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1 Timothy 1:9
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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Genesis 2:16
Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

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Genesis 9:5
I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Numbers 35:30
“ ‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.

Numbers 35:31
“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:32
“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.

Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Deuteronomy 21:6
All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21:7
They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21:8
Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21:9
So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Proverbs 28:17
A man who is tormented by blood guilt will be a fugitive until death. No one will support him.

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Exodus 21:16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21:21
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 27:16
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 27:24
‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

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Exodus 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

Leviticus 19:36
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

Deuteronomy 25:14
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

Deuteronomy 25:15
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 25:16
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

Proverbs 22:8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Isaiah 10:1
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees

Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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Deuteronomy 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

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Numbers 31:8
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

Joshua 7:24
Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Joshua 7:25
Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

Joshua 7:26
They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Matthew 27:5
He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Acts 5:4
While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

Acts 5:5
Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

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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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2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2 Kings 19:37
As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:21
Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.

Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

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Psalms 45:5
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Zechariah 3:1
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

Zechariah 3:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

Zechariah 3:4
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”

Zechariah 3:5
I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and Yahweh’s angel was standing by.

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Psalms 56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Jeremiah 23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21:25
“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

Matthew 5:38
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

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Leviticus 19:12
“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

Isaiah 48:1
“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Jeremiah 5:2
Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

Jeremiah 23:10
“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

Ezekiel 17:13
He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,

Ezekiel 17:14
that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

Ezekiel 17:15
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

Ezekiel 17:16
“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

Zechariah 8:17
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

Matthew 5:33
“Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Acts 2:21
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Romans 1:32
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

1 Timothy 1:13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Peter 2:1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Matthew 5:35
nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 5:36
Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5:37
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:18
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.

Matthew 23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.

Matthew 23:22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

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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Luke 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

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Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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John 9:24
So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

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Luke 22:37
For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me is being fulfilled.”

Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Colossians 3:6
For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Colossians 3:7
You also once walked in those, when you lived in them,

Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

1 Timothy 1:14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

1 Peter 2:7
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

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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;

Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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.

Romans 7:10
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;

Romans 7:13
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

1 Corinthians 5:10
yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.

1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Romans 2:12
For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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 2:14
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Romans 2:16
in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

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Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Romans 2:22
You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

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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Romans 11:26
and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

2 Peter 1:20
knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Jude 1:18
They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

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Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

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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1 Corinthians 14:22
Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

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Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Luke 5:30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Luke 7:34
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Luke 7:37
Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Luke 19:7
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

John 9:31
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.

Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:15
“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,

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.

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Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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.

Romans 10:4
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

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.

Galatians 3:11
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

1 Timothy 3:16
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Titus 1:2
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Titus 1:12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

1 John 5:11
The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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Philippians 2:22
But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

1 Timothy 1:2
to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

2 Timothy 2:2
The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

1 Peter 3:20
who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Revelation 2:1
“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

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Proverbs 25:26
Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

2 Peter 2:6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,

2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),

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