Proverbs
8:1-4, 22-31
8:1
Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise
her voice?
8:2
On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she
takes her stand;
8:3
beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance
of the portals she cries out:
8:4
"To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all
that live.
8:22
The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the
first of his acts of long ago.
8:23
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the
beginning of the earth.
8:24
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when
there were no springs abounding with water.
8:25
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills,
I was brought forth--
8:26
when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the
world's first bits of soil.
8:27
When he established the heavens, I was there, when he
drew a circle on the face of the deep,
8:28
when he made firm the skies above, when he established
the fountains of the deep,
8:29
when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the
waters might not transgress his command, when he marked
out the foundations of the earth,
8:30
then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was
daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
8:31
rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the
human race.
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8:1
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
8:2
Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded
a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and
the avenger.
8:3
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
8:4
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
8:5
Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and
crowned them with glory and honor.
8:6
You have given them dominion over the works of your
hands; you have put all things under their feet,
8:7
all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
8:8
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever
passes along the paths of the seas.
8:9
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
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5:1
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:2
through whom we have obtained access to this grace in
which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the
glory of God.
5:3
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces endurance,
5:4
and endurance produces character, and character produces
hope,
5:5
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that
has been given to us.
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16:12
"I still have many things to say to you, but you
cannot bear them now.
16:13
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into
all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but
will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you
the things that are to come.
16:14
He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine
and declare it to you.
16:15
All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said
that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
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