1 Kings 12:11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
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1 Kings 12:11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
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1 Kings 12:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
2 Kings 21:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
2 Kings 21:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
Genesis 4:8
And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
Genesis 25:33
And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.
Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
2 Samuel 15:6
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
1 Kings 13:33
After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.
1 Kings 13:34
And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
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Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
Ezekiel 2:6
And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
Revelation 9:3
And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
Revelation 9:5
And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
Revelation 9:10
And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.
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Proverbs 13:10
The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.
James 3:16
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
James 4:1
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
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Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
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