Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
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Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
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Genesis 4:4
And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
Numbers 16:15
Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.
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Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.
Genesis 34:24
Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
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Genesis 28:16
And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
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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.
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Exodus 20:24
Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.
Exodus 27:1
And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
Exodus 27:2
Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
Exodus 27:3
And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.
Exodus 27:4
And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
Exodus 27:5
And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
Exodus 27:6
And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
Exodus 27:7
And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
Exodus 27:8
The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
Matthew 23:19
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
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Leviticus 11:10
All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
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Leviticus 11:11
They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.
Leviticus 11:41
Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.
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Numbers 16:3
They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?
Numbers 16:6
So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes;
Numbers 16:7
And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.
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Numbers 23:14
So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
Numbers 23:30
And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
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Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.
Joshua 6:5
And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.
1 Samuel 4:3
And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.
1 Samuel 14:18
And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.
2 Samuel 15:25
And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:
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Deuteronomy 17:3
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
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Deuteronomy 20:10
When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.
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Joshua 6:4
And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.
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1 Samuel 13:12
I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.
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1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.
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1 Samuel 15:24
And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
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1 Samuel 20:24
So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.
Proverbs 4:17
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
Proverbs 15:17
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Proverbs 17:1
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
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1 Kings 21:9
And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;
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1 Kings 21:12
They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
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2 Kings 7:17
And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.
2 Kings 7:18
So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.
2 Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
2 Kings 7:20
And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.
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2 Chronicles 6:14
And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;
2 Chronicles 6:15
For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.
2 Chronicles 6:16
So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.
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2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
1 Corinthians 11:22
What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
Hebrews 12:28
If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is an all-burning fire.
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Deuteronomy 26:14
No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.
Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Nehemiah 8:11
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
Nehemiah 8:12
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
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Psalms 10:8
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
Psalms 10:9
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Psalms 10:10
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Hosea 7:6
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
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Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Psalms 10:12
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
Psalms 10:13
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
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2 Chronicles 4:9
Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 65:4
Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
Psalms 92:13
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.
Isaiah 61:3
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.
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2 Chronicles 35:9
And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.
Psalms 78:17
And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;
Jeremiah 7:13
And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:
Jeremiah 7:14
For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:15
And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 7:25
From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:
Jeremiah 7:26
But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 7:28
And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
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Psalms 84:2
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.
Psalms 84:8
O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
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Psalms 94:20
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
1 John 1:5
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
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Psalms 118:19
Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.
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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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Genesis 16:13
And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
Exodus 14:15
And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of Israel the order to go forward.
Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Ezra 9:2
For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
Psalms 119:7
I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.
Song of Solomon 2:2
As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
Isaiah 63:9
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
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.
Matthew 7:6
Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
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Proverbs 7:14
I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
Proverbs 7:15
So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
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Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a heart of pride, ***of the evil-doer is sin.
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
Haggai 1:5
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
Haggai 1:7
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:8
Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
Haggai 1:9
You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.
Haggai 1:10
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
Haggai 1:11
And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
Haggai 2:14
Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.
Jude 1:23
And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.
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Isaiah 2:22
Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
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Isaiah 7:22
And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.
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Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Psalms 90:5
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Psalms 90:6
In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Psalms 103:16
The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
Isaiah 37:27
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
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Isaiah 38:11
I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
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Isaiah 29:1
Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:
Isaiah 40:10
See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Jeremiah 11:15
About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
Matthew 8:4
And Jesus said to him, See that you say nothing about this to anyone; but go and let the priest see you and make the offering which was ordered by Moses, for a witness to them.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
1 Corinthians 13:3
And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
Hebrews 13:21
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
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Isaiah 26:6
It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
Isaiah 41:25
I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.
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Isaiah 56:3
And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.
John 12:20
Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:
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Psalms 10:3
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Psalms 49:18
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Matthew 9:13
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
1 Peter 3:4
But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
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Jeremiah 12:7
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Jeremiah 12:8
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
Jeremiah 12:9
My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
Zephaniah 2:1
Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;
Zechariah 11:8
And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
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Job 27:9
Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
Job 35:13
But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
Psalms 109:7
When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.
Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
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.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 20:3
Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
John 9:31
We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.
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Jeremiah 18:2
Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.
Zechariah 11:13
And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
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Exodus 10:3
Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jeremiah 8:4
Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?
Jeremiah 8:5
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
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.
Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Amos 4:6
But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Luke 15:15
And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
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Jeremiah 31:31
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:
Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Ezekiel 20:37
And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:
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Ezekiel 20:31
And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.
Ezekiel 23:29
And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.
Ezekiel 23:37
For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.
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Ezekiel 26:11
Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.
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Ezekiel 34:18
Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?
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Daniel 8:8
And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.
Daniel 8:9
And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.
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2 Kings 10:16
And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.
Isaiah 48:1
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Isaiah 50:1
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
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 6:1
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 7:8
For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
Titus 1:15
To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.
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.
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Joel 1:15
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
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Micah 5:12
I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
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Zephaniah 1:7
Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.
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Leviticus 22:20
But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing 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:
Malachi 1:1
The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi 1:7
You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
Malachi 1:8
And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 1:9
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
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 1:14
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.
Malachi 2:12
The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Isaiah 1:24
For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
Isaiah 43:22
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
Isaiah 43:24
You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
Isaiah 65:4
Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
Malachi 2:17
You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
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?
Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
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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?
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Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.
Matthew 3:15
But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.
Matthew 5:17
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Matthew 7:22
A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?
Matthew 7:23
And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.
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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.
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 58:3
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;
Isaiah 58:5
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Matthew 9:17
And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.
Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;
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.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
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Luke 3:7
So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
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Psalms 73:1
Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.
Hosea 1:6
And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.
Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.
Hosea 1:8
Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.
Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
John 8:37
I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.
John 8:39
In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Romans 9:7
And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.
Revelation 2:9
I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.
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John 7:34
You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.
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John 8:38
I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.
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John 13:18
I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.
John 13:26
This was the answer Jesus gave: It is the one to whom I will give this bit of bread after I have put it in the vessel. Then he took the bit of bread, put it into the vessel, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27
And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.
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Genesis 25:32
And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?
Ecclesiastes 6:8
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Ecclesiastes 6:11
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
Romans 2:25
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
Romans 2:26
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
Romans 2:27
And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.
Romans 3:1
How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
Galatians 6:15
For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
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Romans 14:6
He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
Romans 14:7
For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.
Romans 14:8
As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.
Romans 14:9
And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:18
And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
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.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
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Job 36:13
Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
2 Timothy 2:26
And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
Revelation 2:21
And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.
Revelation 2:22
See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.
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Hebrews 10:1
For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
Hebrews 10:17
And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
Hebrews 10:18
Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
Revelation 11:2
But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.
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Leviticus 9:3
And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;
Psalms 40:7
Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,
Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hebrews 8:13
When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
Hebrews 9:9
And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:
Hebrews 10:4
Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
Hebrews 10:6
You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
Hebrews 10:8
After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
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Deuteronomy 33:19
They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.
Job 35:7
If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
Psalms 4:5
Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.
Psalms 24:3
Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?
Psalms 50:13
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
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 40:16
And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
Isaiah 66:23
And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.
Hebrews 13:15
Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.
Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
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1 John 1:6
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
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