Matthew 2:8
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
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Matthew 2:8
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
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Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
Genesis 34:14
and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Genesis 34:15
Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,
Genesis 34:16
then will we give our daughters to you; and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
Genesis 34:17
But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”
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Exodus 1:16
and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
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Joshua 2:7
The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
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1 Samuel 28:21
The woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
2 Kings 6:11
The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
Job 18:7
The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Job 18:9
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
Job 18:10
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
Job 18:11
Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
Psalms 48:4
For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
Psalms 48:5
They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.
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1 Samuel 16:2
Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’
2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
1 Kings 21:9
She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Luke 20:47
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
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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2 Kings 8:4
Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
John 9:27
He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
Acts 24:24
After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Psalms 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 2:8
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
Psalms 89:27
I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Luke 20:14
“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
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.
Hebrews 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Psalms 41:6
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
Psalms 140:1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men:
Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 15:3
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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1 Samuel 23:22
Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Psalms 33:10
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Psalms 33:11
The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Psalms 83:4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
Matthew 27:63
saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Matthew 27:64
Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
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Song of Solomon 6:1
Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved
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Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Isaiah 7:6
“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
Isaiah 7:7
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Acts 4:17
But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
Acts 4:18
They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
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Isaiah 57:21
“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
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Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
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Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”
Micah 5:2
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
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Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
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Matthew 14:9
The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
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Matthew 28:2
Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky and came and rolled away the stone from the door and sat on it.
Matthew 28:3
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
Matthew 28:4
For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.
Matthew 28:5
The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.
Matthew 28:6
He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.
John 20:18
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
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Luke 2:18
All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
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Luke 9:9
Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.
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Luke 23:8
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
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.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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John 11:11
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
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Luke 1:3
it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
Acts 18:28
for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
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Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
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Revelation 2:28
and I will give him the morning star.
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