Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
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Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
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Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Joshua 6:18
But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
Joshua 7:13
Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”
Joshua 7:25
Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
1 Kings 18:18
He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments and you have followed the Baals.
1 Chronicles 2:7
The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
Galatians 5:12
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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Exodus 16:28
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
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Leviticus 5:15
“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
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Numbers 12:8
With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
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Numbers 14:11
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? How long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
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Numbers 21:14
Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
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Numbers 21:27
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
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Numbers 24:23
He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
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Deuteronomy 6:10
It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
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Deuteronomy 6:11
and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
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Deuteronomy 8:17
and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Habakkuk 1:11
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
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Deuteronomy 24:10
When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:11
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 29:22
A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
Ezekiel 5:15
So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—
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Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
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 5:15
Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
Jeremiah 5:17
They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
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Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
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1 Kings 11:9
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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2 Kings 20:14
Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
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2 Kings 18:13
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
2 Kings 18:14
Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
2 Kings 18:15
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house.
2 Kings 18:16
At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:17
The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
2 Chronicles 28:16
At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
2 Chronicles 28:17
For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there.
2 Chronicles 28:19
For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 28:20
Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.
2 Chronicles 28:21
For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
Isaiah 10:5
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
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Job 15:28
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 18:15
There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 20:6
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
Job 20:7
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Job 20:8
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:18
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 10:3
Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
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Job 26:1
Then Job answered,
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Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
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Job 31:39
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
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Psalms 6:4
Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
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Psalms 90:13
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
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Psalms 94:3
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
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Psalms 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Isaiah 44:13
The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
Isaiah 44:14
He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.
Isaiah 44:15
Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
Isaiah 44:16
He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
Isaiah 44:17
The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
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Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Proverbs 21:7
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
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!
Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
Jeremiah 45:5
Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh, ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”
Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Amos 6:1
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Zephaniah 1:11
Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Mark 10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
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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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Ecclesiastes 1:15
That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
1 Kings 21:16
When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
2 Kings 5:23
Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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.
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.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Luke 12:15
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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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 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”
Ezekiel 13:3
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
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?
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.
Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.
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Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 17:14
At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
Isaiah 24:16
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
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Isaiah 14:5
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Isaiah 14:6
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
Isaiah 14:7
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
Isaiah 14:8
Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
Isaiah 14:9
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14:10
They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
Isaiah 14:18
All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
Isaiah 47:10
For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
Habakkuk 1:1
The revelation which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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Isaiah 47:12
“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
Isaiah 47:13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
Jeremiah 50:31
“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
Jeremiah 50:32
The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”
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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.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Zephaniah 1:9
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
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Jeremiah 49:1
Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
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Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.
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Ezekiel 21:5
All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’
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Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.
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Daniel 3:4
Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
Daniel 3:5
that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.
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Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Isaiah 14:14
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
Isaiah 14:15
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 14:19
But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Isaiah 47:8
“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 51:53
Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Daniel 5:23
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
Daniel 11:36
“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished, for that which is determined will be done.
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Joel 2:7
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
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Ezekiel 35:10
“ ‘ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although Yahweh was there,
Amos 1:13
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
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Micah 2:5
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
Micah 2:6
“Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy— “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
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Micah 4:10
Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
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Nahum 2:9
Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Nahum 2:11
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
Nahum 2:12
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.
Nahum 2:13
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
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Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
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;
Ezekiel 16:44
“ ‘ “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Zechariah 9:3
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
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Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
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;
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.
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
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Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
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Isaiah 13:19
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 45:3
I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:13
You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
Daniel 4:22
it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
Revelation 18:11
The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more:
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;
Revelation 18:13
and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
Revelation 18:14
The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
Revelation 18:15
The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,
Revelation 18:16
saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
Revelation 18:17
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
Revelation 18:20
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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