Sunday, November 4, 2012

Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

Baclayon Church altar


Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

They are a garland to grace your head
    and a chain to adorn your neck.

My son, if sinful men entice you,
    do not give in to them.

If they say, “Come along with us;
    let’s lie in wait for innocent blood,
    let’s ambush some harmless soul;
let’s swallow them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
we will get all sorts of valuable things
    and fill our houses with plunder;
cast lots with us;
    we will all share the loot”—
my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot on their paths;
for their feet rush into evil,
    they are swift to shed blood.

How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!

These men lie in wait for their own blood;
    they ambush only themselves!

Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
    it takes away the life of those who get it.


                                      Proverbs 1:8-19


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