Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
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Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
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Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Genesis 2:20
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.
Genesis 2:22
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
Exodus 32:24
Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.
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Genesis 3:7
And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
Proverbs 10:18
Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Isaiah 59:6
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Jeremiah 2:24
An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Matthew 23:25
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
Romans 7:9
And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
Revelation 3:18
If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
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Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
Genesis 12:13
Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.
Genesis 18:15
Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.
Job 2:10
And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
Matthew 26:70
But he said before them all that it was false, saying, I have no knowledge of what you say.
Matthew 26:72
And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man.
Matthew 26:74
Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.
Matthew 26:75
And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.
John 18:17
Then the girl who was the door-keeper said to Peter, Are you not one of this man's disciples? In answer he said, I am not.
John 18:25
But Simon Peter was still there warming himself by the fire. They said to him, Are you not one of his disciples? He said, No, I am not.
John 18:26
One of the servants of the high priest, a relation of him whose ear had been cut off by Peter, said, Did I not see you with him in the garden?
John 18:27
Then again Peter said, No. And straight away a cock gave its cry.
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Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.
Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:
Genesis 35:3
And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.
Genesis 35:4
Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
Genesis 35:5
So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
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Genesis 37:3
Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.
Genesis 37:23
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;
Genesis 37:31
Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,
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Genesis 37:20
Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.
Genesis 50:20
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
1 Kings 13:24
And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.
2 Kings 2:24
And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.
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Exodus 9:27
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.
Exodus 10:17
Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.
Numbers 21:7
Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
Numbers 22:34
And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.
1 Samuel 26:21
Then Saul said, I have done wrong: come back to me, David my son: I will do you no more wrong, because my life was dear to you today truly, I have been foolish and my error is very great.
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Leviticus 16:34
And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
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Leviticus 25:40
But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;
Leviticus 25:41
Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.
Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
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Numbers 5:6
Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;
2 Chronicles 30:22
And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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Numbers 14:40
And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.
Deuteronomy 1:41
Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
1 Kings 8:49
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;
1 Kings 8:50
Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;
2 Chronicles 6:24
And if your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers and requesting your grace in this house:
2 Chronicles 6:26
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
Lamentations 1:20
See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
Hosea 14:4
I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
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Joshua 7:18
Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Job 22:13
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
Job 22:14
Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.
Psalms 10:13
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
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 12:4
They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
Acts 5:5
And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.
Acts 5:6
And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
Acts 5:7
And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.
Acts 5:9
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
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1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
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.
Job 9:30
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Job 40:5
I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
Isaiah 53:6
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
Ephesians 4:27
And do not give way to the Evil One.
James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
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2 Samuel 16:5
And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.
2 Samuel 16:6
And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.
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Numbers 12:11
Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.
1 Samuel 15:25
So now, let my sin have forgiveness, and go back with me to give worship to the Lord.
2 Samuel 19:19
And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.
2 Samuel 19:20
For your servant is conscious of his sin: and so, as you see, I have come today, the first of all the sons of Joseph, for the purpose of meeting my lord the king.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.
Matthew 5:25
Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.
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2 Kings 20:13
And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which Hezekiah did not let them see.
2 Kings 20:15
And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.
Isaiah 39:4
And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.
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Judges 10:15
And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.
1 Samuel 7:2
And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping.
1 Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
Psalms 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Hosea 7:2
And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
Ephesians 4:23
And be made new in the spirit of your mind,
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.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
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Numbers 4:15
And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.
Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.
1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.
2 Chronicles 30:17
For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:18
For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone
2 Chronicles 30:19
Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.
2 Chronicles 30:20
And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.
1 Corinthians 11:2
Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.
1 Corinthians 14:40
Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.
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Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.
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Ezra 10:12
Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.
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Genesis 38:18
And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.
Genesis 38:19
Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.
Genesis 38:20
Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.
Genesis 38:21
And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.
Genesis 38:22
So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.
Genesis 38:23
And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.
2 Samuel 11:6
And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
Job 20:12
Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
Job 20:14
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
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Job 33:9
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
Job 35:3
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
Jeremiah 2:29
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Ezekiel 33:32
And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.
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.
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.
Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
Luke 18:12
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
Hebrews 1:9
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 more than on the heads of those who are with you.
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Psalms 2:11
Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,
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Psalms 2:12
For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.
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Psalms 51:2
Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
Psalms 51:6
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
Psalms 51:7
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Psalms 51:10
Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
Psalms 51:15
O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
Psalms 51:16
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
Psalms 119:106
I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 65:24
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
Daniel 9:20
And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
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Psalms 32:2
Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 51:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Psalms 51:8
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Psalms 51:9
Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
Psalms 51:11
Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.
Psalms 51:12
Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
Psalms 51:13
Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
Psalms 51:14
Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Psalms 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
Isaiah 44:22
I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
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Psalms 119:26
I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
Proverbs 17:9
He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
1 Peter 4:8
And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
3 John 1:2
My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.
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Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
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1 Samuel 15:11
It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
Psalms 21:11
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Proverbs 25:12
Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.
Proverbs 28:1
The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:2
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
Ezekiel 36:31
And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
Matthew 27:5
And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.
Luke 15:22
But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
Ephesians 5:12
For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
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Proverbs 28:24
He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
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2 Chronicles 34:27
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
Job 13:15
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Psalms 18:23
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
Psalms 138:6
Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Ezekiel 18:22
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.
Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Acts 22:16
And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.
Romans 4:5
But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
1 Corinthians 5:5
That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
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Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
Deuteronomy 4:29
But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:
Deuteronomy 4:31
Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:4
Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;
Deuteronomy 30:5
Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.
1 Kings 8:33
When your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers to you and requesting your grace in this house:
Nehemiah 1:8
Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
Isaiah 59:20
And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 4:1
If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.
Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
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2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:20
And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
Proverbs 31:31
Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Jeremiah 8:12
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
Luke 17:10
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
James 5:14
Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.
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Jeremiah 5:12
They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
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Jeremiah 18:7
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 18:8
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
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Deuteronomy 9:7
Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
Jeremiah 8:6
I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.
Ezekiel 33:14
And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
Acts 2:37
Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?
Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
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Micah 7:8
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
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Micah 7:9
I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;
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Zephaniah 2:1
Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;
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Zephaniah 2:2
Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.
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Matthew 3:7
But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Luke 3:9
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.
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Proverbs 1:8
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Ezekiel 16:42
And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.
Matthew 7:12
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Luke 18:24
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
1 Corinthians 6:10
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
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Luke 5:14
And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.
Luke 17:14
And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean.
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John 9:24
So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.
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Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 25:44
Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
John 15:22
If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
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1 Samuel 15:19
Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
2 Samuel 12:14
But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
2 Chronicles 19:3
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
2 Chronicles 32:26
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Romans 4:8
Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:7
So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
1 Peter 5:6
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
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