34 (A)Blessed is the one who listens to me,
    watching daily at my gates,
    waiting beside my doors.

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28 But he said, (A)“Blessed rather are those (B)who hear the word of God and (C)keep it!”

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Build Your House on the Rock

24 (A)“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like (B)a wise man who built his house on the rock.

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Blessed Is the One Who Finds Wisdom

13 (A)Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
    and the one who gets understanding,

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The Fellowship of the Believers

42 And (A)they devoted themselves to the apostles' (B)teaching and the (C)fellowship, to (D)the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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39 And she had a sister called (A)Mary, who (B)sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

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11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, (A)examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. 12 (B)Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek (C)women of high standing as well as men.

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18 She is (A)a tree of life to those who (B)lay hold of her;
    those who hold her fast are called blessed.

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yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice (A)for understanding,
if you seek it like (B)silver
    and search for it as for (C)hidden treasures,

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10 For a day (A)in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be (B)a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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(A)One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may (B)dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze upon (C)the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire[a] in his temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:4 Or meditate

And they were both (A)righteous before God, walking (B)blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

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21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
    at (A)the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

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22 But be (A)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, (B)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, (C)he will be blessed in his doing.

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13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in (A)the courts of our God.

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The Truth Will Set You Free

31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, (A)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will (B)know the truth, and the truth (C)will set you free.”

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