Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
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Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
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Genesis 26:27
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
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Leviticus 2:13
Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Luke 14:34
“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
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Joshua 22:16
“The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?
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1 Samuel 24:16
It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
1 Samuel 26:17
Saul recognized David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 24:26
An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.
Luke 21:15
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
Acts 6:10
They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
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Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
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Esther 8:3
Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.
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Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35:4
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
Isaiah 40:14
Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 41:5
The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
Isaiah 41:6
Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
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Job 6:14
“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
Job 6:22
Did I ever say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’
Job 6:23
or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
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Job 6:28
Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.
Job 6:29
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Job 6:30
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Job 17:2
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Job 21:3
Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
Job 21:34
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Job 24:25
If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”
Job 26:4
To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
Job 27:12
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Job 32:3
Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
Job 9:22
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
Job 22:4
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
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Job 8:8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Job 8:10
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 11:6
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 11:12
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
Job 12:1
Then Job answered,
Job 15:2
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Job 20:3
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 32:7
I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Job 32:10
Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’
Job 32:11
“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job 32:13
Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’
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Job 9:33
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
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?”
Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
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Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Proverbs 19:25
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
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Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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 6:5
I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Matthew 4:18
Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
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Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
Jonah 4:11
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
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Isaiah 19:18
In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”
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Jeremiah 28:14
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. I have also given him the animals of the field.” ’ ”
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Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
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John 7:50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
John 7:53
Everyone went to his own house,
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Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
Job 32:15
“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Matthew 22:22
When they heard it, they marveled, and left him and went away.
Matthew 22:26
In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
Matthew 22:34
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
Matthew 22:46
No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
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Haggai 1:14
Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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