6 Lest thou shouldest
ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that
thou canst not know them.
Pro 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and
depart not from the words of my mouth.
Pro 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not
nigh the door of her house:
Pro 5:9 Lest thou give thine
honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pro 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and
thy labours be in the house of a
stranger;
Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh
and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my
heart despised reproof;
Pro 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Pro 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
congregation and assembly.
Pro 5:15 Drink waters out of thine
own cistern, and running waters out of thine own
well.
Pro 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pro 5:17 Let them be only thine
own, and not strangers' with thee.
Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with
the wife of thy youth.
Pro 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her
breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Pro 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a
strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Pro 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked
himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his
sins.
Pro 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the
greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 6
Pro
6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Pro 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Pro 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make
sure thy friend.
Pro 6:4 Give not sleep to thine
eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Pro 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the
fowler.
Pro 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways, and be wise:
Pro 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pro 6:8 Provideth her meat
in the summer, and gathereth
her food in the harvest.
Pro 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when
wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Pro 6:10 Yet a
little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Pro 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Pro 6:13 He winketh with his
eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Pro 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth
mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Pro 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pro 6:16 These six things
doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that
shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 A heart that deviseth
wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that
speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among brethren.
Pro 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and
forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie
them about thy neck.
Pro 6:22 When thou goest, it
shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep
thee; and when thou awakest,
it shall talk with thee.
Pro 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Pro 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the
flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pro 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Pro 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought
to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Pro 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes
not be burned?
Pro 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not
be burned?
Pro 6:29 So he that goeth in
to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall
not be innocent.
Pro 6:30 Men do
not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Pro 6:31 But if
he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his
house.
Pro 6:32 But
whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that
doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pro 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his
reproach shall not be wiped away.
Pro 6:34 For jealousy is
the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Pro 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will
he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 7
Pro
7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my
commandments with thee.
Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as
the apple of thine eye.
Pro 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon
the table of thine heart.
Pro 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pro 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange
woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Pro 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through
my casement,
Pro 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned
among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pro 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner;
and he went the way to her house,
Pro 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black
and dark night:
Pro 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
Pro 7:11 (She is
loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Pro 7:12 Now is
she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Pro 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I
paid my vows.
Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Pro 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of
tapestry, with carved works, with fine
linen of Egypt.
Pro 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and
cinnamon.
Pro 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the
morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Pro 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pro 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to
yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pro 7:22 He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a
fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pro 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a
bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth
not that it is for his life.
Pro 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,
and attend to the words of my mouth.
Pro 7:25 Let not thine heart
decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Pro 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea,
many strong men have been slain by her.
Pro 7:27 Her house is
the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Hebrews
10
Heb
10:1 For the law having
a shadow of good things to come, and not
the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they
offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices
there is
a remembrance again made of sins every
year.
Heb 10:4 For it
is not possible that the blood of bulls
and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering
and burnt offerings and offering for sin
thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein; which are offered by
the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish
the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is
the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is
no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having
a high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but
exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without
mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye,
shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and
hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I
will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord
shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is
a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in
which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Heb 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly,
whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Heb 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and
took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in
heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompense of reward.
Heb 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Heb 10:37 For yet, a little while, and he that shall
come will come, and will not tarry.
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Heb 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.