Proverbs 22-23

New King James Version

The Value of a Good Name

22 A ^(A)good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

²The ^(B)rich and the poor have this in common,
The ^(C)Lord is the maker of them all.

³A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself,
But the simple pass on and are ^(D)punished.

⁴By humility and the fear of the Lord
Are riches and honor and life.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards his soul will be far from them.

⁶^(E)Train up a child in the way he should go,
^[a]And when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷The ^(F)rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸He who sows iniquity will reap ^(G)sorrow,^[b]
And the rod of his anger will fail.

⁹^(H)He who has a ^[c]generous eye will be ^(I)blessed,
For he gives of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰^(J)Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave;
Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

¹¹^(K)He who loves purity of heart
And has grace on his lips,
The king will be his friend.

¹²The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.

¹³^(L)The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be slain in the streets!”

¹⁴^(M)The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit;
^(N)He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.

¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
^(O)The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

¹⁶He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches,
And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

Sayings of the Wise

¹⁷Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,
And apply your heart to my knowledge;
¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you;
Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
¹⁹So that your trust may be in the Lord;
I have instructed you today, even you.
²⁰Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
²¹^(P)That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
^(Q)That you may answer words of truth
To those who ^[d]send to you?

²²Do not rob the ^(R)poor because he is poor,
Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
²³^(S)For the Lord will plead their cause,
And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

²⁴Make no friendship with an angry man,
And with a ^(T)furious man do not go,
²⁵Lest you learn his ways
And set a snare for your soul.

²⁶^(U)Do not be one of those who ^[e]shakes hands in a pledge,
One of those who is ^[f]surety for debts;
²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take away your bed from under you?

²⁸^(V)Do not remove the ancient ^[g]landmark
Which your fathers have set.

²⁹Do you see a man who ^[h]excels in his work?
He will stand before kings;
He will not stand before ^[i]unknown men.

Listen to Your Father

23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you;
²And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man given to appetite.
³Do not desire his delicacies,
For they are deceptive food.

⁴^(W)Do not overwork to be rich;
^(X)Because of your own understanding, cease!
⁵^[j]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

⁶Do not eat the bread of ^(Y)a^[k] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
⁷For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” ^(Z)he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
⁸The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
And waste your pleasant words.

⁹^(AA)Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰Do not remove the ancient ^[l]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
¹¹^(AB)For their Redeemer is mighty;
He will plead their cause against you.

¹²Apply your heart to instruction,
And your ears to words of knowledge.

¹³^(AC)Do not withhold correction from a child,
For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
¹⁴You shall beat him with a rod,
And deliver his soul from ^[m]hell.

¹⁵My son, if your heart is wise,
My heart will rejoice—indeed, I myself;
¹⁶Yes, my ^[n]inmost being will rejoice
When your lips speak right things.

¹⁷^(AD)Do not let your heart envy sinners,
But ^(AE)be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day;
¹⁸^(AF)For surely there is a ^[o]hereafter,
And your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁹Hear, my son, and be wise;
And guide your heart in the way.
²⁰^(AG)Do not mix with winebibbers,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
²¹For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

²²^(AH)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

²³^(AI)Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁴^(AJ)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
²⁵Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who bore you rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me your heart,
And let your eyes observe my ways.
²⁷^(AK)For a harlot is a deep pit,
And a seductress is a narrow well.
²⁸^(AL)She also lies in wait as for a victim,
And increases the unfaithful among men.

²⁹^(AM)Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who ^(AN)has redness of eyes?
³⁰^(AO)Those who linger long at the wine,
Those who go in search of ^(AP)mixed wine.
³¹Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it ^[p]swirls around smoothly;
³²At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like a viper.
³³Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.
³⁴Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the ^[q]midst of the sea,
Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:
³⁵“They^(AQ) have struck me, but I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.
When shall ^(AR)I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

Notas al pie

Proverbs 22:6 Even
Proverbs 22:8 trouble
Proverbs 22:9 Lit. good
Proverbs 22:21 Or send you
Proverbs 22:26 Lit. strikes
Proverbs 22:26 guaranty
Proverbs 22:28 boundary
Proverbs 22:29 is prompt in his business
Proverbs 22:29 obscure
Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?
Proverbs 23:6 Lit. one who has an evil eye
Proverbs 23:10 boundary
Proverbs 23:14 Or Sheol
Proverbs 23:16 Lit. kidneys
Proverbs 23:18 Future, lit. latter end
Proverbs 23:31 goes around
Proverbs 23:34 Lit. heart

Psalm 117

New King James Version

Let All Peoples Praise the Lord

117 Praise ^(A)the Lord, all you Gentiles!
^[a]Laud Him, all you peoples!
²For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
And ^(B)the truth of the Lord endures forever.

Praise the Lord!

Notas al pie

Psalm 117:1 Praise

Galatians 1

New King James Version

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but ^(A)through Jesus Christ and God the Father ^(B)who raised Him from the dead), ²and all the brethren who are with me,

To the churches of Galatia:

³Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴^(C)who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us ^(D)from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Only One Gospel

⁶I marvel that you are turning away so soon ^(E)from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, ⁷^(F)which is not another; but there are some ^(G)who trouble you and want to ^(H)pervert^[a] the gospel of Christ. ⁸But even if ^(I)we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be ^[b]accursed. ⁹As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you ^(J)than what you have received, let him be accursed.

¹⁰For ^(K)do I now ^(L)persuade men, or God? Or ^(M)do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

Call to Apostleship^(N)

¹¹^(O)But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. ¹²For ^(P)I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came ^(Q)through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how ^(R)I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and ^(S)tried to destroy it. ¹⁴And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, ^(T)being more exceedingly zealous ^(U)for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it pleased God, ^(V)who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, ¹⁶^(W)to reveal His Son in me, that ^(X)I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with ^(Y)flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Contacts at Jerusalem^(Z)

¹⁸Then after three years ^(AA)I went up to Jerusalem to see ^[c]Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹But ^(AB)I saw none of the other apostles except ^(AC)James, the Lord’s brother. ²⁰(Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)

²¹^(AD)Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²²And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which ^(AE)were in Christ. ²³But they were ^(AF)hearing only, “He who formerly ^(AG)persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴And they ^(AH)glorified God in me.