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.
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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.
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Genesis 26:34
And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
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Exodus 20:17
Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
Numbers 16:15
Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,
Colossians 3:5
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
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 6:11
But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
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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Exodus 21:30
If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
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Numbers 35:31
Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.
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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 17:15
Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.
Deuteronomy 17:16
And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.
Deuteronomy 17:17
And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
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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.
Psalms 99:8
You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
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Judges 9:56
In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
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Judges 9:57
And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.
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1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
1 Samuel 2:29
Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?
1 Samuel 2:32
And never again will there be an old man in your family.
1 Samuel 2:33
But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.
1 Samuel 2:34
And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.
1 Samuel 12:2
And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.
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1 Samuel 3:15
And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.
1 Samuel 3:16
Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.
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1 Samuel 7:15
And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
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Judges 9:18
And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)
1 Samuel 8:6
But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,
1 Samuel 8:20
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.
1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.
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2 Samuel 15:4
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!
1 Kings 12:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
1 Kings 12:7
And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.
2 Kings 21:3
He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
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1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.
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Judges 16:5
And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.
1 Kings 15:19
Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.
Esther 3:9
If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.
Matthew 28:12
And when they had come together with those in authority, and had made their decision, they gave much money to the watchmen, saying,
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Deuteronomy 7:26
And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 7:11
Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
Joshua 7:12
For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
Joshua 7:24
Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
Joshua 7:25
And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
Proverbs 11:19
So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
Habakkuk 2:9
A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
Habakkuk 2:10
You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
Zechariah 5:4
And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
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1 Chronicles 6:33
And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
1 Chronicles 25:4
Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;
1 Chronicles 25:5
All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
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Job 11:14
If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
Job 12:6
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
Job 22:5
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Job 22:6
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
Job 22:7
You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
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Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.
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Proverbs 19:4
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
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Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Isaiah 5:9
The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
Isaiah 5:10
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
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Proverbs 21:14
By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
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Proverbs 30:15
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
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Proverbs 30:16
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
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Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
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.
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
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.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
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 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
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Lamentations 3:35
In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
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Joel 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
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.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.
Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?
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Mark 14:10
And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might give him up to them.
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Colossians 4:10
Aristarchus, my brother-prisoner, sends his love to you, and Mark, a relation of Barnabas (about whom you have been given orders: if he comes to you, be kind to him),
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Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
Titus 1:11
By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
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