Proverbs 22:11
He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
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Proverbs 22:11
He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
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Genesis 49:21
“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
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Deuteronomy 33:23
About Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of Yahweh’s blessing, Possess the west and the south.”
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1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
1 Chronicles 29:18
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
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 18:26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Matthew 6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16:16
When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
1 Chronicles 27:33
Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.
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2 Samuel 19:37
Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
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2 Samuel 19:38
The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
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1 Kings 18:3
Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
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1 Kings 18:12
It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
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2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
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Ezra 7:21
I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,
Ezra 7:22
up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Ezra 7:23
Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra 7:24
Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.
Ezra 7:25
You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
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Job 17:10
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.
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Psalms 15:1
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
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Psalms 24:3
Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
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Psalms 46:5
God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
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Psalms 65:5
By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.
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Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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Psalms 101:7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
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Psalms 119:63
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
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Proverbs 5:11
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
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Proverbs 14:35
The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
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Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
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Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22:4
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
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Proverbs 22:12
Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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Proverbs 24:15
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
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Proverbs 31:26
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.
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Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
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Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;
Daniel 6:2
and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.
Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Matthew 25:1
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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John 7:46
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
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John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
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John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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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 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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