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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
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He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
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He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
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The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
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Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
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The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
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He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
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He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
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The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
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It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
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The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
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As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
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The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
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The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
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The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
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Deuteronomy 16
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Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
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Deuteronomy 17
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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
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If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
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And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
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And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
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Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
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If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;
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And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
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And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
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And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
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When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
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Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
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And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
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That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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Amos 1
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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
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But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
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But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
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But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
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And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.
Amos 2
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
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Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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