Luke 18:9
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
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Luke 18:9
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
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Leviticus 13:30
Then the priest is to see the diseased place: and if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and if there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest will say that he is unclean: he has the mark of the leper's disease on his head or in the hair of his chin.
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Leviticus 13:32
And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin,
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Leviticus 19:34
Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Matthew 19:20
The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?
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?
Luke 10:26
And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?
Luke 10:27
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
Luke 10:28
And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.
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Deuteronomy 25:3
He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
Job 18:3
Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?
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Judges 9:27
And they went out into their fields and got in the fruit of their vines, and when the grapes had been crushed, they made a holy feast and went into the house of their god, and over their food and drink they were cursing Abimelech.
Judges 9:28
And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?
Judges 9:29
If only I had authority over this people! I would put Abimelech out of the way, and I would say to Abimelech, Make your army strong, and come out.
Judges 9:38
Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.
Nehemiah 4:2
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.
Nehemiah 4:4
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Psalms 123:4
For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
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Job 32:2
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;
Job 40:7
Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Job 40:8
Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
Isaiah 43:9
Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Isaiah 43:26
Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
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Proverbs 16:2
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
James 2:14
What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
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Isaiah 66:5
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
Acts 22:21
And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
1 Corinthians 16:11
See then that he has the honour which is right. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me: for I am looking for him with the brothers.
Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
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Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
Jeremiah 17:7
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
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Ezekiel 16:62
And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:31
And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
Ezekiel 36:32
Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
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Amos 5:18
Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
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Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
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Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
Matthew 9:12
But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
Matthew 9:13
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
Mark 2:17
And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?
Luke 5:31
And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
Luke 7:34
The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.
Luke 7:37
And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,
Luke 15:1
Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.
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Matthew 9:14
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?
Mark 2:18
And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
Mark 2:21
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.
Mark 2:22
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
Luke 5:33
And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.
Luke 5:34
And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?
Luke 5:35
But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
Luke 5:36
And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.
Luke 5:37
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.
Luke 5:38
But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
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1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off.
Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
Zephaniah 3:11
In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.
Zechariah 4:10
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
Matthew 20:11
And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
Romans 2:17
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
Romans 11:18
Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.
Romans 11:20
Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
1 Corinthians 1:29
So that no flesh might have glory before God.
1 Corinthians 1:31
So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
Ephesians 2:9
Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
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Numbers 23:4
And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:7
Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
Matthew 6:16
And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
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Matthew 23:28
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
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Luke 5:39
And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.
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Luke 8:10
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
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Job 22:29
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
Psalms 101:5
I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
Ecclesiastes 7:21
Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
Luke 14:11
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
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Luke 19:1
And he went into Jericho, and when he was going through it,
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John 7:47
Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?
John 7:50
Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,
John 7:51
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?
John 7:52
This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
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Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
Isaiah 60:14
And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 9:24
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
Matthew 11:18
For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.
Mark 9:12
And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?
John 8:48
The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?
John 9:34
Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.
1 Corinthians 1:28
And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:
Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Matthew 18:10
Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.
Luke 19:27
And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.
Romans 14:15
And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
Romans 14:21
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
1 Corinthians 8:11
And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
1 Corinthians 8:12
And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
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1 Corinthians 13:1
If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3
And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
1 Thessalonians 5:20
Do not make little of the words of the prophets;
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Job 40:14
Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
Psalms 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
Psalms 44:5
Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
Psalms 44:6
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.
Psalms 44:7
But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
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 4:7
But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
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2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
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Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Romans 3:9
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
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:
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:22
That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
Romans 7:7
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Romans 8:33
Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;
Galatians 3:11
Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
Galatians 5:4
You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
James 2:24
You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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Luke 18:20
You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.
Romans 3:23
For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
Romans 4:15
For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
Romans 7:10
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
Romans 7:11
For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
Romans 7:12
But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
Galatians 2:16
Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
Galatians 5:3
Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.
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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 35:5
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Job 35:6
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
Psalms 22:24
For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
Proverbs 14:21
He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.
Proverbs 18:3
When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.
James 2:2
For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,
James 2:3
And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;
James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
James 2:16
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
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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.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
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.
2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
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Job 9:30
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Proverbs 20:6
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Isaiah 57:12
I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
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;
Zechariah 7:3
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
Jude 1:19
These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.
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