Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
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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 20:24
You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
Exodus 27:1
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27:2
You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
Exodus 27:3
You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
Exodus 27:4
You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
Exodus 27:5
You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27:6
You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
Exodus 27:7
Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
Exodus 27:8
You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
Numbers 23:1
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2 Kings 18:22
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’
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Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
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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.”
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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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 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”
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1 Kings 21:10
Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
1 Kings 21:11
The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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2 Kings 10:16
He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zechariah 13:4
It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive,
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 23:5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Matthew 23:30
and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
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Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
Proverbs 15:25
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
Acts 9:41
He gave her his hand and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
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Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
Micah 2:8
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
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.
Habakkuk 1:13
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Habakkuk 3:14
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
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.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
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Psalms 50:8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 50:9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Isaiah 61:8
“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”
Jeremiah 7:21
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
Jeremiah 7:23
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
Amos 5:22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Psalms 109:7
When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
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Proverbs 7:14
“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
Proverbs 7:15
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
Ezekiel 20:39
“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Ezekiel 23:29
They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
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.
Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
John 13:18
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 13:26
Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27
After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
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Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Job 24:6
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 20:17
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
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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Proverbs 24:17
Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
Proverbs 24:19
Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;
Proverbs 24:20
for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
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Proverbs 28:10
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
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Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
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.”
Luke 12:16
He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
Luke 12:17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
Luke 12:18
He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Luke 12:23
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
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Isaiah 9:14
Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.
Isaiah 9:15
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
Hosea 4:5
You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
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Isaiah 32:5
The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
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Psalms 93:5
Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Ezekiel 43:12
“This is the law of the house. On the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Mark 11:17
He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”
Luke 19:46
saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”
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1 Kings 18:26
They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
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 2:30
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
Matthew 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
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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Isaiah 48:2
for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Jeremiah 7:3
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Jeremiah 7:4
Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
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.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Romans 2:17
Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
Romans 2:18
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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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 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Habakkuk 2:10
You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
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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 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!
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Ezekiel 13:3
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 16:23
“ ‘ “It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh—
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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.
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 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Revelation 8:13
I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the other blasts of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”
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Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
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Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
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.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
Job 13:16
This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
Job 31:3
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 9:17
“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
Hosea 7:13
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.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Acts 13:10
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:2
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Ezekiel 34:10
The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”
Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
John 10:1
“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 10:10
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Acts 20:29
For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
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Malachi 2:12
Yahweh will cut off the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 9:11
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 10:24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
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 23:9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
Acts 13:1
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
1 Corinthians 12:28
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
Ephesians 4:11
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2 Timothy 1:11
For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
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Psalms 17:1
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
Psalms 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Matthew 6:8
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.
1 John 3:20
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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Matthew 7:1
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
Matthew 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
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Matthew 12:10
And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” so that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:11
He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it and lift it out?
Matthew 12:12
Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”
Matthew 12:13
Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
Matthew 12:14
But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew 12:22
Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
Matthew 12:23
All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?”
Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
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Matthew 12:47
One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
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Matthew 12:48
But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
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Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 9:25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
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Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
Matthew 23:6
and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
Matthew 23:7
the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi by men.
Mark 12:38
In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,
Luke 5:33
They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Acts 26:5
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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Luke 6:12
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
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Luke 8:2
and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
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Luke 8:3
and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.
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Luke 11:1
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
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Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
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Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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.
Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
Zechariah 7:10
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Mark 12:37
Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.
John 1:24
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
John 3:1
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
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.”
John 3:10
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?
John 7:47
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
John 8:3
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
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Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:8
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Jeremiah 2:34
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.
Matthew 23:36
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Luke 11:53
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Acts 9:11
The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Jude 1:4
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
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Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
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Zephaniah 2:11
Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
Acts 19:21
Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
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.
2 Corinthians 7:2
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
1 Timothy 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
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Acts 27:30
As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
Philippians 1:14
and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Philippians 1:16
The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
Philippians 1:17
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
Philippians 1:18
What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
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Matthew 15:4
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Matthew 15:5
But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”
Matthew 15:6
he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Matthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
Mark 7:6
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Luke 6:42
Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.
1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
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Ezekiel 13:19
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
Malachi 1:10
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Acts 19:27
Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
1 Corinthians 5:11
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
Revelation 18:12
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
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Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”
Luke 12:47
That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,
Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Romans 13:5
Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
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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