Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.
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Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.
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Genesis 41:42
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
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Genesis 44:5
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”
Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
2 Samuel 23:4
shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
Psalms 45:6
Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
Psalms 72:4
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isaiah 32:1
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
Isaiah 32:2
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 23:5
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
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Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17:19
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deuteronomy 17:20
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
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Numbers 23:28
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
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,
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
Acts 16:16
As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
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1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
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1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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2 Chronicles 26:18
They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles 29:19
Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”
Nehemiah 1:8
“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
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Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Proverbs 8:18
With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
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Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
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Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
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Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:26
A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Proverbs 25:5
Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
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Job 34:12
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
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.
Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
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Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
Ecclesiastes 7:28
which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.
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Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.
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Proverbs 26:10
As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.
Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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Isaiah 3:3
the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Isaiah 28:6
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
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Hosea 10:4
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
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Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
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Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
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Acts 12:22
The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
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Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
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Psalms 32:9
Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
Psalms 34:13
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
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1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men,
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Proverbs 21:24
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
Proverbs 22:24
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
James 2:12
So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
James 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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