Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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Genesis 31:38
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
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Genesis 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
1 Peter 2:4
Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
1 Peter 2:7
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
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Exodus 9:20
Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Mark 13:14
“But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
Mark 13:15
and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.
Mark 13:16
Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
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Deuteronomy 4:5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
1 Kings 3:10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings 3:11
God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice,
1 Kings 3:12
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 7:4
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17
that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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1 Chronicles 22:12
May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
2 Chronicles 1:10
Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
2 Chronicles 1:11
God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,
2 Chronicles 1:12
therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you, and none after you will have.”
Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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2 Chronicles 25:9
Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”
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.
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
2 Corinthians 9:11
you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.
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Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 18:24
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 37:27
Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
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 3:7
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 60:17
For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
2 Timothy 2:19
However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
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Proverbs 14:22
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
Proverbs 20:28
Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
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Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
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Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:19
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.
Proverbs 16:20
He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Acts 3:6
But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
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Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 12:15
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Philippians 3:7
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
Ecclesiastes 8:17
then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
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Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
Ecclesiastes 12:9
Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
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.
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Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
Psalms 36:7
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
Psalms 92:5
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
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.
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
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Jonah 3:5
The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
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Jonah 3:6
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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Psalms 12:6
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Psalms 66:10
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Ezekiel 22:18
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Daniel 2:32
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
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.’ ”
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Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 68:13
while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Daniel 9:25
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
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Proverbs 8:21
that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Luke 16:11
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luke 18:30
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
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,
1 Corinthians 3:23
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
Revelation 2:9
“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 21:7
He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
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Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor and some for dishonor.
1 Peter 3:11
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
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Luke 16:12
If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
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1 Chronicles 29:19
and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
Psalms 119:144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 15:32
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Colossians 2:3
in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
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Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Psalms 37:16
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
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.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
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Proverbs 11:19
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
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