Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,
He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.
I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.
The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
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