Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
Isaiah 28:26
For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.
Ezekiel 13:17
You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 13:18
and say, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?
Ezekiel 13:20
“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against your magic bands, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms. I will let the souls fly free, even the souls whom you ensnare like birds.
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Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
Ezekiel 12:19
Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
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Exodus 17:7
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
Exodus 23:21
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
Joshua 22:31
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”
Acts 7:37
This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
Acts 7:38
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
Acts 7:39
to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
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Numbers 18:20
Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
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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.
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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.
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Deuteronomy 18:2
They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
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Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh. ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?” or, “Who would enter into our homes?”
Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’
Jeremiah 49:5
Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.
Jeremiah 49:16
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
Lamentations 4:12
The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
Obadiah 1:4
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
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2 Samuel 5:6
The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here,” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”
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2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.
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1 Kings 12:28
So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
2 Kings 10:16
He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:29
However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin—the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
Psalms 78:34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78:36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
Acts 19:15
The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
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2 Chronicles 15:3
Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
2 Chronicles 17:8
and with them Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
2 Chronicles 17:9
They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.
Nehemiah 8:9
Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
Ezekiel 44:21
None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel 44:22
They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Matthew 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
Matthew 2:5
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
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2 Kings 16:15
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
2 Chronicles 27:2
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.
2 Chronicles 28:24
Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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Esther 3:10
The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
Esther 3:11
The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
Esther 3:12
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
Jeremiah 48:2
The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.
Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
Daniel 6:9
Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
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Job 1:9
Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Job 1:10
Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
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Job 4:8
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
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1 Kings 22:13
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
1 Kings 22:14
Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
Job 32:22
For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.
Job 34:19
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.
Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
Matthew 22:16
They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone.
Luke 20:21
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
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.
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Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 25:1
To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.
Psalms 25:5
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
1 Peter 3:9
not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
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Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 33:9
He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
Job 32:21
Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
Mark 12:14
When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
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Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
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Leviticus 13:29
“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
1 Kings 8:38
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
2 Chronicles 6:29
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house,
Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
Psalms 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Isaiah 1:5
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.
James 2:7
Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
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Psalms 106:38
They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
Jeremiah 2:30
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Lamentations 4:14
They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.
Ezekiel 35:6
therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.
Joel 3:19
Egypt will be a desolation and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
Zechariah 7:10
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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Proverbs 30:15
“The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough!’:
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Proverbs 30:16
Sheol, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough!’
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Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:9
He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Zephaniah 3:5
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
Zephaniah 3:8
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
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Psalms 78:32
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
Isaiah 9:19
Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
Isaiah 9:20
One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating Manasseh, and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:3
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 10:4
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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2 Chronicles 32:8
An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Isaiah 10:20
It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:4
Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
Isaiah 36:6
Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
John 13:23
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.
Ephesians 1:12
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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Isaiah 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Isaiah 5:19
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Isaiah 28:9
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Isaiah 57:21
“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
Amos 5:18
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Acts 5:21
When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest and those who were with him came and called the council together, with all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
1 Corinthians 4:8
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
Revelation 18:12
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
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Isaiah 41:6
Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
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Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
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Isaiah 45:25
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
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.
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 2:20
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Romans 2:22
You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Romans 2:27
Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
Romans 4:12
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
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2 Kings 15:27
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
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.
Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Ezekiel 22:2
“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
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 2:9
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
Psalms 10:2
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
Psalms 26:9
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men
Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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.
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
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Isaiah 66:5
Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Matthew 21:13
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.
Acts 4:7
When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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Deuteronomy 32:37
He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
Deuteronomy 32:38
which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
Jeremiah 2:28
“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
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Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
Jeremiah 3:5
“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”
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Job 8:20
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
Psalms 5:5
The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
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.
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:5
Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
Ezekiel 22:14
Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
Hosea 9:15
“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
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Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.
Isaiah 11:13
The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
Jeremiah 5:29
“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 11:15
What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Hosea 5:2
The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Micah 1:3
For behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
Micah 2:8
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
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Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
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.
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Jeremiah 23:18
For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah 23:20
Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
Hebrews 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
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Jeremiah 23:21
I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 23:31
Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’
Jeremiah 29:9
For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 13:4
Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
Ezekiel 13:5
You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.
Ezekiel 14:3
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:7
“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
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,
Micah 2:11
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:8
“ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 29:17
Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.
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Jeremiah 27:2
Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.
Jeremiah 27:3
Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah 27:4
Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:
Jeremiah 27:5
‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.
Jeremiah 27:6
Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
Jeremiah 27:8
“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:11
But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’ ” ’ ”
Jeremiah 27:12
I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
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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.
Jeremiah 28:7
Nevertheless listen now to this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:
Jeremiah 28:8
The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah 28:9
As for prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.”
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Nehemiah 6:12
I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Jeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Jeremiah 29:21
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes.
Ezekiel 12:24
For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 13:23
Therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
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Ezekiel 9:3
The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.
Ezekiel 10:4
Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.
Ezekiel 10:18
Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim.
Ezekiel 11:1
Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel 11:23
Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
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Ezekiel 21:29
while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Amos 2:12
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
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Isaiah 56:9
All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest.
Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:2
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:10
The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”
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Deuteronomy 23:14
for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
Ezekiel 48:35
“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’
Micah 4:3
and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
Zephaniah 3:15
Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zechariah 2:5
For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
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Nehemiah 9:34
Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
Jeremiah 32:32
because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:8
Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
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Ezekiel 19:3
She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:4
The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:5
“ ‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 19:6
He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
Hosea 7:2
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Hosea 7:7
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
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Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 6:9
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Micah 6:11
Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
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Haggai 2:12
‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”
Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
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Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells fortunes, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
Psalms 9:16
Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 33:5
Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 57:17
I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.
Ezekiel 45:9
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough you, princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord Yahweh.
Zechariah 7:9
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
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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1 Samuel 2:11
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Hosea 4:8
They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to Yahweh.
Micah 6:14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says Yahweh of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Malachi 1:7
You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
Malachi 1:8
When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 1:12
“But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Malachi 2:1
“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
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Numbers 23:4
God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:7
Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’ ”
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Matthew 20:11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
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Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
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Matthew 9:35
Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Matthew 10:35
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
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Judges 17:2
He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”
Judges 17:13
Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
1 Samuel 22:8
Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Psalms 99:8
You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.
Isaiah 28:15
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
John 9:22
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
1 Peter 4:4
They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
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Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
1 John 2:4
One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
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Ezekiel 33:13
When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
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John 8:33
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
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John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 11:48
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
John 11:49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 11:51
Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11:52
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
John 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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Acts 4:1
As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
Acts 4:2
being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:3
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Acts 4:4
But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Acts 5:17
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
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Jeremiah 7:14
therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Jeremiah 7:15
I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 26:18
“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’
Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
Ezekiel 7:21
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
Ezekiel 7:24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
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.
Mark 13:2
Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”
Acts 6:13
and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
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Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
Acts 8:19
saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
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Acts 27:23
For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
Acts 27:24
saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
Acts 27:25
Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
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Romans 2:18
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
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Deuteronomy 29:19
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
Job 31:24
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Micah 5:1
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
Zephaniah 1:12
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
Zechariah 11:5
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
2 Timothy 2:25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
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2 Corinthians 8:6
So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
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2 Corinthians 8:7
But as you abound in everything—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us—see that you also abound in this grace.
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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.”
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
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Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
1 Timothy 1:12
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
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Acts 22:3
“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
Acts 22:4
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Acts 26:9
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:10
I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Timothy 1:14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
1 Timothy 1:16
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
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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 22:11
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’ ”
1 Kings 22:19
Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22:20
Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing, and another said another.
1 Kings 22:21
A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
1 Kings 22:22
Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
1 Kings 22:23
Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
Jeremiah 5:30
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
Titus 1:12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Hebrews 12:28
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
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Hebrews 12:29
for our God is a consuming fire.
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Isaiah 9:15
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
Jeremiah 21:2
“Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may withdraw from us.”
Jeremiah 23:16
Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Jeremiah 29:8
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Jeremiah 29:31
“Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,”
Ezekiel 13:2
“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word:
Micah 3:6
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
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