Proverbs 21:8
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
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Proverbs 21:8
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
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Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 6:6
Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 7:1
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Job 15:16
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Psalms 58:3
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
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.
Ephesians 2:3
We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
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Genesis 46:3
He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
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Judges 21:8
They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.
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2 Samuel 7:19
This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh, but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!
Psalms 18:27
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Psalms 25:10
All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 40:5
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Psalms 92:5
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 25:3
As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:1
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
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Proverbs 2:12
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 2:14
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Proverbs 2:15
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:29
A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.
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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 21:12
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.
Proverbs 21:21
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.
Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
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Proverbs 28:16
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
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Job 19:27
whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
1 Timothy 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Ezekiel 44:7
in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
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Psalms 1:6
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 146:8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
Jeremiah 44:4
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
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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Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Matthew 12:33
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 1:66
All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.
Luke 2:46
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 2:47
All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
Luke 6:43
“For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
Luke 6:44
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
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2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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2 Corinthians 1:18
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
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Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
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