Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Genesis 3:5
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Job 12:9
Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
Psalms 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
Isaiah 47:8
“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
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.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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Genesis 4:14
Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”
Genesis 4:16
Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Psalms 51:11
Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalms 51:13
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.
Psalms 51:14
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
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Genesis 25:32
Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
Numbers 11:6
but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”
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Genesis 26:16
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Matthew 8:29
Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
Mark 1:24
saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
Mark 5:7
and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”
Luke 8:28
When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”
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Numbers 14:20
Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word;
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10
You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
Judges 18:10
When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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Ruth 1:16
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
John 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
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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Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Job 9:18
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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Ruth 2:22
Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”
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1 Samuel 6:19
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
1 Samuel 6:21
They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back Yahweh’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”
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2 Samuel 6:8
David was displeased because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day.
2 Samuel 6:10
So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
2 Samuel 6:11
Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
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1 Kings 20:5
The messengers came again and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children;
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Exodus 3:19
I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
Exodus 15:10
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Judges 1:15
She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
2 Chronicles 32:15
Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
2 Chronicles 32:19
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Daniel 7:8
“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking arrogantly.
Daniel 11:37
He won’t regard the gods of his fathers, or the desire of women, or regard any god; for he will magnify himself above all.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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Job 1:8
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Job 1:9
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
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Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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Job 8:16
He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
Psalms 27:14
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
Psalms 73:27
For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 64:7
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:49
“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
Amos 4:12
“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
Revelation 18:16
saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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Job 9:21
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
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 9:30
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 10:15
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
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Job 9:27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
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Job 15:25
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
Job 15:26
he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
Job 15:27
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Isaiah 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Jeremiah 8:6
I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 16:15
but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
Jeremiah 16:16
“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16:17
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
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.’
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalms 94:4
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 10:14
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Isaiah 10:15
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:24
By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
Isaiah 37:25
I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
Isaiah 37:28
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
Isaiah 37:29
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
Acts 7:53
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
Jeremiah 15:11
Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Jeremiah 40:12
then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.
Malachi 1:12
“But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Malachi 1:14
“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.
Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
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1 Samuel 25:36
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
Psalms 36:1
A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
Isaiah 22:13
and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Revelation 16:9
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
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Psalms 74:23
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Psalms 94:7
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Isaiah 52:5
“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
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.”
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Psalms 107:6
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
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Psalms 116:1
I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
Psalms 116:2
Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalms 116:3
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 116:4
Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Hosea 5:4
Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.
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.
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.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
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Deuteronomy 10:13
to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Job 22:2
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Proverbs 3:13
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
Proverbs 3:14
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 3:15
She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 4:8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
Proverbs 4:9
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Job 22:16
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Job 34:33
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Isaiah 26:10
Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
Isaiah 65:20
“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,
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Job 4:6
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Job 4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Psalms 26:5
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalms 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
1 John 3:19
And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
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Jeremiah 38:4
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
Luke 19:27
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
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Psalms 10:12
Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 74:22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
Isaiah 5:19
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
Daniel 7:11
“I watched at that time because of the voice of the arrogant words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
Daniel 8:11
Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Daniel 11:36
“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished, for that which is determined will be done.
Revelation 13:5
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
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Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
Jeremiah 2:12
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
Jeremiah 2:32
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
Micah 6:3
My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
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Psalms 139:7
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Psalms 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
Psalms 139:9
If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
Jonah 1:10
Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
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Psalms 85:8
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Habakkuk 1:14
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
Habakkuk 1:17
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Job 1:21
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
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.”
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea 11:2
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
Amos 6:1
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
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Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luke 19:20
Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
Ephesians 6:18
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
Colossians 4:3
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
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Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 65:1
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Luke 16:1
He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Revelation 17:4
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
Hebrews 10:19
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:21
and having a great priest over God’s house,
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Malachi 1:10
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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Job 8:3
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 21:20
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 34:10
“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job 34:11
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job 34:12
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Revelation 15:3
They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
Revelation 16:7
I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
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