Ezekiel 34:18
Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?
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Ezekiel 34:18
Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?
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Ezekiel 34:17
And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.
Ezekiel 34:18
Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?
Ezekiel 34:19
And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.
Ezekiel 34:20
For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.
Ezekiel 34:21
Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;
Ezekiel 34:22
I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.
Matthew 25:32
And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
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Numbers 16:9
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
Genesis 30:15
But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.
Isaiah 7:13
And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
Numbers 16:13
Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?
Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,
Ezekiel 16:47
Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.
2 Samuel 7:19
And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!
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Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
Matthew 23:13
But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
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Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 34:8
By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
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Proverbs 11:26
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
Proverbs 24:11
Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Hosea 10:1
Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Matthew 25:42
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:
Matthew 25:43
I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.
Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,
Matthew 27:4
Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
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Proverbs 25:26
Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.
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