Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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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,
Exodus 20:24
You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
1 Chronicles 21:26
David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
Psalms 119:108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
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.
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Hebrews 9:22
According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
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Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
Psalms 147:10
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
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 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Exodus 10:9
Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”
Exodus 10:24
Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
Exodus 10:25
Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
Exodus 10:26
Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
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Exodus 27:1
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27:2
You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
Exodus 27:3
You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
Exodus 27:4
You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
Exodus 27:5
You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27:6
You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
Exodus 27:7
Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
Exodus 27:8
You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
2 Kings 18:22
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’
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Leviticus 7:11
“ ‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh:
Leviticus 7:15
The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
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Leviticus 11:10
All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
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Leviticus 11:34
All food which may be eaten which is soaked in water shall be unclean. All drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
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Leviticus 22:17
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
Deuteronomy 12:8
You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
Deuteronomy 12:9
for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,
Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 12:13
Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
Deuteronomy 12:14
but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Hebrews 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
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Deuteronomy 17:1
You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Deuteronomy 18:11
or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy 18:12
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
Isaiah 8:19
When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
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Judges 15:8
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
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Genesis 18:23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:30
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 18:32
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
Judges 6:39
Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”
1 Samuel 7:8
The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 7:9
Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.
Job 23:4
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Psalms 99:9
Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
Jeremiah 15:1
Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
Ezekiel 22:30
“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
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.
1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
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2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
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2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”
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2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
1 Kings 1:9
Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;
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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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Deuteronomy 26:14
I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
Nehemiah 8:9
Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
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.”
Nehemiah 8:11
So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”
Nehemiah 8:12
All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Malachi 2:12
Yahweh will cut off the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2:13
“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
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Job 4:6
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Job 4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
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Genesis 20:7
Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
Genesis 20:17
Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
Genesis 29:31
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
1 Samuel 5:11
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 5:12
The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Ezra 6:10
that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
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.”
Job 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
Job 42:10
Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Acts 3:24
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, also told of these days.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brothers, pray for us.
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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.
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Psalms 33:1
Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.
Psalms 135:3
Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
Psalms 147:1
Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
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Psalms 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Psalms 50:13
Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,
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.
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2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
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 66:20
Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
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.
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 64:7
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Isaiah 66:2
For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
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.
Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
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 1:8
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
Proverbs 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Proverbs 11:26
People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 13:24
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
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.
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Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Proverbs 10:9
He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
Proverbs 11:8
A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises 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 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
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Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
Song of Solomon 8:13
You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Beloved
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Proverbs 15:3
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:10
There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die.
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the motives.
Jeremiah 17:10
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
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1 Samuel 14:18
Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.
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.
Proverbs 20:22
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
Proverbs 20:23
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
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Proverbs 21:7
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
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Isaiah 13:15
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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Isaiah 42:6
“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,
Isaiah 42:7
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Isaiah 49:8
Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
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Isaiah 50:1
Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
Jeremiah 3:8
I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.
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Isaiah 55:1
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
John 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
John 7:38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:39
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
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Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
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 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
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 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Proverbs 14:25
A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
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1 Kings 3:10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Psalms 91:15
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Jeremiah 33:3
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
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.
Luke 11:9
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:10
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 34:27
because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
Job 8:5
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Acts 9:11
The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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2 Kings 3:13
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
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 8:7
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
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.”
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Proverbs 7:15
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
Ezekiel 20:31
When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!
Ezekiel 20:39
“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Ezekiel 23:29
They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.
Micah 3:7
The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.”
John 13:18
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 13:26
Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27
After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
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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Exodus 23:11
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
Exodus 28:38
It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
Psalms 5:12
For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 69:32
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
Hebrews 4:16
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
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Micah 4:7
and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”
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Micah 4:8
You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come. Yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
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Joshua 7:10
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Haggai 1:5
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’
Haggai 1:7
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1:10
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Haggai 1:11
I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
Haggai 2:10
In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 2:14
Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
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Job 35:12
There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.
Psalms 26:5
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalms 34:17
The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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?”
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.
Acts 10:31
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.
1 John 3:19
And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
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Matthew 7:13
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.
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Matthew 7:14
How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.
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Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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Psalms 40:7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
Matthew 12:7
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.
Hebrews 10:5
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
Hebrews 10:6
You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
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Job 22:22
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:25
The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
Job 22:26
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
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.
Matthew 20:21
He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
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Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Luke 13:26
Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
Luke 13:27
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
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John 1:48
Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
John 1:49
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
John 1:50
Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”
John 1:51
He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
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John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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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:
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
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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2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
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Luke 21:2
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.
Acts 5:1
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
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Psalms 78:36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Proverbs 12:27
The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Isaiah 48:2
for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Hosea 8:3
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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.
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.
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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Isaiah 43:21
the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
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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.
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 33:19
His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 34:16
Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
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.
Ephesians 6:18
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
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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 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
Song of Solomon 4:11
Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Ezekiel 36:37
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
Acts 10:3
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Jude 1:23
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
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1 Kings 17:22
Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Jeremiah 7:27
“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
Jeremiah 11:14
“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
Jeremiah 11:15
What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
James 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against Yahweh his God, for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
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.
Psalms 34:15
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 26:16
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Isaiah 65:24
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
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 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 John 5:14
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
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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Numbers 23:1
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
Jeremiah 7:4
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
Jeremiah 7:12
“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
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 8:2
They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
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.
Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
Revelation 5:8
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 21:27
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
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