Zechariah 11:15
And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
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Zechariah 11:15
And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
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Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Psalms 7:2
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Psalms 23:4
Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
Jeremiah 23:1
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
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 34:16
I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
Zechariah 11:4
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;
Zechariah 11:6
For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
Zechariah 11:8
And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
John 10:8
All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.
John 10:11
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
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Leviticus 26:17
And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.
Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
Jeremiah 6:14
And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:15
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: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:11
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Jeremiah 14:15
So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
Jeremiah 14:16
And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
Jeremiah 23:16
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:17
They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.
Micah 2:11
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
Micah 3:7
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
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1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
1 Kings 3:7
And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
Psalms 78:72
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Timothy 2:15
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
James 1:5
But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
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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 53:2
God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,
Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.
Isaiah 32:7
The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
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Proverbs 15:2
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Matthew 15:14
Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
Matthew 23:16
A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
Matthew 23:18
And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
Matthew 23:19
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
Matthew 23:20
He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
Matthew 23:21
And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.
Matthew 23:22
And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
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Ezekiel 13:10
Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:
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Ezekiel 25:4
For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink.
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Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Daniel 11:35
And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.
Daniel 11:37
He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.
Daniel 11:38
But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.
Daniel 12:1
And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.
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Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.
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Zechariah 1:17
And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.
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Zechariah 11:1
Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
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Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
Zechariah 11:9
And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.
Matthew 9:36
But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.
Hebrews 12:12
For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,
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Malachi 2:1
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
Malachi 2:3
See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Matthew 21:41
They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.
Matthew 21:42
Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
Matthew 21:43
For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
Matthew 21:44
Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.
Matthew 21:45
And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.
Mark 12:8
And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.
Mark 12:9
What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.
Luke 20:16
He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
Luke 20:17
But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
Luke 20:18
Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.
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Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Hosea 9:8
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
Matthew 23:25
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
Luke 6:39
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?
1 Timothy 6:4
He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,
2 Timothy 3:9
But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.
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John 1:10
He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.
John 1:11
He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.
John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
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Micah 4:12
But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
Revelation 9:1
And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
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