Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
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Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
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2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Psalms 44:17
All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.
Isaiah 42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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Job 18:10
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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Psalms 9:15
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
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 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
Psalms 124:6
Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Hosea 5:1
“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
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Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Psalms 10:12
Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
Psalms 10:13
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
Psalms 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10:16
Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
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 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
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Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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.”
Proverbs 21:16
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
Ezekiel 48:11
It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
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Psalms 69:22
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
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Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
Psalms 119:56
This is my way, that I keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:63
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Psalms 119:128
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:141
I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
Psalms 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Psalms 119:168
I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.
Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
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Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
Psalms 119:118
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
Psalms 119:119
You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
Psalms 119:122
Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
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Psalms 119:136
Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.
Psalms 119:139
My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
Psalms 119:158
I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
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Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
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Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
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.
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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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Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
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