Proverbs 19:1–2

⁶Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

⁸Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

²⁶For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

²²The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

²He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

¹⁶Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.

⁷The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

⁵Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

⁶But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

²⁶The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

²⁶He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

¹¹But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

¹⁷Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

³¹¶ Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

³²And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

³³Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

³⁴O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

⁵The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

²⁰Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

¹⁶¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

⁶¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

³And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

²For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

²²He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

⁹And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

²⁰A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

⁸Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

¹¹When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

⁵If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;