871 verses about Soul

Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent; For if you draw near it will bite you: The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, Slaying the souls of men.

The knowledge of a wise man will be made to abound as a flood; And his counsel as a fountain of life.

When the ungodly curses Satan, He curses his own soul.

A whisperer defiles his own soul, And will be hated wherever he sojourneth.

They that eat me will yet be hungry; And those who drink me will yet be thirsty.

A silent woman is a gift of the Lord; And there is nothing so much worth as a well-instructed soul.

A shamefast woman is grace upon grace; And there is no price worthy of a continent soul.

Give not over your soul to sorrow; And afflict not yourself in your own counsel.

Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein.

Wakefulness that comes of riches consumes the flesh, And the anxiety thereof puts away sleep.

Wine drunk in season and to satisfy Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:

In every work trust your own soul; For this is the keeping of the commandments.

Blessed is the soul of him that fears the Lord: To whom does he give heed? and who is his stay?

He raises up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes: He gives healing, life, and blessing.

Forget not a friend in your soul; And be not unmindful of him in your riches.

Let your soul beware of a counsellor, And know you before what is his interest (For he will take counsel for himself); Lest he cast the lot upon you,

But rather be continually with a godly man, Whom you shall have known to be a keeper of the commandments, Who in his soul is as your own soul, And who will grieve with you, if you shall miscarry.

For a man’s soul is sometime wont to bring him tidings, More than seven watchmen that sit on high on a watch-tower.

There is one that is shrewd and the instructor of many, And yet is unprofitable to his own soul.

There is one that is wise to his own soul; And the fruits of his understanding are trustworthy in the mouth.

My son, prove your soul in your life, And see what is evil for it, and give not that to it.

For all things are not profitable for all men, Neither has every soul pleasure in every thing.

Give not your heart to sorrow: Put it away, remembering the last end:

Not so he that has applied his soul, And meditateth in the law of the Most High; He will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, And will be occupied in prophecies.

A man that looks to the table of another, His life is not to be counted for a life; He will pollute his soul with another man’s meats: But a man wise and well-instructed will beware thereof.

The mourning of men is about their bodies: But the name of sinners being evil shall be blotted out.

Your soul covered the earth, And you filled it with dark parables.

With two nations is my soul vexed, And the third is no nation:

The slander of an unrighteous tongue to the king. My soul drew near even to death, And my life was near to the grave beneath.

My soul has wrestled in her, And in my doing I was exact: I spread forth my hands to the heaven above, And bewailed my ignorances of her.

I set my soul aright to her, And in pureness I found her. I got me a heart joined with her from the beginning: Therefore shall I not be forsaken.

My inward part also was troubled to seek her: Therefore I have gotten a good possession.

Say, wherefore are you⌃ lacking in these things, And your souls are very thirsty?

Put your neck under the yoke, And let your soul receive instruction: She is hard at hand to find.

May your soul rejoice in his mercy, And may you⌃ not be put to shame in praising him.

open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:

but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.

O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.

so they perished, because they had no wisdom, they perished through their own foolishness.

For my angel is with you, and I myself do care for your souls.

O you⌃ spirits and souls of the righteous, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever.

and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;

and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;

And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul.

and when he was at the point to die with the stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.

insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God;

So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.

(And if he did it looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who die in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.

Ezra 10:6, etc. Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib,

They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.

In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (the same is Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:

And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,

and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.

For it came to pass when I came hither, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.

Did not the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long are we here? when comes the fruit of the threshing time of our reward?

Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not. And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:

Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again,

For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.

And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed to them.

For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.

And I answered and said, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, show this also to your servant, whether after death, even now when every one of us gives up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come, in which you shall renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented forthwith.

For concerning death the teaching is: When the determinate sentence has gone forth from the Most High that a man should die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, it adores the glory of the Most High first of all.

these spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways.

The second way, because they can’t now make a good returning that they may live.

Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible vessel.

The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaits them.

This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth is announcer to them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.

And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?

And I answered and said, Swallow down understanding then, O my soul, and let my heart devour wisdom.

For you are alone, and we all one workmanship of your hands, like as you have said.

And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.

For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:

What aileth you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?

Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?

strengthen me then, and show me your servant the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that you may perfectly comfort my soul.

Therefore if so be that you⌃ will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you⌃ shall be kept alive, and after death you⌃ shall obtain mercy.

Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.

And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.

As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.

And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,

For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.

but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.

But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul.

Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.

Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.

My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death.

for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning.

they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us.

For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.

And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.

But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying