Why then have you despised the word of Adonai by doing such evil in My eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him you have slain with the sword of the children of Ammon
Proverbs 14:2 - Tree of Life Version The one who walks uprightly fears Adonai, but one devious in his ways despises Him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who walks in uprightness reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, but he who is contrary and devious in his ways despises Him. American Standard Version (1901) He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. Common English Bible Those who walk with integrity fear the LORD, but those who take a crooked path despise him. Catholic Public Domain Version One who walks on a virtuous journey, and who fears God, is despised by him who advances along a disreputable way. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way. |
Why then have you despised the word of Adonai by doing such evil in My eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him you have slain with the sword of the children of Ammon
Solomon said: “You have shown my father Your servant David great lovingkindness, as he walked before You in truth, righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You. Indeed, You have kept this great lovingkindness for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
Up to this day, they follow their former customs. Nor do they fear Adonai, or follow the statutes, the ordinances, the Torah or the mitzvot that Adonai commanded the children of Jacob—whom He had renamed Israel.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. Now that man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
“I have become a laughingstock to my friend, though I called on God and He answered— a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
And He said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord —that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.”’
Halleluyah! Happy is the man who fears Adonai, who delights greatly in His mitzvot.
One who despises his neighbor lacks sense, but one with discernment remains silent.
The highway of the upright avoids evil. He who guards his way protects his life.
By mercy and truth is iniquity atoned, and by the fear of Adonai one avoids evil.
Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.
Better the poor who walks in his integrity than the rich whose ways are crooked.
A final word, when all has been heard: Fear God and keep His mitzvot! For this applies to all mankind.
The one who listens to you hears Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me, and the one who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and sneering at Yeshua.
And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well-spoken of by all the Jewish people, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear a message from you.”
but in every nation the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.
So Messiah’s community throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had shalom and was built up. Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, it kept multiplying.