Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
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Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
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Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
Deuteronomy 17:10
You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”
1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”
1 Kings 3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
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Exodus 23:4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
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.
Job 31:29
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
Job 31:30
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Psalms 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Proverbs 24:17
Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
Proverbs 25:22
for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.
Matthew 5:43
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Luke 6:27
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
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Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17:19
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
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Deuteronomy 13:12
If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
Deuteronomy 13:13
certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,
Deuteronomy 17:4
and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
John 7:51
“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
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Deuteronomy 29:28
Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
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1 Samuel 20:12
Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you?
Psalms 139:1
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
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2 Samuel 1:5
David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
Proverbs 14:15
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
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.
1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Proverbs 28:2
In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
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2 Chronicles 6:18
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
Job 22:12
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 35:5
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Psalms 103:11
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
Psalms 148:13
Let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Psalms 66:16
Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
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1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Job 11:9
Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Psalms 77:19
Your way was through the sea, your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
Isaiah 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”
Matthew 24:36
“But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Romans 11:34
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
Romans 11:36
For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
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Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
Proverbs 3:4
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 21:12
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
Proverbs 26:10
As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.
Proverbs 30:5
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Proverbs 30:9
lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
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Proverbs 11:14
Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
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Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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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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Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
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Ezekiel 4:15
Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
Ezekiel 4:17
that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Ezekiel 5:17
I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”
Ezekiel 6:1
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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Song of Solomon 7:1
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
Hosea 2:15
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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Acts 7:60
He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
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.
Romans 12:19
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:20
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
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