Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
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Genesis 24:5
And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?
Exodus 20:7
You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
Psalms 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Jeremiah 4:2
And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.
Zechariah 8:17
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
Malachi 1:14
A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
1 Kings 8:30
Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.
1 Kings 8:34
Then give ear in heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again into the land which you gave to their fathers.
1 Kings 8:36
Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.
1 Kings 8:39
Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:
1 Kings 8:43
Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.
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;
2 Chronicles 6:39
Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.
Psalms 11:4
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
Psalms 33:13
The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
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Leviticus 26:16
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
Leviticus 26:20
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.
Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
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;
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
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Leviticus 27:13
But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.
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Leviticus 27:28
But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.
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Leviticus 27:29
Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.
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Numbers 30:6
And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;
Numbers 30:7
If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.
Numbers 30:9
But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.
Numbers 30:10
If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,
Numbers 30:11
And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.
Numbers 30:12
But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.
Numbers 30:13
Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.
Numbers 30:14
But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.
Numbers 30:15
But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
Numbers 30:16
These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.
1 Samuel 1:25
And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.
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Deuteronomy 32:3
For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
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Joshua 9:18
And the children of Israel did not put them to death, because the chiefs of the people had taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. And all the people made an outcry against the chiefs.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.
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1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.
1 Kings 3:24
Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
1 Kings 3:26
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
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1 Kings 18:26
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
1 Kings 18:27
And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.
1 Kings 18:28
So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.
1 Kings 18:29
And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.
Acts 19:34
But when they saw that he was a Jew, all of them with one voice went on crying out for about two hours, Great is Diana of Ephesus.
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1 Kings 18:42
So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.
Ezra 9:6
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Luke 6:12
And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
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Nehemiah 8:2
And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 9:3
And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.
Nehemiah 10:28
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;
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Job 11:5
But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;
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Job 22:13
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
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Job 22:14
Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.
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Job 25:6
How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
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Job 26:14
See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
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2 Chronicles 20:6
And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.
Psalms 5:1
To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.
Psalms 33:14
From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;
Psalms 113:5
Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
Psalms 113:6
Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
Isaiah 41:1
Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
Matthew 5:16
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 10:32
To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.
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Psalms 37:1
Of David. Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
Psalms 37:2
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
Psalms 37:8
Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
Proverbs 10:18
Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
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Job 31:30
(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)
Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
Psalms 106:33
For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.
Proverbs 13:3
He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.
Proverbs 17:28
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
Proverbs 29:11
A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.
Matthew 5:22
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
James 3:1
Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
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.
James 3:9
With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.
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Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
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Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
Jeremiah 11:11
So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.
Hosea 8:2
They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
Hosea 8:3
Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Matthew 26:38
Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
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Proverbs 18:13
To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
Proverbs 21:23
He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
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Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.
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Ecclesiastes 10:3
And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.
Ecclesiastes 10:14
The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.
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Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:
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Daniel 2:29
As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.
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Job 6:5
Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
Psalms 116:11
Though I said in my fear, All men are false.
Jeremiah 15:10
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
Jonah 4:1
But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2
And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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Judges 11:31
Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.
Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.
Judges 21:5
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.
1 Samuel 14:24
And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.
1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.
1 Samuel 14:29
Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.
Matthew 14:9
And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;
Acts 23:12
And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.
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Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
Isaiah 19:21
And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.
Matthew 6:6
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 12:40
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
1 Corinthians 15:2
By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
James 2:20
Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
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Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Job 22:23
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Job 22:24
And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Job 22:25
Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;
Job 22:26
For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Job 27:9
Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
Hosea 7:14
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
Matthew 20:21
And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
Acts 10:4
And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.
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Esther 5:3
Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.
Esther 5:6
And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Esther 7:2
And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
Romans 1:29
Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
Romans 1:30
Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
Romans 1:31
Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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Hebrews 11:36
And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:
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,
Hebrews 11:38
Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
1 Peter 3:15
But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;
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Revelation 6:9
And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.
Revelation 6:10
And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
Revelation 6:11
And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.
Revelation 8:1
And when the seventh stamp was undone there was quiet in heaven for about half an hour.
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