Psalm 119:9
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Beth
9 How can (A)a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
2 Timothy 2:22
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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.
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James 1:21-25
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21 Therefore (A)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with (B)meekness the implanted word, (C)which is able to save your souls.
22 But be (D)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, (E)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, (F)he will be blessed in his doing.
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2 Timothy 3:15-17
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15 and how (A)from childhood you have been acquainted with (B)the sacred writings, (C)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 (D)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that (E)the man of God[a] may be complete, (F)equipped (G)for every good work.
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- 2 Timothy 3:17 That is, a messenger of God (the phrase echoes a common Old Testament expression)
Joshua 1:7
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7 Only be strong and (A)very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law (B)that Moses my servant commanded you. (C)Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[a] wherever you go.
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- Joshua 1:7 Or may act wisely
Psalm 25:7
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7 Remember not (A)the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your (B)steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
Psalm 119:11
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11 I have (A)stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Titus 2:4-6
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Psalm 34:11
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Psalm 119:97-105
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Mem
97 Oh how (A)I love your law!
It is my (B)meditation all the day.
98 Your commandment makes me (C)wiser than my enemies,
for it is ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for (D)your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than (E)the aged,[a]
for I (F)keep your precepts.
101 I (G)hold back my feet from every evil way,
in order to keep your word.
102 I do not turn aside from your rules,
for you have taught me.
103 How (H)sweet are your words to my taste,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts I get understanding;
therefore (I)I hate every false way.
Nun
105 (J)Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
Footnotes
- Psalm 119:100 Or the elders
Psalm 19:7-11
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7 (A)The law of the Lord is perfect,[a]
(B)reviving the soul;
(C)the testimony of the Lord is (D)sure,
(E)making wise (F)the simple;
8 (G)the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is (H)pure,
(I)enlightening the eyes;
9 the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules[b] of the Lord are (J)true,
and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than (K)gold,
even much (L)fine gold;
(M)sweeter also than honey
and drippings of (N)the honeycomb.
11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
(O)in keeping them there is great reward.
Footnotes
- Psalm 19:7 Or blameless
- Psalm 19:9 Or just decrees
Psalm 1:1-3
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Book One
The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked
1 Blessed is the man[a]
who (A)walks not in (B)the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in (C)the way of sinners,
nor (D)sits in (E)the seat of (F)scoffers;
2 but his (G)delight is in the law[b] of the Lord,
and on his (H)law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like (I)a tree
planted by (J)streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its (K)leaf does not wither.
(L)In all that he does, he prospers.
Proverbs 1:10
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10 My son, if sinners (A)entice you,
do not consent.
Proverbs 6:20-35
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Warnings Against Adultery
20 (A)My son, keep your father's commandment,
(B)and forsake not your mother's teaching.
21 (C)Bind them on your heart always;
(D)tie them around your neck.
22 (E)When you walk, they[a] will lead you;
(F)when you lie down, they will (G)watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is (H)a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the (I)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[b]
from the smooth tongue of (J)the adulteress.[c]
25 (K)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her (L)eyelashes;
26 for (M)the price of a prostitute is only (N)a loaf of bread,[d]
but a married woman[e] (O)hunts down a precious life.
27 Can a man carry (P)fire next to his (Q)chest
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one (R)walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her (S)will go unpunished.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
to (T)satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31 but (U)if he is caught, he will pay (V)sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For (W)jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when (X)he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse
- Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
- Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
- Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
- Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife
Proverbs 4:10-17
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10 (A)Hear, (B)my son, and accept my words,
that (C)the years of your life may be many.
11 I have (D)taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 When you walk, (E)your step will not be hampered,
and (F)if you run, you will not stumble.
13 (G)Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your (H)life.
14 (I)Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they (J)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
(K)and drink the wine of violence.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9
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6 And (A)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 (B)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 (C)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 (D)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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John 15:3
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3 Already (A)you are clean (B)because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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Proverbs 4:1
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Proverbs 5:7-23
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7 And (A)now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your (B)labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11 and at the end of your life you (C)groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, (D)“How I hated discipline,
and my heart (E)despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 (F)I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”
15 Drink (G)water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your (H)springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water (I)in the streets?
17 (J)Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your (K)fountain be blessed,
and (L)rejoice in (M)the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely (N)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts (O)fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated[a] always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with (P)a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of (Q)an adulteress?[b]
21 For (R)a man's ways are (S)before the eyes of the Lord,
and he (T)ponders[c] all his paths.
22 The (U)iniquities of the wicked (V)ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
23 (W)He dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is (X)led astray.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
- Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
- Proverbs 5:21 Or makes level
Proverbs 1:4
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Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:1
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9 (A)Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. (B)Walk in the ways of your heart and (C)the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things (D)God will bring you into judgment.
10 Remove vexation from your heart, and (E)put away pain[a] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
12 Remember also your Creator in (F)the days of your youth, before (G)the evil days come and the years draw near of which (H)you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
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- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Or evil
Psalm 78:4-8
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4 We will not (A)hide them from their children,
but (B)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and (C)the wonders that he has done.
5 He established (D)a testimony in (E)Jacob
and appointed a law in (F)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6 that (G)the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget (H)the works of God,
but (I)keep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be (J)like their fathers,
(K)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (L)whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Luke 15:13
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13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in (A)reckless living.
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Job 13:26
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Job 1:5
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5 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and (A)consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and (B)offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and (C)cursed[a] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
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