Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
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Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
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Genesis 4:4
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:5
but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
Psalms 5:1
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
Psalms 5:2
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.
Psalms 51:15
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
Psalms 119:108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
Hebrews 13:15
Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
1 Peter 2:5
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Zechariah 8:17
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
Luke 11:39
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
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Genesis 27:12
What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
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Exodus 9:27
Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
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Exodus 9:28
Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
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Exodus 14:3
Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
Exodus 14:4
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
Exodus 14:5
The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
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Leviticus 11:47
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’ ”
Leviticus 13:59
This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Leviticus 15:31
“ ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’ ”
Numbers 5:3
You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
Deuteronomy 24:8
Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Ezekiel 44:23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
1 Chronicles 5:20
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them because they put their trust in him.
2 Chronicles 33:12
When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:13
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.
Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way.
Job 8:5
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
Isaiah 19:22
Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Job 11:15
Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Psalms 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
Psalms 119:7
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
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1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
Psalms 7:3
Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 16:8
I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms 26:6
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
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,
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
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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2 Samuel 22:21
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
2 Samuel 22:22
For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
2 Samuel 22:23
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
2 Samuel 22:24
I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
2 Samuel 22:25
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
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1 Kings 8:22
Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
1 Kings 8:54
It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
Ezra 9:5
At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
Job 31:26
if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
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1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.
James 5:14
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
James 5:15
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
James 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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1 Samuel 28:5
When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
2 Kings 3:14
Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
Matthew 25:12
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
John 6:70
Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
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2 Kings 13:3
Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
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2 Kings 13:4
Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
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1 Chronicles 29:18
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
2 Chronicles 16:9
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalms 119:113
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Malachi 1:9
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
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Psalms 25:7
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
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Psalms 28:6
Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
Psalms 66:8
Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
John 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
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Psalms 66:13
I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
Psalms 66:14
which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
Psalms 66:15
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
Luke 17:15
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
Luke 17:16
He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:17
Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Luke 17:18
Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
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Job 7:18
that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Psalms 101:3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 59:21
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
Jonah 2:8
Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
Jonah 3:10
God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
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?
Micah 6:9
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
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Psalms 119:136
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
Psalms 119:158
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),
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Nehemiah 9:15
and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
Psalms 80:4
Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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Job 10:7
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Psalms 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Psalms 44:17
All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Hebrews 13:19
I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
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Psalms 3:4
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 34:3
Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.
Psalms 34:4
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms 37:4
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 116:2
Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalms 118:5
Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
Psalms 138:3
In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
Isaiah 30:19
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Isaiah 65:24
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Mark 14:39
Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.
1 John 5:15
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
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Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Jeremiah 11:7
For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”
Jeremiah 11:8
Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”
Jeremiah 11:9
Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 11:10
They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Jeremiah 11:12
Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 11:13
For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
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Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
Jeremiah 42:21
I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
Luke 20:8
Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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Lamentations 3:43
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
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Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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Judges 20:25
Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
Job 9:16
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Hosea 10:9
“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.
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Jonah 1:7
They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
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Job 36:21
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Matthew 5:21
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
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.
Matthew 5:30
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, 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.
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Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
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Psalms 17:3
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
Psalms 50:13
Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:23
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
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.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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.
James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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Job 16:18
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Proverbs 15:26
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Romans 8:8
Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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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 99:7
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
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 14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen, but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
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Acts 9:14
Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
1 Corinthians 1:2
to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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1 Samuel 28:15
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
1 Corinthians 11:29
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
1 Thessalonians 5:19
Don’t quench the Spirit.
Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
Jude 1:4
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,
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