090711 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!

"How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!  The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.  Better it is to be of …

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071911 In all this did not Job sin with his lips

"So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.  And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.  Then said his wife unto him, 'Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse …

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060111 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren…

...And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, 'Because I bare him with sorrow.'   And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve …

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053011 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD…

...To walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.' 'And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the …

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051611 Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people

"And Solomon said, 'Thou hast shewed unto Thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it …

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050511 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?

"And he said to David, 'Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.  And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.  For if a …

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022611 …Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God

"When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of …

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021311 Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still

"I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'  And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by …

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