The Path

Proverbs 20

World English Bible · Public Domain

¹ Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

² The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

³ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

⁵ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

⁶ Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

⁷ A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

⁹ Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

¹⁰ Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

¹¹ Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

¹³ Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

¹⁵ There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

¹⁶ Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

¹⁷ Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

¹⁸ Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

²¹ An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

²² Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

²³ Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

²⁴ A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

²⁵ It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

²⁶ A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

²⁷ The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

²⁸ Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

³⁰ Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

John 20

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¹ Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

² Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

³ Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

⁴ They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

⁵ Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

⁶ Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

⁷ and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

⁸ So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

⁹ For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

¹⁰ So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

¹¹ But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,

¹² and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³ They told her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

¹⁴ When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

¹⁹ When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

²⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹ Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

²³ If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

²⁴ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.

²⁵ The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

²⁶ After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

²⁸ Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹ Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

³⁰ Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

³¹ but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.