Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
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Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
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Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.
Genesis 40:15
For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.
Matthew 27:26
Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.
Acts 23:2
And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth.
Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.
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Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Deuteronomy 29:18
So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
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.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Habakkuk 1:4
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
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1 Kings 21:9
And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;
1 Kings 21:10
And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
1 Kings 21:11
So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.
1 Kings 21:12
They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
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Psalms 85:13
Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
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Psalms 94:15
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
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Isaiah 26:10
Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.
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Isaiah 32:16
Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.
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Isaiah 33:5
The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
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Psalms 12:2
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
Jeremiah 5:2
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jeremiah 7:28
And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
Jeremiah 9:2
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
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Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
Zephaniah 3:2
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
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2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
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