Psalms 34:12
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
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Psalms 34:12
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
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Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.
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Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
1 Samuel 12:24
Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.
1 Kings 18:3
And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;
1 Kings 18:4
For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:12
And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.
Psalms 36:1
To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David. The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.
Psalms 115:13
He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
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Deuteronomy 5:20
Do not give false witness against your neighbour;
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Deuteronomy 5:33
Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
Deuteronomy 6:18
And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 8:1
Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
Deuteronomy 17:20
So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:15
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 30:16
In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
Psalms 81:15
The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
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Deuteronomy 32:9
For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
Psalms 94:5
Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
Psalms 94:14
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Jeremiah 10:16
The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
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Deuteronomy 33:28
And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.
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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.
1 Kings 12:8
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:
Job 8:8
Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
Job 8:10
Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?
Job 12:12
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
Job 32:7
I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.
Proverbs 1:1
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
Proverbs 1:2
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Proverbs 1:3
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
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Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
Psalms 4:7
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
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Job 9:25
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Job 10:20
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
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Job 15:32
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
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Job 21:20
Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
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Psalms 34:1
Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.
Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
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Psalms 34:17
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 34:18
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
Psalms 34:19
Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.
Psalms 34:20
He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalms 34:21
Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.
Psalms 34:22
The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.
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Psalms 38:19
But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.
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Psalms 45:11
So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.
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Psalms 133:3
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
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Proverbs 16:31
The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
Hebrews 5:12
And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
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Ecclesiastes 2:3
I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
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Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
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Psalms 22:26
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
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Ezekiel 18:9
And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.
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Daniel 2:4
Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.
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Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
Matthew 7:7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
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Matthew 14:13
Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.
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Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 31:12
Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;
Job 28:27
Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.
Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
Acts 10:22
And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.
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Isaiah 48:22
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Romans 3:10
As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
Romans 3:12
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
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:
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
Romans 3:15
Their feet are quick in running after blood;
Romans 3:16
Destruction and trouble are in their ways;
Romans 3:17
And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
Romans 3:18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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Isaiah 63:8
For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
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.
Zechariah 8:17
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
Ephesians 4:25
And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
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Psalms 128:6
May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.
Proverbs 1:8
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 4:10
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:2
Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),
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