The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

Then the officials said to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm.”

and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Better are those slain with the sword
Than those slain with hunger;
For they pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of the field.

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
Is not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

She *said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;

Better is the little of the righteous
Than the abundance of many wicked.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
Than great treasure and turmoil with it.

Better is a little with righteousness
Than great income with injustice.

Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it
Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant
Than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

Better is a dish of vegetables where love is
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked though he be rich.

“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine,
And the fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of spices!

But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with huge stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is going on with great care and is succeeding in their hands.

The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.