Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
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Genesis 23:18
Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.
Genesis 34:24
Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;
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Exodus 5:6
The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,
Joshua 24:4
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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Exodus 5:10
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
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Exodus 21:30
If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
Deuteronomy 22:18
Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;
Deuteronomy 22:19
They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.
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Exodus 22:29
Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.
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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.
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Numbers 31:14
And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
Numbers 31:48
Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,
1 Samuel 17:18
And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.
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Deuteronomy 16:1
Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.
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Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
2 Corinthians 9:6
But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:
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Exodus 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:
Exodus 23:3
But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 17:5
Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
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.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
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.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
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Deuteronomy 21:1
If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:
Deuteronomy 21:3
And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:4
And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:
Deuteronomy 21:5
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:
Deuteronomy 21:6
And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,
Deuteronomy 21:7
Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.
Deuteronomy 21:9
So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 22:15
Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:
Proverbs 1:21
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
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Deuteronomy 23:7
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
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Deuteronomy 29:10
You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 31:28
Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.
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Joshua 1:11
Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Joshua 3:3
Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;
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Joshua 3:2
And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,
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Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
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Judges 8:23
But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.
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Ruth 3:11
And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue.
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
1 Kings 3:10
Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
1 Kings 3:11
And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;
1 Kings 3:12
I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
Proverbs 28:2
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
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1 Kings 8:37
If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:
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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.
1 Kings 21:13
And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
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2 Kings 7:1
Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.
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1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 26:30
Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.
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1 Chronicles 26:31
Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.
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2 Chronicles 19:11
And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.
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2 Chronicles 26:11
In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
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Nehemiah 7:2
I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.
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Job 29:18
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Job 29:19
My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,
Job 29:20
My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.
Job 29:21
Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.
Job 29:22
After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
Job 29:23
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
Job 29:24
I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
Job 29:25
I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...
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Proverbs 12:4
A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.
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Isaiah 3:2
The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;
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Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
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Deuteronomy 1:14
And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Matthew 5:22
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?
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Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Lamentations 2:10
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
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Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;
Deuteronomy 24:18
But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
1 Samuel 12:4
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Psalms 26:9
Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
Psalms 94:20
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
Psalms 94:21
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
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.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Amos 5:15
Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.
Acts 20:33
I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.
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Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.
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.
Psalms 58:2
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
Proverbs 31:9
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
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.
Ezekiel 18:8
And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,
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.
Zechariah 7:9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
1 Timothy 5:21
I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.
James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
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2 Samuel 8:15
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
Psalms 72:1
Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
Psalms 72:2
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
Psalms 72:3
May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
Zechariah 9:9
Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.
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Exodus 28:30
And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all times.
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;
Deuteronomy 33:9
Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
2 Chronicles 17:8
And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.
Zechariah 13:3
And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.
Malachi 2:4
And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:5
My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.
Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
Acts 6:4
Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
Psalms 10:14
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
Psalms 10:18
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Proverbs 23:11
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Jeremiah 49:11
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
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2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.
Psalms 69:12
I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.
Matthew 27:12
But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.
Matthew 27:13
Then says Pilate to him, Do you give no attention to what their witnesses say against you?
Matthew 27:20
Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.
Matthew 27:41
In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,
Matthew 27:42
A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.
Matthew 27:62
Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,
Matthew 27:63
Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.
Luke 23:2
And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:
Acts 4:27
For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
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Luke 9:56
And they went to another small town.
Luke 12:13
And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.
Luke 12:14
But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?
John 3:17
God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.
John 8:11
And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.
John 18:36
Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.
1 Corinthians 5:12
For it is no business of mine to be judging those who are outside; but it is yours to be judging those who are among you;
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Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
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Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Luke 20:9
And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.
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John 18:31
Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law. But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death.
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Romans 13:1
Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.
Romans 13:2
For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves.
Romans 13:5
So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.
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.
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Hebrews 9:15
And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.
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1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
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