When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to enquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.
Mark 7:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Coveting (a greedy desire to have more wealth), dangerous and destructive wickedness, deceit; unrestrained (indecent) conduct; an evil eye (envy), slander (evil speaking, malicious misrepresentation, abusiveness), pride (the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man), foolishness (folly, lack of sense, recklessness, thoughtlessness). American Standard Version (1901) covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: Common English Bible adultery, greed, evil actions, deceit, unrestrained immorality, envy, insults, arrogance, and foolishness. Catholic Public Domain Version thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. |
When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to enquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.
A shrewd person conceals knowledge, but a foolish heart publicises stupidity.
Foolishness is bound to the heart of a youth; a rod of discipline will separate it from him.
Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, , and don’t desire his delicacies,
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.
A greedy one is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.
I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.
transgression and deception against the Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous because I’m generous? ” ,
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!
For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, “The seventh year, the year of cancelling debts, is near,” and you are stingy towards your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.
The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility towards one another, because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. ,