Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
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Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
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Genesis 30:18
Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.
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Exodus 1:21
And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.
2 Samuel 7:12
And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.
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Exodus 15:7
When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
Psalms 119:119
All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
Isaiah 2:13
And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
Isaiah 2:14
And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;
Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
Isaiah 2:16
And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.
Isaiah 2:17
And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isaiah 5:24
For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 40:24
They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
Isaiah 41:2
Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
Isaiah 47:14
Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
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Exodus 16:2
And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
Numbers 11:5
Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:
Numbers 11:6
But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.
Jeremiah 40:12
Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.
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Exodus 21:11
And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
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Numbers 14:23
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Daniel 6:16
Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.
Matthew 4:6
If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
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Deuteronomy 1:41
Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.
Deuteronomy 1:43
This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.
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Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.
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1 Samuel 6:19
But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.
1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
1 Samuel 6:21
And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.
2 Samuel 6:9
And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?
2 Samuel 6:10
So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel 6:11
And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.
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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?
Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:19
The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Jeremiah 2:22
For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
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 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
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.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:37
Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
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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2 Samuel 7:13
He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
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2 Kings 11:3
And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Chronicles 22:12
And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.
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Job 8:2
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Job 38:2
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3
Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:8
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.
Psalms 139:4
For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
James 1:26
If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
James 3:2
For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
James 3:3
Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.
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Job 13:4
But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
Job 13:5
If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Job 15:3
Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
Job 16:2
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Job 16:3
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Job 26:1
Then Job made answer and said,
Job 26:2
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Job 26:3
How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
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Psalms 10:12
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
Psalms 94:7
And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isaiah 57:4
Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,
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 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 18:12
But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.
Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Hosea 11:12
The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
Amos 9:10
All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.
2 Peter 2:19
Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
2 Peter 3:4
Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
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Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
Psalms 49:11
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
Psalms 49:12
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Psalms 73:8
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
Psalms 73:17
Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Proverbs 23:17
Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
Proverbs 28:4
Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.
Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Luke 9:25
For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?
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Psalms 91:8
Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.
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Psalms 86:14
O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.
Psalms 119:21
Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.
Psalms 119:51
The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.
Psalms 119:69
The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.
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Psalms 119:136
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Psalms 119:139
My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.
Psalms 119:158
I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Ezekiel 9:6
Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
2 Peter 2:8
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
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Psalms 10:13
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
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.
Proverbs 14:14
He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
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.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
Ezekiel 18:2
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
Hosea 7:16
They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
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!
Amos 6:3
You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;
1 Corinthians 15:32
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
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Ecclesiastes 7:10
Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
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Job 18:15
In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Job 21:30
How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
Job 24:24
For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
Job 35:3
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Psalms 73:10
For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.
Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
Psalms 73:15
If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
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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!
Isaiah 28:14
Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 18:11
Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.
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.
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.
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Isaiah 9:16
For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.
Ezekiel 33:17
But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.
Malachi 2:1
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.
Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?
Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;
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Isaiah 57:21
There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
Jeremiah 6:14
And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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 8:15
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
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.
Jeremiah 28:9
The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.
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:
Ezekiel 13:16
Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 44:11
So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;
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Esther 5:10
But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife.
Psalms 31:23
O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel 5:21
And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.
Daniel 5:22
And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;
Daniel 5:23
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
Daniel 5:24
Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.
Daniel 5:25
And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres.
Daniel 5:26
This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended.
Acts 12:21
And on the day which had been fixed, Herod, dressed in his robes and seated in his place, made a public statement to them.
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Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Jeremiah 10:5
It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
Daniel 5:27
Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
Daniel 5:28
Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
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Ezekiel 16:42
And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.
Hosea 4:14
I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
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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?
Amos 5:21
Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
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Obadiah 1:18
And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.
Nahum 1:10
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
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Proverbs 12:12
The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
Habakkuk 1:13
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
Habakkuk 1:14
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.
Habakkuk 1:16
For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
Habakkuk 1:17
For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.
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Job 6:29
Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
Job 17:10
But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
Jeremiah 12:15
And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.
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?
Malachi 1:2
You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
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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?
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 1:9
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
Malachi 1:13
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 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
Matthew 20:15
Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
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 15:29
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
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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Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Malachi 3:3
He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
Malachi 3:12
And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 4:3
And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 4:4
Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
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Matthew 16:1
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.
Matthew 16:2
But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red.
Matthew 16:3
And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.
Mark 8:11
And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.
Mark 12:15
Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.
Luke 10:25
And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
Acts 15:10
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
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Job 29:3
When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
Luke 16:2
And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
Acts 17:31
Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
Romans 14:12
So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
1 Peter 4:5
But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.
Jude 1:14
The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,
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Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
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.
Psalms 76:5
Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
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.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
Zechariah 7:11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
Zechariah 7:12
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Hebrews 3:8
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
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Colossians 4:6
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
James 3:4
And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
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 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
James 3:9
With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
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?
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
Amos 5:22
Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
1 Peter 3:4
But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.
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Isaiah 46:12
Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:
2 Peter 3:15
And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;
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