Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
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Genesis 18:1
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:22
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
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Genesis 42:22
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
2 Chronicles 6:22
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house,
1 Corinthians 8:12
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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Exodus 21:33
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
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Numbers 16:15
Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
John 4:1
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2
(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
John 4:3
he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
John 4:11
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
Romans 11:2
God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
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1 Samuel 19:6
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19:15
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 22:13
Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
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1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
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1 Samuel 23:5
David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
1 Samuel 25:16
They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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1 Samuel 24:18
You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.
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1 Samuel 24:19
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
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1 Kings 5:16
besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
1 Kings 5:18
Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
1 Kings 18:42
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.
1 Kings 18:44
On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”
1 Kings 18:45
In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
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2 Chronicles 20:11
behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
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Nehemiah 4:4
“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Nehemiah 4:5
Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
Nehemiah 6:14
“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.”
Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
Psalms 36:12
There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Psalms 140:6
I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
Psalms 140:7
Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalms 140:8
Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
Psalms 140:11
An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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Job 30:20
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
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Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
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Psalms 7:1
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalms 7:2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 7:3
Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 7:5
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 35:19
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 35:20
For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalms 59:4
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
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Psalms 94:13
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
2 Peter 3:6
by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
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Psalms 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
Proverbs 28:10
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
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Nehemiah 5:19
Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 13:22
I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this also, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Nehemiah 13:31
and for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Psalms 20:3
remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10:31
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
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Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deuteronomy 19:17
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy 29:10
All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
1 Kings 19:11
He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
Jeremiah 7:10
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
Jeremiah 35:19
therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’ ”
Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”
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Jeremiah 11:5
that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then I answered, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 28:3
Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 11:21
“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand’—
Jeremiah 11:22
therefore Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.
Jeremiah 11:23
There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”
Jeremiah 26:8
When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
Amos 2:12
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
2 Timothy 4:15
Beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.
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Jeremiah 13:15
Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
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Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
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Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Proverbs 29:10
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
Jeremiah 14:17
“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”
Amos 5:1
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
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Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
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Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Jeremiah 18:10
if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.
Ezekiel 14:14
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 14:15
“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals—
Ezekiel 14:16
though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
Ezekiel 14:17
“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—
Ezekiel 14:18
though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.
Ezekiel 14:19
“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—
Ezekiel 14:20
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
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Jeremiah 28:6
even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.
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Proverbs 3:29
Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Proverbs 6:18
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
Proverbs 16:29
A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.
Proverbs 16:30
One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
John 17:9
I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
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Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 55:15
Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
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Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
1 Samuel 15:35
Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 16:1
Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luke 13:34
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Acts 7:55
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
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 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men,
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Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
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.
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 3:17
For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil.
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1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
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2 Samuel 10:3
But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
Job 21:27
“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Jeremiah 40:13
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Matthew 9:4
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
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Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
Revelation 18:20
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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