Psalms 101:1
A Psalm. Of David. I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.
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Psalms 101:1
A Psalm. Of David. I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.
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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
Acts 13:12
Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 20:28
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
Romans 12:8
He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
1 Thessalonians 5:13
And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.
1 Timothy 3:4
Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;
1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
Hebrews 13:7
Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.
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Genesis 19:28
And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.
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Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Romans 5:4
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
2 Corinthians 4:18
While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.
Exodus 15:21
And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.
Judges 5:3
Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 16:9
Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.
Psalms 47:6
Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.
Psalms 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
Psalms 66:1
To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm. Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:
Psalms 66:2
Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.
Psalms 81:1
To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph. Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
Psalms 95:1
O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalms 96:1
O make a new song to the Lord; let all the earth make melody to the Lord.
Psalms 96:2
Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.
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Judges 9:23
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;
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1 Kings 9:4
As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
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.
Psalms 25:21
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Acts 13:22
And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.
Acts 13:36
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
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Esther 4:14
If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?
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Job 6:2
If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
Job 6:3
For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
Psalms 88:14
Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
Psalms 88:15
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
Psalms 88:16
The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.
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Psalms 56:10
In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.
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Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalms 77:8
Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?
Psalms 77:9
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
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Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psalms 103:18
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
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Psalms 106:15
And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.
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Psalms 31:7
I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;
Psalms 36:5
Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.
Psalms 59:16
But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
Psalms 71:23
Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.
Psalms 86:13
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
Psalms 103:1
Of David. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.
Psalms 138:1
Of David. I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.
Ephesians 5:19
Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
Revelation 5:9
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
Revelation 14:3
And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.
Revelation 15:3
And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.
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Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
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2 Samuel 23:5
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
1 Chronicles 18:14
So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Psalms 45:7
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
Psalms 72:2
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
Psalms 78:71
From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isaiah 11:2
And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
Isaiah 11:3
And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
Isaiah 11:4
But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
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 23:5
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
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.
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
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Ezekiel 11:13
Now while I was saying these things, death came to Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah. Then falling down on my face and crying out with a loud voice, I said, Ah, Lord! will you put an end to all the rest of Israel?
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Hosea 12:6
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
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Psalms 45:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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.
Proverbs 16:12
Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
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.
Amos 5:24
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Zechariah 8:4
This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.
Zechariah 12:8
In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.
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Jonah 4:4
And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
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Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
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Habakkuk 3:18
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
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Luke 1:64
And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.
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Luke 22:44
And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.
Luke 22:53
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
John 16:8
And he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of righteousness, and of being judged:
John 16:9
Of sin, because they have not faith in me;
John 16:10
Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;
John 16:11
Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
Ephesians 6:12
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
Ephesians 6:16
And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
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Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.
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.
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Psalms 57:7
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.
Psalms 71:22
I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
Romans 15:9
And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
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2 Corinthians 5:4
For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
Revelation 22:20
He who gives witness to these things says, Truly, I come quickly. Even so come, Lord Jesus.
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2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
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Hebrews 11:36
And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:
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Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
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Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Psalms 119:75
I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.
Jeremiah 10:24
O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
Hebrews 12:7
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Hebrews 12:8
But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
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Hebrews 13:17
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
Hebrews 13:24
Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.
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;
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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1 John 1:5
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
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