Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
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Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
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Genesis 6:5
And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
Job 15:16
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Psalms 10:4
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Psalms 53:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Jeremiah 13:23
Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Ezekiel 38:10
This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
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Genesis 27:40
By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.
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Genesis 29:23
And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.
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Genesis 31:27
Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?
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Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
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 1:22
And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.
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.
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Exodus 21:2
If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
Leviticus 25:10
And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.
Deuteronomy 15:12
If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.
Jeremiah 34:8
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;
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.
Micah 2:13
The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.
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Deuteronomy 12:8
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
Judges 18:7
Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
Proverbs 3:5
Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
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Judges 16:2
And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.
1 Samuel 25:29
And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Mark 15:1
And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.
John 18:3
So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.
John 19:11
Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.
Acts 4:5
And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem;
Acts 9:24
But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:
Acts 23:15
So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.
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Judges 18:25
And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.
1 Samuel 2:16
And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.
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.
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.
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
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.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
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1 Samuel 19:12
So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.
1 Samuel 19:13
Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.
1 Samuel 19:14
And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.
1 Samuel 19:15
And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.
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2 Samuel 11:14
Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.
2 Samuel 11:15
And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death.
2 Samuel 11:16
So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.
2 Samuel 11:17
And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.
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2 Samuel 13:3
But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab was a very wise man.
2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:23
In those days the opinions of Ahithophel were valued as highly as if through him a man might get direction from God; so were they valued by David as much as by Absalom.
Isaiah 28:11
No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
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.
Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
1 Corinthians 14:20
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
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1 Kings 12:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
Job 20:20
There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
Job 20:22
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Ezekiel 46:18
And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.
Amos 4:2
The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.
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1 Kings 21:15
Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.
Nehemiah 5:10
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Isaiah 3:11
Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
Jeremiah 5:27
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Micah 6:10
Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
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2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
2 Kings 5:21
So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well?
2 Kings 5:22
And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?
2 Kings 5:23
And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.
2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.
2 Kings 5:25
Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.
2 Kings 5:26
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
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1 Kings 19:15
And the Lord said to him, Go back on your way through the waste land to Damascus; and when you come there, put the holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram;
2 Kings 8:10
And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.
2 Kings 8:13
And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.
2 Kings 8:15
Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.
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Ezra 4:23
Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.
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Esther 3:8
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Esther 5:14
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.
Esther 6:4
Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.
Esther 7:8
Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.
Esther 8:3
Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.
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Job 24:6
They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
Job 24:7
They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Job 24:10
Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
Job 24:11
Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
Job 24:12
From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
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Psalms 5:4
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
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Psalms 7:11
God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.
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Psalms 7:12
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Jeremiah 22:13
A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
Ezekiel 33:26
You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?
Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
Matthew 24:12
And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
James 5:2
Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
James 5:6
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
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Psalms 16:7
I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.
Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Psalms 63:6
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
Psalms 149:5
Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.
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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 24:2
The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Psalms 10:14
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
Psalms 55:9
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Psalms 109:16
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Ezekiel 18:12
Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,
Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.
Amos 3:10
For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.
Habakkuk 3:14
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
Luke 3:13
And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.
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Psalms 59:6
They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
Psalms 59:14
And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
Psalms 59:15
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
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Job 15:35
Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
Psalms 7:14
That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
Psalms 10:10
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Psalms 11:2
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
Psalms 62:3
How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?
Psalms 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Psalms 64:6
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
Nahum 1:11
One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.
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2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
Job 7:18
And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?
Psalms 37:6
And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.
Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
Psalms 90:14
In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
Psalms 143:8
Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.
Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Hosea 6:5
So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
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Proverbs 4:18
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
Ephesians 5:6
Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.
Ephesians 5:7
Have no part with such men;
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
Ephesians 5:9
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
Ephesians 5:10
Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
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Proverbs 8:21
So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.
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Proverbs 14:20
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
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Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
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Proverbs 10:15
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.
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Isaiah 57:7
You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
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Isaiah 57:8
And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it
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1 Samuel 8:11
And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
1 Samuel 8:13
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:18
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
1 Kings 4:7
And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
Job 20:23
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
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Isaiah 65:12
Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
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Proverbs 14:2
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
Isaiah 56:9
All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.
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 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;
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
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 34:2
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?
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
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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Isaiah 5:20
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Zephaniah 2:5
Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.
Matthew 11:21
Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.
Matthew 18:7
A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
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Psalms 35:20
For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.
Psalms 55:20
He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
Psalms 59:3
For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.
Proverbs 16:29
A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.
Jeremiah 18:19
Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
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Jeremiah 21:8
And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jeremiah 21:9
He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.
Jeremiah 21:10
For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.
Ezekiel 11:12
And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.
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Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Acts 5:20
Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.
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Jeremiah 50:33
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.
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Jeremiah 50:34
Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
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Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
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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Ezekiel 3:9
Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
Ezekiel 3:10
Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.
Zephaniah 1:8
And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.
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Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
Isaiah 5:19
Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
Hosea 7:13
May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
Micah 2:6
Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!
Matthew 23:28
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.
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Daniel 8:12
...against the regular burned offering; and...crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it.
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Daniel 8:24
And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.
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2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.
2 Samuel 13:29
So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.
Hosea 7:4
They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
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Amos 5:19
As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
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Amos 5:20
Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
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2 Kings 15:27
In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.
Micah 1:1
The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.
Micah 1:5
All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
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Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Isaiah 31:1
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
Jeremiah 3:5
Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
Jeremiah 22:21
My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.
Jeremiah 30:14
Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
Zephaniah 3:2
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
Zephaniah 3:7
I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.
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Mark 3:6
And the Pharisees went out, and straight away made designs with the Herodians about how they might put him to death.
Luke 13:14
And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath.
Luke 13:16
And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?
Luke 13:17
And when he said these things, those who were against him were shamed, and all the people were full of joy because of the great things which were done by him.
Luke 20:23
But he saw through their trick and said to them,
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1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
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.
Isaiah 32:6
For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
Matthew 12:36
And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.
Mark 7:21
Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
Mark 7:22
The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts 8:21
You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
Ephesians 2:2
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
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Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Psalms 55:11
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
Psalms 73:6
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Proverbs 28:3
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Jeremiah 6:7
As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
Hosea 5:10
The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
Amos 3:9
Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.
Habakkuk 1:11
Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.
Luke 3:14
And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.
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2 Samuel 24:24
And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Isaiah 3:9
Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
Jeremiah 5:26
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Ezekiel 13:18
This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?
Micah 6:6
With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
Habakkuk 2:15
A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!
Luke 6:24
But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.
Luke 11:42
But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
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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Mark 2:6
But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Mark 2:7
Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?
Mark 3:2
And they were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath day, so that they might have something against him.
Mark 3:3
And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.
Mark 3:4
And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.
Mark 3:5
And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
Luke 6:7
And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him.
Luke 13:15
But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?
Luke 20:20
And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.
Luke 20:21
And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:
Luke 20:22
Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?
Revelation 12:10
And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.
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Acts 16:9
And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.
Acts 18:10
For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.
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Acts 18:9
And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:
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1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.
1 Corinthians 9:17
But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
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Hebrews 7:6
But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
1 Kings 21:4
So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.
1 Kings 21:16
So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.
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 29:15
Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
Habakkuk 2:9
A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
Isaiah 59:13
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.
Mark 7:20
And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
Romans 6:19
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
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.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
James 4:1
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
1 John 3:15
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
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