1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
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1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
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Numbers 14:6
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.
Numbers 14:7
They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
Numbers 14:8
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
Numbers 14:9
Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
Numbers 14:10
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
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Numbers 22:6
Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
Psalms 109:28
They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
Proverbs 26:2
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
Isaiah 47:12
“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 47:13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
Acts 8:9
But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
Acts 8:10
to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”
Acts 16:16
As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
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Numbers 22:18
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
Numbers 23:20
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
Numbers 24:13
‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
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Judges 4:4
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
1 Kings 14:5
Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
2 Kings 22:13
“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”
1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
1 Chronicles 10:14
and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Jeremiah 23:18
For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
Jeremiah 37:7
“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.
Ezekiel 14:3
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:7
“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
Ezekiel 20:3
“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’
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1 Samuel 15:20
Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Matthew 14:4
For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
Matthew 14:5
When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew 14:10
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
Matthew 21:46
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
Mark 11:18
The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
Mark 11:32
If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.
Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away.
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1 Kings 12:9
He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’ ”
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1 Kings 16:30
Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.
1 Kings 16:33
Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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1 Kings 18:10
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
Amos 7:11
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”
Amos 7:12
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
Amos 7:13
but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
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1 Kings 20:32
So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ ” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
1 Kings 20:34
Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
1 Kings 20:36
Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.
1 Kings 20:37
Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.” The man struck him and wounded him.
1 Kings 20:39
As the king passed by, he cried to the king, and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
1 Kings 20:40
As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”
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1 Kings 21:28
Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
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1 Kings 21:29
“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
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1 Kings 16:12
Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
1 Kings 22:2
In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings 22:3
The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
1 Kings 22:4
He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
1 Kings 22:29
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
2 Chronicles 18:28
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 20:34
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.
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1 Kings 22:24
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22:25
Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
Isaiah 9:15
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
Jeremiah 6:14
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
Ezekiel 13:10
“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
Ezekiel 13:11
Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
Ezekiel 13:16
to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Hosea 9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Micah 2:11
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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1 Kings 22:32
When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22:33
When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
1 Kings 22:34
A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am severely wounded.”
1 Kings 22:35
The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
1 Kings 22:36
A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
2 Chronicles 18:17
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
2 Chronicles 35:22
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
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1 Kings 22:47
There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
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.”
Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
James 4:12
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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2 Kings 6:12
One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
2 Kings 6:13
He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” He was told, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
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2 Kings 6:14
Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city.
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2 Chronicles 10:6
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
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2 Chronicles 36:15
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”
Zechariah 1:4
Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
Acts 7:56
and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
Revelation 21:27
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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Esther 5:13
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Esther 6:12
Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Esther 6:13
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
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Job 13:10
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
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Proverbs 5:13
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
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Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
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.”
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
Isaiah 57:21
“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
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Job 24:13
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
Job 24:17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
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Job 5:2
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
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Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Ezekiel 2:6
You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
Micah 2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
Matthew 7:6
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Acts 7:55
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
Acts 7:57
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Isaiah 56:9
All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.
Ezekiel 34:3
You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.
Luke 10:2
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Acts 16:10
When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
Philippians 2:21
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
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Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 23:35
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
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.
Jeremiah 20:8
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.
Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Revelation 16:10
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
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Jeremiah 37:15
The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
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1 Samuel 18:10
On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
1 Kings 22:12
All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22:19
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22:21
A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
1 Kings 22:22
Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
2 Kings 3:12
Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 3:17
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
Ezekiel 3:18
When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezekiel 13:6
They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Jeremiah 21:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
Jeremiah 37:17
then Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,
Ezekiel 20:2
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Isaiah 56:12
“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
Ezekiel 34:2
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Ezekiel 34:5
They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
Zechariah 11:5
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”
Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
Acts 16:9
A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Mark 13:13
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 3:13
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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2 Kings 6:31
Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
Mark 6:21
Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
Mark 6:22
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
Mark 6:23
He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
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.”
Mark 6:26
The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.
Mark 6:27
Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring John’s head; and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
Mark 6:28
and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
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 23:15
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
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Luke 3:10
The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
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Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
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Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Acts 2:24
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
Acts 2:25
For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Acts 2:26
Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
Acts 2:27
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Acts 2:28
You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
Acts 2:29
“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 2:30
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Acts 2:31
he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
Acts 3:15
and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
Acts 4:10
may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.
Acts 4:11
He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
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Acts 2:32
This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.
Acts 2:34
For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
Acts 2:35
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’
Acts 2:36
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
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Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
Acts 17:5
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
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Romans 11:2
God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
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Romans 11:4
But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
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1 Corinthians 4:1
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
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1 Corinthians 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
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Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Galatians 3:2
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
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1 Kings 18:20
So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
1 Kings 21:25
But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1 Kings 22:28
Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
2 Kings 3:13
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
2 Chronicles 18:5
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” They said, “Go up, for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
Ezekiel 13:18
and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:5
and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
Hebrews 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Luke 6:26
Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Acts 5:28
saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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1 Samuel 3:20
All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
1 Samuel 19:20
Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
1 Kings 19:16
Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
2 Kings 2:2
Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:3
The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over you today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
2 Kings 2:4
Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:5
The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from over you today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
2 Kings 6:1
The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.
2 Peter 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Revelation 11:2
Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
Revelation 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:7
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
Revelation 11:8
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:9
From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
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