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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
God Will Repay
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“Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.”—Matthew 19:29
Sacrifice isn’t convenient. It never is. But God still calls us to it. How does Jesus influence us to sacrifice? What’s the appeal? How does He persuade us? The answer is clear: Reward. Real, eternal, abundant reward. …
This is the principle: When you sacrifice, for the sake of Jesus and the Gospel, you will be richly rewarded, and your reward will be real, eternal, and abundant. …
An error that our culture spreads is the idea that serving others is good because it makes us feel good. Our culture is largely secular, so people don’t commonly talk about serving God and receiving a real, eternal, abundant reward. Instead, they talk about how being a “good” person makes us feel good.
Sometimes Christians believe this error, and they lose perspective on why they are sacrificing and what they are sacrificing for. Inevitably, this leads to apathy, going through the motions, and eventually, burnout. … Jesus doesn’t offer some lame promise about feeling good about yourself when you do good things. He promises a real, eternal, abundant reward.
Our sacrifice—if it’s done to honor Jesus—is never wasted. God honors our faithfulness, and Jesus promises a real, eternal, abundant reward.—Ryan McCoskey1
Eternal dividends
If we could learn to look at people and situations the way God does and then act accordingly, how differently we would do things! Just about everyone has heard the biblical maxim, “It’s more blessed to give than to receive.”2 Most of us agree in principle, but it’s often a case of easier said than done.
What we need to remember is that God never expects us to do anything He knows we can’t without His help. He wouldn’t tell us to love unselfishly if He weren’t right there with us to help us do just that. This is where faith comes in. If we really believe what He tells us, we act on it—even if it’s contrary to our natural reasoning or the way the world around us operates. And when we do, we reap the innumerable and incomparable rewards God has reserved for those who love unselfishly.
It may not pay off immediately or in dollars and cents, but you won’t be sorry. Sooner or later God will more than make it up to you! Even the seeming sacrifices aren’t sacrifices. They’re investments that will someday pay big dividends.—Author unknown
His promise
“Peter began to say to Him, ‘Behold, we have left everything and followed You.’ Jesus said, ‘Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.’”—Mark 10:28–30
Whether or not the Lord chooses to return exactly what we have given up for His sake, Jesus promises to reward us “a hundred times”—an unimaginable profit.
What have you given up in order to obey the Lord? Don’t grow bitter if you have yet to see its payoff. Trust and take God at His Word; the reward will be far greater than anything you can imagine. Though you may not recognize the reward on this side of heaven, you will fully realize it with eternity’s perspective.
Is God asking you to let go of something or someone important in your life? Whether it is a career, living close to family, an important relationship, a means of income, a hobby, or a place of security, there is no need or desire sacrificed for which the Lord is not able to provide, perhaps in ways you have never thought of before.
Since the day I walked out the door of my dream college, following the Lord has required many more sacrifices. ... But every step of the way, God has blessed me beyond measure. I have never regretted my decision to walk away from my filmmaking ambitions in order to follow Jesus. I joyfully resonate with these words from the old hymn, “Jesus I My Cross Have Taken”:
Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought, or hoped, or known. But how rich is my condition! God and Heaven are still my own.
In the end, no matter what we have sacrificed for Jesus, the cost cannot surpass the benefits of what He has promised “in the age to come”3: eternity in His presence, where all of our needs and desires will be fully met in Christ.—Lauren Rushiti4
Choosing the recompense of the reward
Moses, who had as a babe been drawn from the bulrushes by Pharaoh’s daughter, was reared in her father’s palace. There was such wealth and every luxury. But when he came of age he had to come face to face with the king, who challenged him to make a choice. He was a Hebrew, not an Egyptian, and Pharaoh demanded that he declare himself now. Would he cast his lot with his alien mother and be true to Egypt and wear the crown of the pharaohs? Or would he choose his own people? What a crisis hour it was for this young man Moses!
If he chooses to be one of the Hebrew people, he must forget all the comfort and luxury he has always had, wear the hated garb of the slave, and renounce forever the only mother he’d ever known, Pharaoh’s daughter. But he chose, as God’s Word says, “rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”5
These pleasures of sin spoken of here in the Bible were more tempting than appears by this mere statement, because Egypt at that time was the most attractive spot on earth. Her granaries were bursting with grain and the wealth of the world poured into her treasury.
From the possessions of the mightiest empire on earth Moses would have to take on slavery. But he was far-sighted and had this willingness to sacrifice for the future gain; “he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.”6 In other words, he knew that the pleasures of sin were only for a moment, and the future recompense of God’s reward was for all eternity.
He believed that without God’s favor, a millionaire is only a pauper. It was said of Christ, “though he was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor,”7 and this was the choice that Moses had to make, which entailed poverty and suffering and terrible humiliation. But he chose to be the least of God’s children without an earthly crown and wear a diadem forever in the life to come. So he took a stand with God’s children that he might stand with them before the eternal King over there.
Second Peter 1:9 speaks of a people who are blind and cannot see afar off. So many are like that today when they make their choices; they can see only the present. They sell out the future for the present. So many are blind spiritually to the great recompense of reward that God has! They have spiritual near-sightedness of the soul.
Standing with Moses on the steps of the palace, it looks like a foolish choice. But standing on the steps of the throne of God over there, as Moses looks back, what a wise, what a glorious choice it was! He became one of the world’s greatest leaders. He led a strange band of people on a long journey, and what a story it is! His name has gone down in history and his influence reaches to this very day.
“Myopia” is a Greek word that means nearsightedness. You can have spiritual myopia to where you’re not farsighted—you’re living mostly for the present and you don’t keep your heart and eyes on the great recompense of reward. The Lord says if we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.8
Are there pleasures of any kind that are blinding you to that farsighted vision of the great recompense He has promised? The realities of eternity are pleasures forevermore. God who loves you has made great plans for you and for your life. Are you making your choice for the things that matter eternally?
Better to sacrifice now, dearly beloved, and then glory afterward. God loves you and God has planned so very much for you. Live in His Word. Trust Him to work it all out for your good and His glory.—Virginia Brandt Berg
Published on Anchor March 2022. Read by Gabriel Garcia Valdivieso.
Music by John Listen.
Hebrews 6 - KJV
Hebrews 6 King James Version
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
King James Version (KJV) Public Domain
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
King James Version (KJV) Public Domain
The Daily Voice - February 3 - Jesus learned obedience through the things that He suffered
Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things
that He suffered - Hebrews 5:8
Jesus learned obedience through the things that He suffered.
Meditate on that for a moment. The Son of God learned obedience through submitting
Himself completely to the will of the Father. He endured the suffering for the
joy that was set before Him of bringing humanity redemption from their sins.
In Gethsemane, He cried out to the Father saying, “Father, if
Thou be willing, remove this cup from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Thine
be done,” Luke 22:42. But the Father didn’t remove the cup of suffering, and
Jesus died a sinner’s death for you and me. The suffering was His pathway to
glory.
Hebrews 12:2b (He) endured the cross, … and is set down on
the right hand of the throne of God.
Apostle Paul tells us we should strive to have our minds
conformed to the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5-6 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form (or nature) of God, thought it not robbery
to be equal with God:
Jesus was constantly affirming that He and the Father were one.
He could do nothing without the Father. Jesus claimed He could forgive sins
like the Father. He claimed that He would sit at the right hand of the Father.
He claimed he would come in the clouds of heaven which is imagery usually used
only for Jehovah God, or God the Father.
Philippians 2:7 But (Jesus) made Himself of no reputation,
and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Apostle Paul is telling us, that if we desire to have the
mind of Christ, we should seek to be like Jesus. We should not seek for reputation
or fame. We should rather humbly serve others, as Jesus has said. He that is
greatest among you shall be your servant, Matthew 23:11.
Philippians 2:8 And being found in the fashion as a man, He
humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient unto death.
Apostle Paul tells us we should put on Christ’s mind. We should follow Jesus’
example of humble obedience to the will of God, even in the face of extreme
suffering and death.
Because Jesus was willing to suffer the death of the cross, God has highly exalted Him.
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him,
and given Him a name which is above every name.
Jesus learned obedience through the things He suffered.
Through suffering and death, He has defeated the devil and death. He has opened
the door to eternal life to all that believe on Him.
Hebrews 2:14-15 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers
of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same, that
through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.
1 John 3:8b For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that He might destroy the works of the Devil.
Jesus has suffered, died, and rose again. As many as receive
Him to them gives He the power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name. Believe on the Lord Jesus today.
Link to a study on Psalm 33
La Voz Diaria - 3 de febrero - Aunque era Hijo, aprendió la obediencia por lo que padeció
Aunque era Hijo, aprendió la obediencia por lo que padeció - Hebreos 5:8
Jesús aprendió la obediencia por lo que padeció. Medita en ello por un momento. El Hijo de Dios aprendió la obediencia al someterse completamente a la voluntad del Padre. Soportó el sufrimiento por el gozo puesto ante Él de traer a la humanidad la redención de sus pecados.
En GetsemanÃ, clamó al Padre diciendo: «Padre, si quieres, aparta de mà esta copa; pero no se haga mi voluntad, sino la tuya» (Lucas 22:42). Pero el Padre no apartó la copa del sufrimiento, y Jesús murió como pecador por ti y por mÃ. El sufrimiento fue su camino a la gloria.
Hebreos 12:2b (Él) sufrió la cruz… y está sentado a la diestra del trono de Dios.
El apóstol Pablo nos dice que debemos esforzarnos por conformar nuestra mente a la de Cristo.
Filipenses 2:5-6 Haya, pues, en vosotros este sentir que hubo también en Cristo Jesús, el cual, siendo en forma (o naturaleza) de Dios, no estimó como usurpación ser igual a Dios.
Jesús afirmaba constantemente que Él y el Padre eran uno. No podÃa hacer nada sin el Padre. Jesús afirmó que podÃa perdonar pecados como el Padre. Afirmó que se sentarÃa a la diestra del Padre. Afirmó que vendrÃa en las nubes del cielo, una imagen que generalmente solo se usa para Jehová Dios, o Dios Padre.
Filipenses 2:7 Pero (Jesús) se despojó a sà mismo, tomando forma de siervo, hecho semejante a los hombres.
El apóstol Pablo nos dice que si deseamos tener la mente de Cristo, debemos procurar ser como Jesús. No debemos buscar reputación ni fama. Más bien, debemos servir humildemente a los demás, como dijo Jesús. El mayor entre ustedes será su siervo (Mateo 23:11). Filipenses 2:8 Y estando en la condición de hombre, se humilló a sà mismo, haciéndose obediente hasta la muerte, y muerte de cruz.
Jesús se humilló a sà mismo, haciéndose obediente hasta la muerte. El apóstol Pablo nos dice que debemos tener la mente de Cristo. Debemos seguir el ejemplo de Jesús de humilde obediencia a la voluntad de Dios, incluso frente al sufrimiento extremo y la muerte.
Porque Jesús estuvo dispuesto a sufrir la muerte de cruz, Dios lo exaltó hasta lo sumo.
Filipenses 2:9 Por lo cual Dios también lo exaltó hasta lo sumo, y le dio un nombre que es sobre todo nombre.
Jesús aprendió la obediencia a través de lo que sufrió. Mediante el sufrimiento y la muerte, venció al diablo y a la muerte. Abrió la puerta a la vida eterna a todos los que creen en él.
Hebreos 2:14-15 Asà que, por cuanto los hijos participaron de carne y sangre, él también participó de lo mismo, para destruir por medio de la muerte al que tenÃa el imperio de la muerte, es decir, al diablo, y librar a todos los que por el temor a la muerte estaban durante toda la vida sujetos a servidumbre.
1 Juan 3:8b Para esto se manifestó el Hijo de Dios, para destruir las obras del diablo.
Jesús padeció, murió y resucitó. A todos los que lo reciben, les da poder de ser hechos hijos de Dios, es decir, a los que creen en su nombre. Cree en el Señor Jesús hoy.
Un estudio del Salmo 33
A Voz Diária - 3 de fevereiro - Embora fosse Filho, aprendeu a obediência através do sofrimento
Embora fosse Filho, aprendeu a obediência através do sofrimento (Hebreus 5:8).
Jesus aprendeu a obediência através do sofrimento. Medite nisso por um momento. O Filho de Deus aprendeu a obediência submetendo-se completamente à vontade do Pai. Suportou o sofrimento pela alegria que Lhe foi proposta: a redenção da humanidade dos seus pecados.
No Getsémani, clamou ao Pai, dizendo: “Pai, se queres, afasta de mim este cálice; contudo, não seja feita a minha vontade, mas a tua” (Lucas 22:42). Mas o Pai não afastou o cálice do sofrimento, e Jesus morreu a morte de um pecador por ti e por mim. O sofrimento foi o seu caminho para a glória.
Hebreus 12:2b: “Suportou a cruz, … e assentou-se à direita do trono de Deus”.
O apóstolo Paulo diz-nos que devemos esforçar-nos por conformar a nossa mente à mente de Cristo.
Filipenses 2:5-6 Tende entre vós o mesmo modo de pensar que Cristo Jesus tinha: Ele, que era de natureza divina, não considerou o ser igual a Deus algo a que se devesse agarrar.
Jesus afirmava constantemente que Ele e o Pai eram um só. Nada podia fazer sem o Pai. Jesus afirmava que podia perdoar os pecados como o Pai. Afirmava que se sentaria à direita do Pai. Afirmava que viria nas nuvens do céu, imagem geralmente usada apenas para Jeová Deus, ou Deus Pai.
Filipenses 2:7 Mas (Jesus) esvaziou-se a si mesmo, tomando a forma de servo, tornando-se semelhante aos homens.
O apóstolo Paulo diz-nos que, se desejamos ter a mente de Cristo, devemos procurar ser como Jesus. Não devemos procurar reputação ou fama. Em vez disso, devemos servir os outros com humildade, como Jesus disse: "O maior entre vós deverá ser servo de todos" (Mateus 23:11).
Filipenses 2:8 E, sendo encontrado em forma humana, humilhou-se a si mesmo e foi obediente até à morte, e morte de cruz!
Jesus humilhou-se e tornou-se obediente até à morte. O apóstolo Paulo diz-nos que devemos ter a mentalidade de Cristo. Devemos seguir o exemplo de Jesus de humilde obediência à vontade de Deus, mesmo perante o sofrimento e a morte extremos.
Porque Jesus estava disposto a sofrer a morte na cruz, Deus exaltou-O grandemente.
Filipenses 2:9 Por isso, Deus o exaltou grandemente e lhe deu o nome que está acima de todo o nome.
Jesus aprendeu a obediência através do sofrimento. Através do sofrimento e da morte, Ele derrotou o diabo e a morte. Ele abriu a porta da vida eterna a todos os que n’Ele acreditam.
Hebreus 2:14-15 Portanto, visto que os filhos participam da carne e do sangue, também ele participou da mesma natureza, para que pela morte destruÃsse aquele que tem o poder da morte, isto é, o diabo; e libertá-los, os quais, pelo medo da morte, estavam sujeitos à escravidão durante toda a vida.
1 João 3:8b Para isto se manifestou o Filho de Deus: para destruir as obras do diabo.
Jesus sofreu, morreu e ressuscitou. A todos quantos o recebem, Ele dá-lhes o poder de se tornarem filhos de Deus, a saber, aos que crêem no Seu nome. Creia no Senhor Jesus hoje.
um Estudo do Salmo 33
Hebrews 5 - KJV
Hebrews 5 King James Version
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he says also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Proverbs - 3 - KJV
Proverbs 3 KJV
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
12 For whom the Lord loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
19 The Lord by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
24 When you lie down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou has it by thee.
29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwells securely by thee.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.
34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
King James Version (KJV) Public Domain
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
12 For whom the Lord loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
19 The Lord by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
24 When you lie down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou has it by thee.
29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwells securely by thee.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.
34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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