Proverbs 23

New King James Version

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^(A)Do not overwork to be rich;
^(B)Because of your own understanding, cease!
⁵^[a]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 ^(C)a^[b] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
⁷For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” ^(D)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^(E)Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰Do not remove the ancient ^[c]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
¹¹^(F)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^(G)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 ^[d]hell.

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

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

¹⁹Hear, my son, and be wise;
And guide your heart in the way.
²⁰^(K)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^(L)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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

²⁴^(N)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^(O)For a harlot is a deep pit,
And a seductress is a narrow well.
²⁸^(P)She also lies in wait as for a victim,
And increases the unfaithful among men.

²⁹^(Q)Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who ^(R)has redness of eyes?
³⁰^(S)Those who linger long at the wine,
Those who go in search of ^(T)mixed wine.
³¹Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it ^[g]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 ^[h]midst of the sea,
Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:
³⁵“They^(U) have struck me, but I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.
When shall ^(V)I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

Notas al pie

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

John 12:37-50

New King James Version

Who Has Believed Our Report?

³⁷But although He had done so many ^(A)signs before them, they did not believe in Him, ³⁸that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:

^(B)“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

³⁹Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

⁴⁰“He^(C) has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
^(D)Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”

⁴¹^(E)These things Isaiah said ^[a]when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

Walk in the Light

⁴²Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but ^(F)because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; ⁴³^(G)for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

⁴⁴Then Jesus cried out and said, ^(H)“He who believes in Me, ^(I)believes not in Me ^(J)but in Him who sent Me. ⁴⁵And ^(K)he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. ⁴⁶^(L)I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. ⁴⁷And if anyone hears My words and does not ^[b]believe, ^(M)I do not judge him; for ^(N)I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸^(O)He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—^(P)the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹For ^(Q)I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, ^(R)what I should say and what I should speak. ⁵⁰And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I ^(S)speak.”

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Notas al pie

John 12:41 NU because
John 12:47 NU keep them

John 13:1-17

New King James Version

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

13 Now ^(A)before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that ^(B)His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He ^(C)loved them to the end.

²And ^[a]supper being ended, ^(D)the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, ³Jesus, knowing ^(E)that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He ^(F)had come from God and ^(G)was going to God, ⁴^(H)rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. ⁵After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, ^(I)“Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you ^(J)do not understand now, ^(K)but you will know after this.”

⁸Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, ^(L)“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

¹⁰Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^(M)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹For ^(N)He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹²So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you ^[b]know what I have done to you? ¹³^(O)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. ¹⁴^(P)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(Q)you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵For ^(R)I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶^(S)Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷^(T)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.