2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
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2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
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Leviticus 20:9
“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
2 Samuel 18:9
Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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Deuteronomy 33:22
About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”
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1 Samuel 19:10
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 19:12
So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:13
Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.
1 Samuel 19:14
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
1 Samuel 19:15
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 19:16
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
1 Samuel 19:17
Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”
1 Samuel 20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 23:22
Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
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1 Samuel 20:3
David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
1 Samuel 25:29
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 18:18
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
Psalms 18:19
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
Psalms 118:13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
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2 Samuel 13:5
Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’ ”
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Proverbs 19:27
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Micah 7:1
Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
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2 Samuel 3:3
and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 13:29
The servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule and fled.
2 Samuel 13:37
But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel 14:25
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.
2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
2 Samuel 15:5
It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
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2 Samuel 15:23
All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
2 Samuel 17:24
Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
2 Samuel 17:27
When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
2 Samuel 17:28
brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
2 Samuel 17:29
honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
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2 Samuel 15:26
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 22:20
He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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2 Samuel 17:15
Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.
2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and report to them, and they went and told king David; for they couldn’t risk being seen coming into the city.
2 Samuel 17:18
But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
2 Samuel 17:19
The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.
2 Samuel 17:20
Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 70:1
Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
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1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
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Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Psalms 3:2
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.
Psalms 3:3
But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
Psalms 3:4
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 3:5
I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.
Psalms 3:6
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
Psalms 17:9
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
Psalms 17:13
Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psalms 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men:
Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Luke 20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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Psalms 55:10
Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
Psalms 109:16
because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
Isaiah 59:8
They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
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Psalms 59:6
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
Psalms 59:14
At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
Psalms 59:15
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
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Psalms 86:14
God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
Psalms 119:61
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
Psalms 140:4
Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
Acts 12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
Acts 23:14
They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23:21
Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
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Esther 5:14
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Proverbs 1:13
We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
Proverbs 1:14
You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse”—
Proverbs 1:17
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
Mark 6:25
She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”
Romans 1:32
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
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Job 19:19
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Psalms 55:20
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
Psalms 109:3
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
Proverbs 4:16
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Mark 14:10
Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
Mark 14:11
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
Luke 22:48
But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
John 18:3
Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
Matthew 26:60
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward
Matthew 26:61
and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”
Matthew 26:62
The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”
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Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
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Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
Matthew 4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
Matthew 4:6
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
Matthew 4:7
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”
Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 4:9
He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
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Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Psalms 83:3
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Matthew 27:2
They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
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2 Samuel 13:39
King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
1 Corinthians 4:8
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
1 Corinthians 4:16
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
1 Corinthians 4:17
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
2 Corinthians 6:13
Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
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2 Samuel 18:5
The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.
Psalms 63:9
But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Psalms 103:13
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
1 Timothy 1:9
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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