Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
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Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
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Genesis 14:13
One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 49:29
He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Romans 12:6
having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
Romans 12:7
or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
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Genesis 50:17
‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Psalms 106:16
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
Psalms 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Psalms 106:18
A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
Psalms 106:20
Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
Psalms 106:22
wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
Luke 23:47
When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
Luke 23:48
All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
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Leviticus 19:14
“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 27:18
‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Romans 14:13
Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
1 Corinthians 8:11
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:12
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
1 Samuel 26:9
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
1 Samuel 26:10
David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
1 Samuel 26:11
Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
2 Samuel 1:14
David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
1 Kings 21:3
Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:33
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
Proverbs 24:19
Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;
Ezekiel 25:12
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them,”
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2 Kings 2:24
He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of those youths.
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Psalms 23:3
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
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Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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2 Chronicles 28:10
Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?
Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 3:14
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
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Psalms 69:22
Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
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Exodus 23:4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Leviticus 19:18
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Proverbs 17:13
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 20:22
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
Proverbs 24:29
Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
Matthew 5:39
But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:43
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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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 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
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.
Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
Jeremiah 7:10
then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?
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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Matthew 6:28
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
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Luke 6:32
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:33
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
Luke 6:36
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
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Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
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Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
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Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Mark 11:21
Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
2 Peter 1:7
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Luke 6:29
To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
Jude 1:9
But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
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James 3:11
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
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Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
2 Timothy 3:11
persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
James 2:7
Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
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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Exodus 8:12
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
Exodus 8:13
Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
Numbers 12:13
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”
1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
1 Kings 13:6
The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
James 5:16
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
James 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
Revelation 1:9
I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
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