Alpet Sebelum 2021
King James Version
1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2. To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, 3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; 4. To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion–– 5. A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, 6. To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. 7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8. My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; 9. For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. 10. My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11. If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12. Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; 13. We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14. Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse" –– 15. My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; 16. For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. 17. Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; 18. But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives. 19. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. 20. Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. 21. She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words: 22. "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge. 23. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. 24. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, 25. Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, 26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, 27. When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. 28. "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. 29. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD, 30. They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. 31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. 32. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them; 33. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil."
1. My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, 2. So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; 3. Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, 4. If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; 5. Then you will understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God. 6. For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; 7. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly; 8. He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints. 9. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. 10. When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, 11. Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, 12. To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, 13. From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; 14. Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15. Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; 16. To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, 17. Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God. 18. For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead; 19. None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life–– 20. So you may walk in the way of goodness, And keep to the paths of righteousness. 21. For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it; 22. But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
1. He also said to His disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2. "So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’ 3. "Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4. ‘I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’ 5. "So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him , and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6. "And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7. "Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8. "So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light. 9. "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home. 10. "He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11. "Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches ? 12. "And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own? 13. "No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." 14. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. 15. And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. 16. "The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it. 17. "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail. 18. "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. 19. "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. 20. "But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21. "desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22. "So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23. "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24. "Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25. "But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26. ‘And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ 27. "Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28. ‘for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29. "Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30. "And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31. "But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’"