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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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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Leviticus 19:13
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Proverbs 20:10
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
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.
Mark 10:19
You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
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 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.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
Deuteronomy 10:13
Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?
Deuteronomy 11:7
But your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord which he has done.
Deuteronomy 11:8
So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;
1 Peter 1:13
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1:14
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
1 Peter 1:15
But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;
1 Peter 1:16
Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
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Nehemiah 5:7
And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.
Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Nehemiah 5:11
Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.
Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.
Nehemiah 5:13
And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.
Job 31:13
If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
Job 31:14
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
Job 31:15
Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
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 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Job 31:19
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
Job 31:20
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
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;
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Job 31:22
May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
Job 31:23
For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
Job 31:24
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
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;
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Proverbs 27:8
Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.
1 Corinthians 7:20
Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.
1 Corinthians 7:21
If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
1 Corinthians 7:23
It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.
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Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.
Ezekiel 18:22
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
Acts 26:20
But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.
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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?
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Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
John 6:28
Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?
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Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
Ephesians 4:22
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Ephesians 4:25
And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
Ephesians 4:27
And do not give way to the Evil One.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
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Matthew 3:1
And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
Matthew 3:3
For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
Matthew 3:5
Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;
Matthew 3:6
And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.
Matthew 17:11
And in answer he said, Elijah truly has to come and put all things right:
Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.
Luke 3:3
And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
Luke 3:4
As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
Luke 3:5
Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;
Luke 3:6
And all flesh will see the salvation of God.
Acts 3:21
Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
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Luke 3:15
And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,
Luke 3:16
John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:
Luke 3:17
In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.
Luke 3:18
And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;
Luke 12:49
I came to send a fire on the earth, and it may even now have been lighted.
Acts 1:5
For the baptism of John was with water, but you will have baptism with the Holy Spirit, after a little time.
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Matthew 5:46
For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?
Luke 19:2
A man, named Zacchaeus, who was the chief tax-farmer, and a man of wealth,
John 5:35
He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
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Isaiah 60:17
In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
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.
Acts 4:35
And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.
Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.
2 Corinthians 8:7
And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
James 1:11
For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
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Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.
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;
Romans 2:6
Who will give to every man his right reward:
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
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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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Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Matthew 7:12
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 21:28
But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.
Matthew 21:29
And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.
Matthew 21:30
And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.
Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
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Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
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.
1 Corinthians 5:11
But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
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.
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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Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Luke 11:41
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
Luke 12:33
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
Luke 18:22
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
Luke 18:23
But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.
Acts 2:44
And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;
Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 4:34
And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;
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2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
2 Peter 1:5
So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
2 Peter 1:6
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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