Proverbs 4:24–27

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

¹³The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

²⁶Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

²⁷Neither give place to the devil.

²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

¹²¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

¹WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

⁵Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

²⁰He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

¹⁴If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

³¹¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

³⁷Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

²²The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

¹I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

¹³And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

²³The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

⁵O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

³But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

⁵Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

⁷¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

⁵⁹I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

²⁸Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

²He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

¹³To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

¹⁰But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

³²Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

⁷Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

¹⁴And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹⁷The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

³²What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

¹⁶¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

⁹Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.