Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
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Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
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Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
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Deuteronomy 4:23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
1 Kings 2:4
Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
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.
Psalms 9:1
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 119:80
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Romans 10:10
For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
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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Deuteronomy 13:12
If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
Deuteronomy 31:11
when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Luke 1:1
Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
Luke 1:2
even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
Luke 1:3
it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
Luke 1:4
that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
John 20:30
Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
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.
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Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
1 Kings 8:47
yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’
2 Chronicles 22:9
He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart.” The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
Psalms 95:10
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
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Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:10
if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Judges 10:15
The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
Judges 10:16
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
1 Samuel 7:4
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
Nehemiah 1:9
but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
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.
Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
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 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
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1 Chronicles 28:8
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
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 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:33
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Psalms 119:44
So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
Psalms 119:47
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Psalms 119:48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:106
I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
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.
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2 Chronicles 14:4
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.
Nehemiah 10:29
joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Nehemiah 10:30
and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
Nehemiah 10:31
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 10:32
Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Nehemiah 10:33
for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Nehemiah 10:34
We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
Nehemiah 10:35
and to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
Nehemiah 10:36
also the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
Nehemiah 10:37
and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all our farming villages.
Nehemiah 10:38
The priest, the descendent of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
Nehemiah 10:39
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
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Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
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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 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 37:4
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Psalms 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
Proverbs 10:3
Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Isaiah 33:2
Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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Psalms 31:4
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
Psalms 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psalms 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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Psalms 47:6
Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!
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Psalms 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
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Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 51:2
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms 51:3
For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
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1 Samuel 1:10
She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.
1 Samuel 1:15
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
Psalms 61:1
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms 102:1
Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
Psalms 142:1
I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
Psalms 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Psalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
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1 Kings 15:3
He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Chronicles 12:33
Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
Psalms 26:1
Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 32:11
Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Psalms 94:15
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
Psalms 111:1
Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
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.
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
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Psalms 86:1
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Psalms 86:2
Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
Psalms 86:3
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Psalms 86:4
Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
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Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Psalms 119:96
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 34:16
Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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Psalms 119:8
I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.
Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Psalms 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Psalms 119:51
The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Psalms 119:64
The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:102
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Psalms 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Luke 24:45
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
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Psalms 119:17
Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
Psalms 119:49
Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
Psalms 119:131
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Psalms 119:147
I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
Luke 8:8
Other fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
John 3:14
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
2 Peter 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
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Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Psalms 141:4
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
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Psalms 5:8
Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
Psalms 23:3
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psalms 25:9
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Psalms 119:133
Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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.
Matthew 13:44
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
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Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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.
Jeremiah 32:41
Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
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Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
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Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Song of Solomon 3:4
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
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Job 39:17
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Psalms 69:27
Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
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 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Jeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Ezekiel 14:7
“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
Ezekiel 14:8
I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 14:9
“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Psalms 107:43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Proverbs 4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Proverbs 6:22
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Isaiah 30:20
Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
Isaiah 30:21
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
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.
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Lamentations 3:66
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Proverbs 21:16
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
2 Peter 2:15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2 Peter 2:22
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
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Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 2:14
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Proverbs 2:15
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
Matthew 4:7
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
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Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Luke 12:31
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
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Luke 2:19
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
Luke 2:51
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
Luke 9:45
But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
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Luke 20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Luke 20:21
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
Luke 20:22
Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
Luke 20:23
But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?
Luke 20:24
Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”
Luke 20:25
He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Luke 20:26
They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.
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Psalms 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Psalms 105:3
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
Psalms 105:4
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
Zephaniah 1:5
those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Acts 13:22
When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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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Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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.
Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
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Psalms 4:6
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
Psalms 103:1
Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Matthew 6:13
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
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Jude 1:20
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
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