Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
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Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
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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 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
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 9:2
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.
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
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Genesis 8:8
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Job 39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Psalms 125:3
For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Isaiah 65:23
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:17
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
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Genesis 18:23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
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?”
Joshua 7:8
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
1 Kings 17:20
He cried to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
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Exodus 30:20
When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Psalms 51:2
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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.
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 3:21
This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
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Deuteronomy 21:7
They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Job 21:34
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Job 35:16
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
Job 9:27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 77:10
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalms 116:10
I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”
Psalms 116:11
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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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 11:3
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 34:8
who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 26:4
I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 4:14
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
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Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 9:21
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
Job 9:22
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 9:29
I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Job 9:31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
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.
Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 31:2
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
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Job 12:5
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
Job 21:8
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 22:17
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
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Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
Luke 9:25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
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Psalms 58:11
so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalms 92:15
to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
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,
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?’
Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Acts 17:31
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
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,
Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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Job 17:8
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Psalms 13:5
But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
Psalms 18:20
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalms 37:7
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Psalms 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 50:8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
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Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 13:15
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
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.
Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
Luke 6:24
“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
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.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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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.”
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.
Jeremiah 44:18
But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
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Zechariah 1:19
I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
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Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
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Matthew 15:2
“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Mark 7:2
Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.
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Matthew 19:27
Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”
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