Ecclesiastes 7:7
The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
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Ecclesiastes 7:7
The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
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Exodus 6:9
And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.
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Exodus 23:6
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
Exodus 23:7
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Habakkuk 1:4
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.
Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?
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Leviticus 6:4
Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance,
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Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
Deuteronomy 28:65
And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
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Deuteronomy 28:34
So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.
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1 Samuel 20:3
But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.
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1 Samuel 21:13
So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin.
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2 Chronicles 10:16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.
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Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
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Job 12:6
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
Psalms 73:3
Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
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Job 18:3
Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
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Psalms 5:5
The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.
Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
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Psalms 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
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Psalms 62:11
Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
Isaiah 30:12
For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:
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Psalms 73:16
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
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Psalms 73:17
Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.
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Proverbs 6:32
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Proverbs 23:27
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Proverbs 23:28
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Proverbs 23:29
Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
Proverbs 23:30
Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31
Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
Proverbs 23:34
Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
Proverbs 23:35
They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Isaiah 28:7
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
Hosea 4:12
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
Luke 21:34
But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
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Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
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Proverbs 23:17
Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
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1 Samuel 21:14
Then Achish said to his servants, Look! the man is clearly off his head; why have you let him come before me?
Psalms 34:1
Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
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Ecclesiastes 6:8
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecclesiastes 7:4
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
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Ecclesiastes 7:28
For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
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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.
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Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
Proverbs 17:8
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
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 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Isaiah 33:5
The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
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Hosea 4:8
The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
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Habakkuk 3:7
The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
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Acts 7:25
And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.
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Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
Romans 13:13
With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
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