Exodus 22:28
You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.
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Exodus 22:28
You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.
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Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
Psalms 95:3
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
Psalms 97:7
Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
Psalms 97:9
For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.
Psalms 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;
Psalms 115:6
They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;
Psalms 115:7
They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
Psalms 115:8
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
Jeremiah 10:12
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
Jeremiah 10:13
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Jeremiah 10:14
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
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Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
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Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15:19
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Genesis 15:20
And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:21
And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 1:8
Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Exodus 34:11
Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Joshua 9:1
Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
Nehemiah 9:8
You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:
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Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 20:12
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Leviticus 19:32
Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.
Judges 5:7
Country towns were no more in Israel, ***were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
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Exodus 13:6
For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.
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Exodus 13:7
Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.
Ezekiel 21:29
Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.
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Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
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;
Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.
Exodus 18:23
If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.
Exodus 18:24
So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.
Exodus 18:25
And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
Exodus 21:22
If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
Numbers 25:5
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.
Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
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Exodus 22:1
If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.
Exodus 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Exodus 23:9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
Exodus 23:13
Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.
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Leviticus 15:14
And on the eighth day he is to take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of meeting and give them to the priest:
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Leviticus 20:27
Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.
1 Samuel 28:7
Then Saul said to his servants, Get me a woman who has control of a spirit so that I may go to her and get directions. And his servants said to him, There is such a woman at En-dor.
Acts 16:16
And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.
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Numbers 25:6
Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.
Numbers 25:7
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,
Numbers 25:8
And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.
1 Samuel 8:1
Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:2
The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;
Job 34:17
How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
Isaiah 1:26
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
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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Deuteronomy 5:11
You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.
1 Kings 2:9
But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.
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Deuteronomy 12:2
You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
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Joshua 1:16
Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
Joshua 1:17
As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will give attention to you: and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.
Joshua 1:18
Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give attention to all your words, will be put to death: only take heart and be strong.
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1 Samuel 17:43
And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.
Psalms 69:26
Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
Psalms 109:16
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Psalms 109:17
As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
Psalms 109:18
He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
Psalms 109:19
Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.
Psalms 109:28
They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.
Proverbs 26:2
As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
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2 Samuel 19:10
And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.
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Job 9:28
I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
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Psalms 22:1
To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David. My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
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Psalms 22:2
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
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Psalms 32:6
For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.
Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
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Proverbs 8:16
Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.
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Proverbs 24:22
For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?
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Ecclesiastes 10:6
The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.
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Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.
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Isaiah 36:13
Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria:
Isaiah 36:14
This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.
Isaiah 36:15
And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 36:16
Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;
Isaiah 36:17
Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
Isaiah 36:18
Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 36:19
Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?
Isaiah 36:20
Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
Isaiah 36:21
But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
Mark 15:29
And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,
Luke 23:40
But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,
1 Peter 3:9
Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.
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Psalms 135:15
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:16
They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;
Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Isaiah 41:29
Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
1 Corinthians 8:5
For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,
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Amos 2:6
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Amos 2:8
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
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Matthew 5:11
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Luke 13:31
At that time, certain Pharisees came to him and said, Go away from this place, because Herod's purpose is to put you to death.
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Exodus 23:1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
Leviticus 24:11
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Leviticus 24:16
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put 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.
Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Matthew 26:60
And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.
Matthew 26:61
But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
Matthew 26:64
Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
Acts 6:11
Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.
Acts 6:13
And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:
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Luke 23:39
And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.
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2 Samuel 16:7
And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
2 Samuel 16:13
So David and his men went on their way: and Shimei went by the hillside parallel with them, cursing and sending stones and dust at him.
Matthew 26:62
And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
Matthew 26:66
What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
John 10:33
This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.
John 18:23
Jesus said in answer, If I have said anything evil, give witness to the evil: but if I said what is true, why do you give me blows?
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Psalms 119:46
So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
Acts 4:20
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
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Romans 12:4
For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,
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1 Samuel 24:10
Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.
1 Chronicles 11:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.
Ezra 6:10
So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
Romans 13:6
For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.
1 Timothy 2:2
For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.
Titus 3:1
Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work,
Titus 3:2
To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.
1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,
1 Peter 2:14
And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.
1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
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Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
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2 Kings 6:33
While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?
Job 2:9
And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
Revelation 9:21
And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.
Revelation 16:9
And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.
Revelation 16:10
And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.
Revelation 16:11
And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.
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