Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
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Genesis 3:9
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 16:8
He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 2:18
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
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Genesis 16:9
Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
Genesis 32:4
He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
Exodus 2:15
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
Ephesians 5:21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
Ephesians 6:6
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Titus 2:9
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.
1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
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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 33:3
He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
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.
Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
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Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
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Judges 15:7
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 18:3
All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
Isaiah 18:4
For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Isaiah 42:13
Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
Isaiah 42:14
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Isaiah 42:15
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 48:14
“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 51:22
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
Isaiah 51:23
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
Jeremiah 51:48
Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51:49
“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
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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 25:25
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 25:27
Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
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.
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 25:35
So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice and have granted your request.”
1 Samuel 25:36
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
1 Samuel 25:37
In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel 25:38
About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
1 Samuel 25:39
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
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1 Samuel 25:40
When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”
1 Samuel 25:41
She arose and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
1 Samuel 25:42
Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
1 Samuel 25:43
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.
1 Samuel 25:44
Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
Psalms 73:21
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
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1 Kings 12:6
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
Job 12:12
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
Proverbs 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,
Jeremiah 42:3
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.
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2 Chronicles 21:16
Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;
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Psalms 18:8
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
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Psalms 18:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
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Psalms 78:21
Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
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Esther 4:8
He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.
Job 9:15
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
Psalms 109:7
When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
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Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
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1 Kings 20:10
Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
1 Kings 20:11
The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”
Psalms 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 16:32
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 25:9
Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,
Proverbs 25:10
lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
Daniel 3:20
He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:21
Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
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Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
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Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
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Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
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Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Isaiah 27:5
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
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Jeremiah 14:9
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
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Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Proverbs 14:35
The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’
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Isaiah 22:19
I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
Ezekiel 16:63
that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Zechariah 1:15
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
Revelation 18:21
A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
Revelation 18:22
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman of whatever craft will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
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Daniel 2:4
Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
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Daniel 2:7
They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
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Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
Daniel 3:22
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
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Hosea 11:10
They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
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2 Samuel 15:3
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
2 Samuel 15:5
It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 19:19
He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
Zechariah 1:13
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,
Ecclesiastes 8:4
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
Jeremiah 27:17
Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
Matthew 22:21
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
Matthew 23:3
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Romans 13:5
Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
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Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
Romans 13:6
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
1 Timothy 2:2
for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
1 Peter 2:14
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
1 Peter 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
1 Peter 2:17
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
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1 Kings 20:32
So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ ” He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
John 8:3
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:25
For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
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