A sign, a direction and a decision by Gary Rose

Just a one-way sign laying on the street about eventide. Someone wrote above it:”When you lead a sinful life...”. This is a true statement, for God says...

Revelation 20 World English Bible

  ¹¹  I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.  ¹² I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.  ¹³ The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. ¹⁴ Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.  ¹⁵ If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Emphasis added)

Revelation 21 World English Bible
  ⁵  He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”   ⁶ He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.   ⁷  He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.   ⁸  But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (Emphasis added)

Revelation 22 World English Bible

  ¹²  “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.   ¹³  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.  ¹⁴  Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.  (Emphasis added) ¹⁵  Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.   ¹⁶  I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.” 

John 1 World English Bible

 ²⁹  The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said,“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (Emphasis added)

John 3 World English Bible

 ²¹ But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;  ²² even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, ²³ for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;  ²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;  ²⁵ whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for ademonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;  ²⁶ to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. (Emphasis added)

Fact is: you pay for what you do! Simple understanding of cause and effect. If you sin and do not have a remedy for it, you will be condemned, period. It doesn’t matter it you see yourself as a “good person”, or if you do good things for others- if there has ever been sin in your life (even the tiniest sin) you will have to answer for it.

God does not want your eternal destruction. He has loved all human beings, even from the very beginning. Jesus has paid the price for all who trust and obey God’s will for their lives.

The change of direction starts out simply: Believe in God and his son, Jesus. Then it gets even more personal: turn your heart, mind and actions away from what God has defined as sin. Trust in what God has told you to do about it and do those things. And continue to do them until your Earthly life is over.

And here is an example...

Acts 2 World English Bible

 ¹⁴  But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.  ¹⁵ For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.  ¹⁶ But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel: 
  ¹⁷ ‘It will be in the last days, says God,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your young men will see visions.
Your old men will dream dreams.
  ¹⁸ Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days,
I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
  ¹⁹ I will show wonders in the sky above,
and signs on the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
  ²⁰ The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
  ²¹ It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’


  ²²  “Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,  ²³ him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;  ²⁴ whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.  ²⁵ For David says concerning him, 
‘I saw the Lord always before my face,
For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
  ²⁶ Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced.
Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
  ²⁷ because you will not leave my soul in Hades,
neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
  ²⁸ You made known to me the ways of life.
You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’


  ²⁹  “Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.  ³⁰ Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,  ³¹ he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.  ³² This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.  ³³ Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.  ³⁴ For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 
‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,
  ³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’


  ³⁶  “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” 

  ³⁷  Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 

  ³⁸  Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  ³⁹ For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”  ⁴⁰ With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!” 

  ⁴¹  Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.  ⁴² They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

The news I am happy to tell you is this: You do not have to continue in a life of sin. God has made a way out of sin- Jesus. Obey him and live, its just that simple! Right now is the time to change a lifestyle of sinful attitudes and actions! Now! Just do it and don’t look back!!!

Bible Reading October 10, 11 by Gary Rose

Bible Reading October 10, 11

World English Bible

Oct. 10

Proverbs 1-4

Pro 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Pro 1:2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Pro 1:3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Pro 1:4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Pro 1:5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Pro 1:6 to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

Pro 1:7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Pro 1:8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

Pro 1:9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

Pro 1:11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Pro 1:12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Pro 1:13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

Pro 1:14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

Pro 1:15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Pro 1:16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Pro 1:17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

Pro 1:18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Pro 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Pro 1:20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Pro 1:21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Pro 1:22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Pro 1:23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Pro 1:24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Pro 1:25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

Pro 1:26 I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

Pro 1:27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Pro 1:28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Pro 1:29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

Pro 1:30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Pro 1:31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Pro 1:32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Pro 1:33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."

Pro 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

Pro 2:2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Pro 2:3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Pro 2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Pro 2:5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Pro 2:7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

Pro 2:8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

Pro 2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

Pro 2:10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Pro 2:11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Pro 2:12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

Pro 2:13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Pro 2:14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

Pro 2:15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

Pro 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

Pro 2:17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

Pro 2:18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

Pro 2:19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

Pro 2:20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Pro 2:21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Pro 2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Pro 3:1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Pro 3:2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

Pro 3:3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Pro 3:4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Pro 3:5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Pro 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Pro 3:7 Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Pro 3:8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

Pro 3:9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

Pro 3:10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Pro 3:11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

Pro 3:12 for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Pro 3:13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

Pro 3:14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Pro 3:15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

Pro 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

Pro 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Pro 3:19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

Pro 3:20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

Pro 3:21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Pro 3:22 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Pro 3:23 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble.

Pro 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

Pro 3:25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

Pro 3:26 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Pro 3:27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Pro 3:28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

Pro 3:29 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

Pro 3:30 Don't strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

Pro 3:31 Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Pro 3:32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Pro 3:33 Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Pro 3:34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Pro 3:35 The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

Pro 4:1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Pro 4:2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

Pro 4:3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

Pro 4:4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Pro 4:5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Pro 4:6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Pro 4:7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Pro 4:8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

Pro 4:9 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."

Pro 4:10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Pro 4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

Pro 4:12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Pro 4:13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Pro 4:14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

Pro 4:15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Pro 4:16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Pro 4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Pro 4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Pro 4:20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Pro 4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Pro 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

Pro 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Pro 4:24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Pro 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Pro 4:26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Pro 4:27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Oct. 11

Proverbs 5-8

Pro 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

Pro 5:2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

Pro 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

Pro 5:4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Pro 5:6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

Pro 5:7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

Pro 5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

Pro 5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

Pro 5:10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

Pro 5:11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Pro 5:12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Pro 5:13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Pro 5:14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly."

Pro 5:15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

Pro 5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Pro 5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

Pro 5:18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Pro 5:19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Pro 5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Pro 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

Pro 5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Pro 5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Pro 6:1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

Pro 6:2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

Pro 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

Pro 6:4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Pro 6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Pro 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Pro 6:7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Pro 6:8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

Pro 6:9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Pro 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Pro 6:11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Pro 6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

Pro 6:13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

Pro 6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Pro 6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Pro 6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Pro 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Pro 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Pro 6:19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Pro 6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

Pro 6:21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

Pro 6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

Pro 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Pro 6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

Pro 6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Pro 6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Pro 6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

Pro 6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

Pro 6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

Pro 6:30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

Pro 6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

Pro 6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Pro 6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

Pro 6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

Pro 6:35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Pro 7:1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Pro 7:2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Pro 7:3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Pro 7:4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

Pro 7:5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Pro 7:6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

Pro 7:7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Pro 7:8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

Pro 7:9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Pro 7:10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

Pro 7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

Pro 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

Pro 7:14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

Pro 7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

Pro 7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

Pro 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Pro 7:18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

Pro 7:19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Pro 7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

Pro 7:21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Pro 7:22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Pro 7:23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

Pro 7:24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Pro 7:25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

Pro 7:26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Pro 8:1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

Pro 8:2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

Pro 8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

Pro 8:4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

Pro 8:5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

Pro 8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

Pro 8:7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Pro 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

Pro 8:9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

Pro 8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

Pro 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

Pro 8:12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Pro 8:13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Pro 8:14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Pro 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

Pro 8:16 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.

Pro 8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Pro 8:18 With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

Pro 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

Pro 8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

Pro 8:21 That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

Pro 8:22 "Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

Pro 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Pro 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

Pro 8:26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

Pro 8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

Pro 8:28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

Pro 8:29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Pro 8:30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

Pro 8:31 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

Pro 8:32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

Pro 8:34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

Pro 8:35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Pro 8:36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

Oct. 10

Ephesians 1

Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Eph 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

Eph 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

Eph 1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Eph 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

Eph 1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Eph 1:8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Eph 1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Eph 1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

Eph 1:11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Eph 1:12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

Eph 1:13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 1:14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Eph 1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

Eph 1:16 don't cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

Eph 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Eph 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Eph 1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Eph 1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Eph 1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Oct. 11

Ephesians 2

Eph 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Eph 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

Eph 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Eph 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Eph 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Eph 2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

Eph 2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Eph 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

Eph 2:12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

Eph 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

Eph 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

Eph 2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

Eph 2:18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Eph 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Eph 2:20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Eph 2:22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.