Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:14
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
Genesis 1:17
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Psalms 19:3
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
Psalms 19:4
Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Psalms 139:12
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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Genesis 18:25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
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.
Job 34:18
who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
Job 34:19
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.
Ezekiel 18:25
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 33:17
“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
Ezekiel 33:19
When the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.
Ezekiel 33:20
Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”
Zephaniah 3:5
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
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Exodus 16:28
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
Leviticus 4:13
“ ‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
Psalms 78:7
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
Psalms 89:31
if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
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Leviticus 3:17
“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
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Leviticus 10:11
You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
Deuteronomy 31:12
Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law,
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Nehemiah 8:7
Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
Nehemiah 8:8
They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
Nehemiah 13:3
It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
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Leviticus 23:14
You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
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Leviticus 18:4
You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 18:26
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
Leviticus 20:22
“ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
Deuteronomy 4:1
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 5:31
But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”
Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
Deuteronomy 7:11
You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
Deuteronomy 12:32
Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
2 Kings 17:37
The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.
Nehemiah 9:14
and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
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Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
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Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Psalms 119:121
I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
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Deuteronomy 21:9
So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Psalms 146:8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
Isaiah 6:9
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Isaiah 63:17
O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Ezekiel 12:2
“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
John 8:43
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
Romans 11:8
According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
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Ruth 4:15
He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.”
Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1:19
“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
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1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
Proverbs 24:14
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
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Job 39:4
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
Matthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
John 17:13
But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
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Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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Job 22:22
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Psalms 25:10
All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
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 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Psalms 56:4
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psalms 56:10
In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
Psalms 56:11
I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
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Psalms 84:11
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalms 118:27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
John 1:9
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
2 Corinthians 4:6
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:13
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 John 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Revelation 21:23
The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb.
Revelation 22:5
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
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Psalms 93:1
Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
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Psalms 93:5
Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
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Deuteronomy 4:44
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Psalms 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Psalms 147:19
He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
Psalms 147:20
He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Hosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Malachi 4:4
“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
Romans 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
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Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Psalms 119:13
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119:38
Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.
Psalms 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Psalms 119:129
Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
Psalms 119:131
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Psalms 119:167
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
Psalms 119:172
Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
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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.
Psalms 111:8
They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
Psalms 119:74
Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.
Psalms 119:89
Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
Psalms 119:90
Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
Psalms 119:160
All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
John 10:35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
Hebrews 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
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Leviticus 27:34
These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Deuteronomy 7:12
It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
2 Samuel 22:23
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
2 Kings 23:3
The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before Yahweh to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
Nehemiah 1:7
We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:7
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:8
I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.
Psalms 119:93
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
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Job 33:3
My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
Psalms 49:3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.
Proverbs 4:2
for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 22:20
Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21
To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
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Psalms 25:4
Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
Isaiah 35:8
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Hebrews 8:10
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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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Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Micah 3:6
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
Colossians 1:26
the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
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Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 26:2
“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
Ecclesiastes 12:9
Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.
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.
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Genesis 3:21
Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Matthew 5:17
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
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.
James 2:12
So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
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Song of Solomon 7:9
Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. Beloved
Acts 16:31
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:22
“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
Isaiah 41:23
Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
Isaiah 41:26
Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.
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Judges 5:31
“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
Psalms 9:10
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalms 32:11
Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
Psalms 36:9
For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
Song of Solomon 6:10
Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 49:2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.
Amos 5:8
Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
Habakkuk 3:4
His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 1:8
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
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Hosea 2:14
“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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Deuteronomy 32:5
They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Isaiah 30:8
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
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.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Mark 7:8
“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
Matthew 22:39
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:40
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
Mark 12:29
Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mark 12:30
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Mark 12:31
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:32
The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he;
Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Mark 12:34
When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.
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Luke 16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
Luke 16:30
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
Luke 16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
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Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Psalms 119:43
Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
Proverbs 15:29
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Matthew 5:28
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Luke 24:32
They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
Acts 24:16
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
1 Corinthians 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
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2 Samuel 22:31
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
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Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 20:31
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 10:6
He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.
Acts 10:22
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
Acts 10:32
Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
Acts 10:43
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
Acts 11:14
who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
Romans 10:9
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:10
For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
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John 7:50
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
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John 7:53
Everyone went to his own house,
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Matthew 22:29
But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
1 John 2:7
Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
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Romans 2:17
Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 2:20
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
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Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
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Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 7:8
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 7:10
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Romans 7:11
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
2 Corinthians 5:19
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 3:11
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
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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,
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1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
1 Corinthians 12:7
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
Ephesians 4:11
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Hebrews 5:12
For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Hebrews 5:13
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
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Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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1 Chronicles 29:19
and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
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.
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 119:24
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Acts 20:20
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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