Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
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Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
Psalms 49:5
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
Acts 11:29
As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
1 Corinthians 7:26
Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7:30
and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
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Numbers 17:12
The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!
2 Kings 6:33
While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
Ezekiel 24:21
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
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Judges 16:17
He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Proverbs 12:16
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
Proverbs 14:33
Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
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Judges 18:19
They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
Job 21:5
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Proverbs 30:32
“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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2 Samuel 1:20
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
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2 Kings 18:26
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
2 Kings 18:36
But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
2 Kings 18:37
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.
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Nehemiah 2:12
I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.
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Esther 4:11
“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
Proverbs 24:10
If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
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?
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Job 2:13
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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Job 31:39
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psalms 38:15
For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Matthew 27:12
When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Matthew 27:14
He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
Mark 15:3
The chief priests accused him of many things.
Mark 15:4
Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”
Mark 15:5
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
Luke 22:67
“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,
Luke 22:68
and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
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Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Acts 13:7
who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
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Job 32:16
Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Isaiah 42:2
He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
Isaiah 42:3
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
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.
John 7:10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 11:54
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
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Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
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Isaiah 4:4
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
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Isaiah 14:1
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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Amos 3:11
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
Amos 4:12
“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Amos 5:3
For the Lord Yahweh says: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”
Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
Amos 5:5
but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
Amos 5:9
who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.
Amos 5:17
In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
Amos 5:27
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
Amos 6:3
Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
Amos 6:7
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.
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Micah 1:10
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
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Isaiah 37:3
They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Zephaniah 2:2
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
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Matthew 7:3
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Matthew 7:4
Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
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Matthew 7:10
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
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John 4:25
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
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Amos 7:12
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
Amos 7:16
Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
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1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
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.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
John 7:7
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
2 Timothy 3:1
But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
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Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
Acts 19:37
For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
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1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Ephesians 6:15
and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,
Colossians 4:4
that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
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James 2:12
So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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