Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
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Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
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Genesis 34:19
And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Isaiah 22:13
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Isaiah 22:14
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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;
Luke 17:26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.
Luke 17:27
They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
Luke 17:28
In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
Luke 17:29
But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
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Exodus 3:7
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
Proverbs 28:16
The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
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 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...
Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Micah 3:7
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
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Leviticus 5:18
Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.
2 Samuel 6:7
And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.
Psalms 19:12
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Amos 2:14
And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
Hebrews 9:7
But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:
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Numbers 6:23
Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,
Numbers 6:24
May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:
Numbers 6:25
May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:
Numbers 6:26
May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.
Numbers 6:27
So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.
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Joshua 3:3
Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;
Joshua 3:4
But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
Joshua 3:5
And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.
Joshua 3:6
Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.
Joshua 3:11
See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.
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1 Kings 12:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
1 Kings 12:14
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
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2 Kings 11:1
Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom put to death.
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2 Kings 16:2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
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2 Kings 16:10
Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria; and there he saw the altar which was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a copy of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure.
Hosea 2:2
Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;
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2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 21:9
But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
Hosea 9:9
They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
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2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
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2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
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Job 39:27
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Psalms 81:14
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Psalms 81:15
The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
Psalms 81:16
I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
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Psalms 95:10
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.
Hebrews 3:7
And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
Hebrews 3:8
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
Hebrews 3:10
So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
Hebrews 3:11
And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
Hebrews 4:1
Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
Hebrews 4:2
And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.
Hebrews 4:3
For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
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Psalms 119:21
Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.
Psalms 119:118
You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
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.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:21
Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.
2 Timothy 2:18
Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.
James 5:19
My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
2 Peter 3:17
For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
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Leviticus 19:10
And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
Proverbs 14:31
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Proverbs 22:16
He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
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.
James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
James 2:3
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
James 2:4
Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
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Proverbs 19:27
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 19:28
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
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Proverbs 23:19
Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
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Proverbs 29:5
A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.
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Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
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Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Isaiah 5:13
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Jeremiah 8:7
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Matthew 15:6
There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
Matthew 23:16
A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
Matthew 23:17
You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
Matthew 23:18
And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
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Isaiah 7:2
And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.
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Isaiah 1:7
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Isaiah 5:30
And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,
Isaiah 14:25
To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
Isaiah 15:8
For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.
Isaiah 17:12
Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Hosea 11:10
They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;
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Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.
Isaiah 20:4
So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
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Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
Isaiah 22:4
For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
Jeremiah 44:7
So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
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Isaiah 25:7
And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.
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Isaiah 25:8
He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
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Isaiah 26:7
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Isaiah 26:8
We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
Isaiah 30:21
And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
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Isaiah 1:27
Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
Isaiah 2:1
The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:3
And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 4:3
And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 4:4
When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.
Isaiah 32:18
And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.
Isaiah 33:5
The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Jeremiah 23:13
And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.
Jeremiah 23:16
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
Lamentations 2:4
His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
Ezekiel 13:7
Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?
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Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
Jeremiah 18:15
For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;
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Jeremiah 38:22
See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.
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Daniel 11:20
Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.
Zechariah 10:4
From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;
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Hosea 9:14
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
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Hosea 10:5
The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.
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Amos 5:27
And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
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Isaiah 5:14
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Isaiah 65:2
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
Matthew 23:19
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
Matthew 23:20
He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
Matthew 23:21
And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.
Matthew 23:22
And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
Matthew 23:25
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
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Matthew 23:29
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
Matthew 23:30
If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew 23:31
So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
Matthew 23:32
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
Matthew 23:34
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
Matthew 23:35
So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
Matthew 23:36
Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
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Isaiah 46:4
Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
Luke 17:30
So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
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Isaiah 29:3
And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.
Isaiah 49:19
For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
Luke 19:42
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
Luke 19:43
For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,
Luke 19:44
And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
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Romans 14:21
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
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Hebrews 11:32
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
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James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
James 2:8
But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
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