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Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power.  They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance.  Therefore thus says the LORD:  Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of evil.

Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble.  Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.

And to man he said:  Behold, the fear of the LORD is wisdom; and avoiding evil is understanding.

My son, from your youth embrace discipline; thus will you find wisdom with graying hair.

Discard not an old friend, for the new one cannot equal him.  A new friend is like new wine which you drink with pleasure only when it has aged.

The LORD God said:  “It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a suitable partner for him.”  So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.  The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.

Two are better than one:  they get a good wage for their labor.  If the one falls, the other will lift up his companion.  Woe to the solitary man!  For if he should fall, he has no one to lift him up.  So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm.  How can one alone keep warm?  Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist.  A three-ply cord is not easily broken.

When you pass through the water, I will be with you; in the rivers you shall not drown.  When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned; the flames shall not consume you.

For near is the day of the LORD for all the nations!  As you have done, so shall it be done to you, your deed shall come back upon your own head

If a man is virtuous–if he does what is right and just, if he does not eat on the mountains, nor raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; if he does not defile his neighbor’s wife, nor have relations with a woman in her menstrual period; if he oppresses no one, gives back the pledge received for a debt, commits no robbery; if he gives food to the hungry and clothes the naked; if he does not lend at interest nor exact usury; if he holds off from evildoing, judges fairly between a man and his opponent; if he lives by my statutes and is careful to observe my ordinances, that man is virtuous–he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.