Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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