Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Deuteronomy 4:4
But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Ruth 1:14
They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
2 Samuel 15:21
Ittai answered the king and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Isaiah 14:1
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Zechariah 8:23
Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
Acts 11:25
Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
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Genesis 14:22
Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 21:27
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
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Genesis 24:49
Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”
Numbers 10:29
Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
Numbers 10:30
He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”
Numbers 10:31
Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
Numbers 10:32
It shall be, if you go with us—yes, it shall be—that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.”
Joshua 2:14
The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
Joshua 6:17
The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Joshua 6:25
But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Judges 1:24
The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
Judges 1:25
He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.
1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
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Genesis 49:5
“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
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Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Ecclesiastes 4:11
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
Luke 10:30
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luke 10:31
By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Luke 10:33
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
Luke 10:34
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:35
On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’
Luke 10:36
Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”
Luke 10:37
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
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Ruth 4:15
He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
1 Samuel 1:8
Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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1 Samuel 23:16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
2 Samuel 9:2
There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”
2 Samuel 9:3
The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”
2 Samuel 9:4
The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”
2 Samuel 9:5
Then king David sent and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
2 Samuel 9:6
Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth?” He answered, “Behold, your servant!”
2 Samuel 9:7
David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”
2 Samuel 9:8
He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
2 Samuel 9:10
Till the land for him—you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
2 Samuel 9:11
Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table like one of the king’s sons.
2 Samuel 9:12
Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All who lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 9:13
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.
Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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2 Samuel 14:19
The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
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2 Samuel 15:32
When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head.
2 Samuel 15:33
David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
2 Samuel 15:34
but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’
2 Samuel 15:35
Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
2 Samuel 15:36
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”
2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16:17
Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
2 Samuel 19:25
When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
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2 Kings 8:13
Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
Psalms 30:6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Jeremiah 10:23
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Mark 14:31
But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
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Job 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 16:20
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
Job 19:14
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:19
All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Job 19:21
“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:11
Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Psalms 41:9
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
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Psalms 22:22
I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 2:16
For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:18
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
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Psalms 23:1
Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
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Proverbs 14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
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 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.
Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
Jeremiah 38:22
‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
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Proverbs 18:3
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
Proverbs 18:13
He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
Proverbs 18:18
The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.
Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
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Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
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Proverbs 27:6
The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:17
Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
John 13:1
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
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Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jeremiah 27:18
But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”
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Jeremiah 37:17
then Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought out. The king asked him secretly in his house, “Is there any word from Yahweh?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” He also said, “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
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Lamentations 2:22
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
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Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says Yahweh of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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Matthew 8:19
A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Matthew 8:20
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
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Luke 5:7
They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
Romans 16:2
that you receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
Romans 16:3
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Romans 16:4
who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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2 Samuel 15:15
The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
Luke 22:28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
Luke 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
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John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
John 15:17
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
1 John 3:12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
1 John 3:13
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
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Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:23
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
Acts 23:24
He asked them to provide mounts, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Acts 23:25
He wrote a letter like this:
Acts 23:26
“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
Acts 23:27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
Acts 23:28
Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
Acts 23:29
I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
Acts 23:30
When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”
Acts 23:31
So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23:32
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
Acts 23:33
When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
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Acts 23:34
When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
Acts 23:35
“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
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Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
Proverbs 5:20
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Matthew 12:48
But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
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Acts 17:34
But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Corinthians 7:3
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
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