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;
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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;
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Genesis 39:6
And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.
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Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
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;
Exodus 3:9
For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
Leviticus 25:43
Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
Leviticus 25:46
And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25:53
And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
Ephesians 6:9
And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
James 5:4
See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
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Exodus 5:13
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
Exodus 5:15
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
Exodus 5:16
They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.
Exodus 5:18
Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
Job 39:7
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
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Exodus 20:7
You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
Leviticus 26:16
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
Leviticus 26:20
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.
Psalms 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
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.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
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Exodus 21:20
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
Exodus 21:26
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
Exodus 21:27
Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
Deuteronomy 19:21
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Proverbs 29:19
A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.
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Exodus 23:12
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
Deuteronomy 5:13
On six days do all your work:
Deuteronomy 5:14
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.
Deuteronomy 5:15
And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.
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Exodus 30:10
And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.
Leviticus 16:30
For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.
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Leviticus 23:34
Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.
Deuteronomy 15:1
At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.
Deuteronomy 15:2
This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.
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Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Nehemiah 5:11
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.
Nehemiah 10:31
And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.
Ezekiel 45:9
This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.
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Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.
1 Kings 21:28
Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1 Kings 21:29
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
Esther 4:3
And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.
Jeremiah 36:9
Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Joel 2:15
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Jonah 3:7
And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
Jonah 3:8
And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
Acts 9:9
And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.
Acts 13:2
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
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Job 21:21
For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
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Job 22:17
Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?
Job 35:3
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Psalms 73:8
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
Psalms 73:9
Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
Psalms 73:10
For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.
Psalms 73:11
And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?
Psalms 73:12
Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.
Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.
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Job 32:3
And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
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Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
Isaiah 5:11
Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
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Psalms 144:3
Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
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Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Proverbs 1:26
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Proverbs 1:27
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Proverbs 5:10
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Isaiah 32:12
Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;
Mark 6:18
For John said to Herod, It is wrong for you to have your brother's wife.
Mark 6:19
And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;
Mark 6:20
For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.
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Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
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Isaiah 1:2
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
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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.
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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 3:12
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.
Isaiah 9:3
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
Isaiah 14:2
And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.
Isaiah 45:14
The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.
Isaiah 49:24
Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Isaiah 60:17
In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
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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.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
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 5:2
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
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.
Romans 2:20
A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
James 2:20
Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
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Isaiah 37:1
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
Isaiah 37:2
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
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Psalms 10:1
Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
Psalms 69:11
When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Isaiah 45:19
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
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.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
Isaiah 57:19
I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
Amos 5:4
For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
Luke 13:24
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
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Ezra 8:22
For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.
Psalms 69:32
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Jeremiah 5:19
And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
Joel 1:8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Luke 13:5
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
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Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
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 36:7
It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.
Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
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Jeremiah 34:9
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
Jeremiah 34:10
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
Jeremiah 34:11
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.
Jeremiah 34:12
For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jeremiah 34:17
And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Matthew 18:29
So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you.
Matthew 18:30
And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.
Matthew 18:31
So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.
Matthew 18:32
Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
Matthew 18:33
Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?
Matthew 18:34
And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
Matthew 18:35
So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.
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Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
Jeremiah 42:3
That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.
Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Ezekiel 33:30
And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:33
And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.
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Jeremiah 31:8
See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 50:5
They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
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Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
Jeremiah 44:18
But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.
Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:26
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.
Ezekiel 18:29
But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?
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.
Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;
Luke 19:21
Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
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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.
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.
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.
John 18:28
So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
Ezekiel 34:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Ezekiel 34:4
You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Matthew 20:11
And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
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Daniel 4:24
This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:
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Zechariah 5:5
And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.
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Zechariah 5:7
And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.
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Deuteronomy 29:24
Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
1 Chronicles 28:8
So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Psalms 74:1
Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
Psalms 74:11
Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
Proverbs 19:3
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
Isaiah 53:7
Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.
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.
Lamentations 3:34
In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
Acts 27:9
And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,
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Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Jeremiah 8:12
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Malachi 1:7
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 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Malachi 2:14
But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
Matthew 25:24
And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:
Luke 19:22
He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
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Isaiah 2:7
And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
Matthew 7:12
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
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?
Luke 13:3
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.
John 15:8
Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
Romans 6:6
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.
Colossians 3:5
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
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Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Isaiah 29:1
Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:
Jeremiah 7:21
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
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.
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.
James 1:7
Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;
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Matthew 9:16
And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.
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.
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
Mark 2:21
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.
Mark 2:22
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
Luke 5:33
And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.
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Matthew 15:22
And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
Matthew 15:23
But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.
Matthew 15:25
But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.
Matthew 15:26
And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
Matthew 15:27
But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.
Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
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Matthew 7:15
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
James 2:14
What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
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Psalms 80:4
O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
Psalms 85:5
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Matthew 15:24
But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
Luke 18:2
Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:
Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
Luke 18:4
And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,
Luke 18:5
Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.
Luke 18:6
And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.
Luke 18:7
And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
Luke 18:8
I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?
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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.
John 8:21
Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.
John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.
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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.
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 6:2
When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
Luke 18:20
You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.
Luke 18:21
And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Philippians 3:4
Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:
Philippians 3:5
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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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.
Psalms 17:1
A Prayer. Of David. Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
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.
Luke 12:1
At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.
Romans 2:22
You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?
Romans 2:23
You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Romans 2:24
For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
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Proverbs 11:18
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Luke 18:22
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
Romans 9:31
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;
Romans 9:33
As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
1 Corinthians 1:29
So that no flesh might have glory before God.
Galatians 1:14
And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.
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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:
1 Corinthians 15:2
By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
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1 Corinthians 11:17
But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 11:20
But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
1 Corinthians 11:34
If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?
1 Corinthians 14:26
What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.
Hebrews 10:25
Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
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1 Samuel 15:14
And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?
Job 33:9
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Proverbs 30:20
This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
Isaiah 65:5
Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Jeremiah 2:23
How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
Jeremiah 2:35
And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Luke 18:10
Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
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Isaiah 51:13
And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
Jeremiah 2:29
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
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