Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
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Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
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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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Genesis 23:11
“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
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Genesis 39:2
Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 41:38
Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Genesis 41:39
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Genesis 41:40
You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
Genesis 49:24
But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
Joshua 6:27
So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
1 Samuel 2:26
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.
Proverbs 17:2
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Daniel 1:9
Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Daniel 1:19
The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.
Daniel 1:20
In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
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Exodus 14:27
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
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Leviticus 17:7
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’
Isaiah 34:14
The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.
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Deuteronomy 28:9
Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
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Deuteronomy 28:10
All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
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1 Samuel 18:15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
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1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
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1 Samuel 22:1
David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
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Ezra 8:18
According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
Job 20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
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 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
1 Corinthians 3:22
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
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Psalms 1:6
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 3:14
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 4:9
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Matthew 7:14
How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
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Psalms 60:3
You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
Zechariah 2:8
For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 12:2
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
Acts 26:14
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
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Psalms 74:17
You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
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Psalms 95:9
when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
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.”
Psalms 95:11
Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
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Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
Proverbs 15:3
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
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Proverbs 10:9
He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 11:13
One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11:26
People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 13:7
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Proverbs 14:25
A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
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Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a worthy woman? For her value is far above rubies.
Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
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Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
Isaiah 57:21
“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
Jeremiah 31:30
But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
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Jeremiah 49:19
“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
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Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Psalms 11:6
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 18:26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psalms 18:27
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
Proverbs 15:10
There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked; whoever guards his soul stays from them.
Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
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Hosea 10:7
Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.
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Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Matthew 13:5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
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Luke 23:47
When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
Acts 27:43
But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
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Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 14:35
The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
Proverbs 16:20
He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 24:4
by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
Proverbs 24:5
A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
Daniel 1:21
Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Acts 7:10
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
1 Corinthians 14:25
And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
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Acts 28:2
The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
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Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
Romans 7:21
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
John 8:36
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
Romans 6:16
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Romans 6:21
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Ephesians 2:1
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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