Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
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Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
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Genesis 12:15
And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.
2 Samuel 24:15
So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:17
And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.
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Genesis 39:19
And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Proverbs 18:17
The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.
Acts 25:16
To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.
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Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 5:10
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
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Exodus 32:4
And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:5
And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.
Exodus 32:6
So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.
Numbers 25:2
For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
Judges 16:23
And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.
1 Kings 12:32
And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.
Daniel 3:2
And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.
Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
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Leviticus 19:16
Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?
1 Samuel 26:19
Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.
Psalms 141:6
When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
Proverbs 16:28
A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
Proverbs 17:4
A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Proverbs 25:23
As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.
Proverbs 26:20
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
Proverbs 26:21
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Proverbs 26:28
A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
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Joshua 1:1
Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,
2 Kings 4:43
But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.
2 Kings 6:15
Now the servant of the man of God, having got up early and gone out, saw an army with horses and carriages of war all round the town. And the servant said to him, O my master, what are we to do?
2 Chronicles 9:4
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
Ezra 8:17
And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.
Psalms 103:21
Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies; and you his servants who do his pleasure.
Psalms 104:4
He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.
Ezekiel 44:11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.
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1 Samuel 2:17
And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
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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1 Samuel 19:19
And word was given to Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.
1 Samuel 22:8
That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?
1 Samuel 22:10
And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
Psalms 52:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Psalms 52:3
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Psalms 52:4
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
Psalms 52:5
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
Psalms 54:3
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
Psalms 54:4
See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
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1 Samuel 24:1
Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
Psalms 101:3
I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.
Psalms 101:4
The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend.
Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
Proverbs 16:11
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:12
Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
Proverbs 17:7
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Proverbs 20:8
A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 25:5
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
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2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 11:16
So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.
2 Samuel 11:21
Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.
2 Samuel 20:9
And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.
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.
1 Kings 2:5
Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.
1 Kings 2:31
And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
1 Kings 2:33
So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.
1 Kings 2:34
So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
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2 Samuel 4:10
When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:
2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
2 Samuel 4:12
And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.
Acts 1:16
My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
Acts 1:17
For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.
Acts 1:18
(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
Acts 1:19
And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
Acts 1:20
For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.
Acts 1:25
To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
Acts 5:1
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,
Acts 5:2
And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
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1 Kings 15:26
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.
2 Kings 21:16
More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Kings 23:26
But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.
2 Kings 24:3
Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;
2 Kings 24:4
And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
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2 Kings 1:9
Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.
2 Kings 1:10
And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.
2 Kings 1:12
And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.
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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.
2 Kings 5:21
So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well?
2 Kings 5:22
And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?
2 Kings 5:23
And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.
2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.
2 Kings 5:25
Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.
Zephaniah 1:9
And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.
Acts 16:19
But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;
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2 Chronicles 36:12
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:13
And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14
And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:15
And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
Jeremiah 6:19
Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
Ezekiel 21:25
And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Job 34:30
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Proverbs 29:2
When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
Proverbs 29:3
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
Proverbs 29:6
In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.
Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.
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Proverbs 29:17
Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
Proverbs 29:19
A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.
Proverbs 29:21
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
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2 Chronicles 24:17
Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them.
Ecclesiastes 7:21
Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
Ecclesiastes 7:22
Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
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2 Samuel 14:30
So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.
1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
2 Kings 10:6
Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Isaiah 32:7
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
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 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.
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Psalms 69:5
O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.
Luke 22:63
And the men in whose hands Jesus was, made sport of him and gave him blows.
Luke 22:64
And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?
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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 5:8
And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
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.
Acts 5:10
And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
1 Timothy 5:22
Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
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Judges 16:17
And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.
1 Samuel 18:22
And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.
1 Samuel 22:7
Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands;
1 Kings 21:11
So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.
Psalms 52:2
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.
Micah 7:5
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
Matthew 26:60
And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.
Matthew 26:61
But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
Acts 23:14
And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
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