Proverbs 21:14

Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

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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 5:20
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.

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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 32:21
So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

Genesis 33:4
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 42:6
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

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Genesis 32:14
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Genesis 32:15
thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

Genesis 32:16
He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

Genesis 32:17
He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’

Genesis 32:19
He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

Genesis 43:12
and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 43:13
Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 43:15
The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

2 Samuel 17:28
brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

2 Samuel 17:29
honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Mark 14:10
Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

Mark 14:11
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

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Judges 3:15
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

1 Samuel 10:27
But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

1 Samuel 25:19
She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:20
As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

1 Samuel 25:22
God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

1 Samuel 25:23
When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:24
She fell at his feet and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

1 Samuel 25:25
Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

1 Samuel 25:26
Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

Proverbs 16:14
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

Isaiah 36:16
Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

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1 Samuel 25:29
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.

1 Samuel 25:30
It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

1 Samuel 25:31
that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

1 Samuel 25:32
David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

1 Samuel 25:33
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

1 Samuel 25:34
For indeed, as Yahweh the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

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.

Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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2 Kings 18:24
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kings 18:25
Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ” ’ ”

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Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Jeremiah 32:18
You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

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Proverbs 6:27
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

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Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

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Matthew 6:3
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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