Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
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Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
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Genesis 12:8
And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:3
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
Genesis 13:4
To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.
Genesis 28:10
So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.
Genesis 28:11
And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place.
Genesis 28:12
And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.
Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
Genesis 28:15
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
Genesis 28:16
And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
Genesis 28:17
And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.
Genesis 28:18
And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.
Genesis 28:19
And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.
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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:
Leviticus 22:21
And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
Numbers 6:2
Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;
Numbers 15:3
And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:
Numbers 15:8
And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord:
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.
1 Samuel 1:25
And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli.
1 Samuel 1:28
So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Psalms 61:8
So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.
Psalms 65:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song. It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.
Proverbs 7:14
I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
Jonah 1:16
Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.
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Leviticus 19:12
And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:11
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 as a sinner by the Lord.
Deuteronomy 23:18
Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.
2 Samuel 15:7
Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:
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Leviticus 27:1
And the Lord said to Moses,
Leviticus 27:9
And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.
Leviticus 27:10
It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.
Leviticus 27:13
But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.
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.
Leviticus 27:29
Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.
Leviticus 27:31
And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.
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Deuteronomy 1:33
Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.
2 Samuel 18:3
But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.
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2 Chronicles 27:5
He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third.
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2 Kings 23:3
And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.
2 Chronicles 15:13
And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
2 Chronicles 15:14
And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.
Nehemiah 5:13
And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.
Nehemiah 10:29
They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;
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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 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
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.
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?
Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
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Psalms 47:4
He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)
Hosea 12:4
He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
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Psalms 66:16
Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
Psalms 116:15
Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Psalms 116:16
O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
Psalms 118:19
Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.
Psalms 118:20
This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
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Song of Solomon 2:15
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.
Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
Isaiah 54:16
See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.
Micah 2:10
Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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.
Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 7:11
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
Mark 14:4
But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
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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Jeremiah 34:22
See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.
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Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
Haggai 1:13
Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.
Malachi 2:7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
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Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
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Acts 18:18
And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.
Acts 21:24
Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.
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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Song of Solomon 2:16
My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.
Mark 12:17
And Jesus said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. And they were full of wonder at him.
Mark 12:30
And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Acts 4:20
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
Romans 6:13
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 12:1
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
1 Corinthians 6:20
For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
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2 Corinthians 1:19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.
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2 Corinthians 1:20
For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.
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Mark 12:41
And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.
Mark 12:42
And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.
Mark 12:43
And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:
Mark 12:44
Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.
Mark 14:8
She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
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2 Corinthians 11:10
As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.
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