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?’
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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?’
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Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 4:7
If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
1 Samuel 15:13
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
2 Kings 5:25
But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah 2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Malachi 2:13
“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Acts 5:8
Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
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Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Isaiah 45:10
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’ ”
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Genesis 34:7
The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
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Genesis 41:43
He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.
2 Kings 2:12
Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
2 Kings 5:13
His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”
2 Kings 6:21
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”
2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
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Exodus 4:13
Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
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Exodus 21:15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:17
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
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Leviticus 18:21
“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 19:12
“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
Ezekiel 16:20
“ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:21
that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
Ezekiel 23:38
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
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.
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Leviticus 19:30
“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 20:13
“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:21
“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:24
because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 22:8
You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
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Numbers 15:30
“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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Numbers 15:31
Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”
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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.
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?
Mark 12:17
Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.
Luke 7:40
Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”
Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
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.
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
Deuteronomy 16:2
You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:6
but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 15:21
If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
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Deuteronomy 17:1
You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
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Judges 9:10
“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
Isaiah 42:1
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
John 5:22
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
John 8:49
Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
John 13:31
When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
John 13:32
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
John 17:4
I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
John 17:5
Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
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1 Samuel 2:17
The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
1 Samuel 2:28
Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Jeremiah 23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
Hosea 4:7
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:9
It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
Micah 3:12
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
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.
Malachi 2:5
“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
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1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
Job 31:33
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
Job 40:8
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Proverbs 30:20
“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
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.
Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:31
Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?
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.’
Jeremiah 48:10
“Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
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Nehemiah 10:37
and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all our farming villages.
Nehemiah 12:47
All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah 13:10
I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
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Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
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.”
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Psalms 135:3
Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
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Psalms 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
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Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
Proverbs 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
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Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
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Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
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Genesis 16:9
Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Job 1:5
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
Daniel 4:34
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Luke 6:36
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
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Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
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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.
Deuteronomy 9:22
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
Deuteronomy 9:23
When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
Psalms 78:53
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 100:3
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Isaiah 44:2
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
Jeremiah 2:6
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Amos 2:13
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
1 Samuel 2:13
The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel 2:14
and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
1 Samuel 2:15
Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
1 Samuel 2:16
If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
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.
1 Samuel 2:23
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
Jeremiah 23:17
They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’
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 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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Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
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2 Samuel 12:14
However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
Ezekiel 36:21
But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
Ezekiel 36:22
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
Ezekiel 36:23
I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
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Daniel 3:16
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
Daniel 3:17
If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Daniel 3:18
But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
Daniel 6:11
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Daniel 6:20
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
Daniel 6:21
Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!
Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
Daniel 6:23
Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
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Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”
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Micah 1:5
“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?
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Jeremiah 2:9
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
Jeremiah 2:10
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
Jeremiah 2:12
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Micah 4:5
Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
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Malachi 3:2
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
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Malachi 3:3
and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
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Joshua 24:3
I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
Ezekiel 33:24
“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
Matthew 3:9
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Luke 1:73
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
Luke 3:8
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
John 8:39
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:53
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
Acts 7:2
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Romans 9:10
Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
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Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:15
But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:18
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
Luke 11:2
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Luke 12:30
For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
Colossians 1:2
to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
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Matthew 11:10
For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Mark 1:2
As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
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Psalms 50:23
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Psalms 111:9
He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
Isaiah 44:8
Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”
Matthew 22:21
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
Mark 12:30
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Ephesians 4:6
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
1 Peter 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
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Matthew 23:10
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
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Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
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Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
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Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
Malachi 3:15
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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Jeremiah 35:17
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’ ”
Jeremiah 35:18
Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you,’
Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
Mark 7:11
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,” ’ ” that is to say, given to God,
Mark 7:12
“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
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Luke 11:19
But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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Luke 13:26
Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
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Luke 13:27
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
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Luke 15:11
He said, “A certain man had two sons.
Luke 15:12
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
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 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
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Matthew 26:23
He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.
John 13:21
When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
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John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
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John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
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Matthew 23:8
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
Matthew 26:49
Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.
Mark 14:45
When he had come, immediately he came to him and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
John 20:16
Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
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Luke 7:8
For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
Acts 10:7
When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
Acts 10:8
Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Ephesians 6:6
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Ephesians 6:7
with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,
Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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John 8:35
A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
John 14:3
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Galatians 3:25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
1 John 2:13
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
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Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Jeremiah 16:10
It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
Malachi 2:16
One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
Romans 9:4
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Romans 11:11
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Romans 6:13
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:15
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
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2 Samuel 12:9
Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalms 90:11
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
Isaiah 8:13
Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
Isaiah 42:8
“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Acts 13:41
‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
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1 Corinthians 10:15
I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
1 Corinthians 11:14
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
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1 Corinthians 11:13
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
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Isaiah 9:16
For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
Jeremiah 5:30
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
Jeremiah 13:13
Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
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 6:9
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
1 Corinthians 11:29
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
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Galatians 1:21
Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
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Exodus 4:23
and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”
John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
1 Peter 1:15
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,
1 Peter 1:16
because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
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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 Peter 2:14
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
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