1 Samuel 12:21
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
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1 Samuel 12:21
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
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Genesis 20:7
Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Exodus 32:11
Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:30
On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
Numbers 11:2
The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
Numbers 14:17
Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
Numbers 14:18
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
Numbers 14:19
Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
Numbers 14:20
Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
Numbers 21:7
The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
Deuteronomy 9:20
Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
Deuteronomy 9:26
I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
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Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.
1 Kings 16:26
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
Isaiah 41:23
Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
Isaiah 45:20
“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
Jeremiah 10:4
They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.
Jeremiah 10:5
They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”
Jeremiah 51:18
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:23
and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
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Exodus 33:10
All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
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Numbers 21:23
Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
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Deuteronomy 1:4
after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
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Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Deuteronomy 9:28
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 9:29
Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
1 Samuel 7:8
The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Job 42:10
Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
Isaiah 37:4
It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
Jeremiah 15:1
Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
James 5:16
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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Joshua 23:6
“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
1 Samuel 15:11
“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
Psalms 14:3
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalms 78:41
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:57
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Zephaniah 1:5
those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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1 Samuel 12:6
Samuel said to the people, “It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
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1 Kings 14:14
Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
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2 Kings 9:27
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
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Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Isaiah 24:10
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:23
who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
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Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
Psalms 28:1
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
Amos 2:4
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
John 2:8
He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.
John 6:67
Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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1 Kings 15:5
because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 22:43
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Chronicles 16:7
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
2 Chronicles 16:8
Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and exceedingly many horsemen? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
2 Chronicles 16:11
Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 16:12
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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Proverbs 28:18
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
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Isaiah 30:5
They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
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Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
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Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
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1 Samuel 12:24
Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
Isaiah 62:7
and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.
1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 12:7
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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Habakkuk 2:20
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
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Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
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Acts 11:15
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
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