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.
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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.
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Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Genesis 45:24
So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Mark 8:33
But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”
Romans 12:3
For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
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Genesis 21:24
Abraham said, “I will swear.”
2 Kings 6:3
One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”
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Genesis 27:13
His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
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Genesis 41:33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
Genesis 41:35
Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41:36
The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”
Genesis 41:37
The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis 41:40
You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
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Exodus 1:10
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
Numbers 22:6
Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
Psalms 105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
Acts 7:19
The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
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Exodus 35:31
He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;
Exodus 35:35
He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
Exodus 36:2
Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
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Numbers 11:26
But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the Spirit rested on them. They were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27
A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
Numbers 11:28
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
Numbers 11:29
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
John 3:26
They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
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Numbers 20:11
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.
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Numbers 20:12
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
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Numbers 12:6
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
Numbers 12:7
My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
Numbers 12:8
With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
Deuteronomy 34:9
Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 34:10
Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
Deuteronomy 34:11
in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deuteronomy 34:12
and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
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Joshua 19:1
The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
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1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 7:4
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
1 Samuel 7:5
Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”
1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
2 Samuel 20:19
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
Ecclesiastes 9:13
I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
Isaiah 42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
Joel 2:12
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
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2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
2 Samuel 2:27
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
Job 19:2
“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
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2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
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2 Samuel 22:36
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.
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1 Kings 10:23
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:23
All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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1 Kings 12:10
The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’— tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
1 Kings 12:11
Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
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2 Chronicles 1:7
That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”
2 Chronicles 1:8
Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
2 Chronicles 1:9
Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
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2 Chronicles 10:10
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
2 Chronicles 10:11
Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
2 Chronicles 10:14
and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
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1 Samuel 25:32
David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
2 Chronicles 31:21
In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
Psalms 120:5
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 147:6
Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
John 2:17
His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
Acts 9:31
So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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,
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
1 Peter 3:9
not rendering evil for evil or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
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Ezra 2:1
Now these are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
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Ezra 2:2
who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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Ezra 2:3
The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2:4
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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Ezra 7:14
Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
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Job 12:2
“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
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Job 28:8
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
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Job 28:12
“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:23
“God understands its way, and he knows its place.
Psalms 119:144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Proverbs 8:14
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
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Psalms 7:2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Acts 19:28
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 19:29
The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.
Acts 19:30
When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
Acts 19:31
Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
Acts 21:31
As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21:32
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Acts 21:33
Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
Acts 21:34
Some shouted one thing and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
Acts 21:35
When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
Acts 21:36
for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
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Psalms 17:4
As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
John 8:23
He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48
As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 3:21
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Revelation 13:11
I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
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Psalms 18:35
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
Isaiah 22:3
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
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Psalms 12:6
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Psalms 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119:130
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Psalms 119:140
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Proverbs 30:5
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Romans 7:12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
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Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Proverbs 22:11
He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Malachi 3:3
and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
Matthew 3:15
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 107:43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Acts 6:10
They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
Romans 15:28
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,
2 Timothy 3:10
But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
1 Peter 3:2
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Psalms 131:1
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
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Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
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Proverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
Ecclesiastes 8:3
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
Ecclesiastes 8:4
for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 3:7
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Proverbs 28:26
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
Proverbs 30:2
“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
Proverbs 30:3
I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
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Proverbs 25:9
Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,
Matthew 18:15
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Matthew 18:16
But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
2 Thessalonians 3:15
Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
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Genesis 37:4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
1 Samuel 18:9
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
1 Samuel 18:15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
Job 5:2
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
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Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
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Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
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Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
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Isaiah 9:20
One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
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Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating Manasseh, and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Isaiah 28:14
Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 29:14
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
Isaiah 29:17
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
Isaiah 29:18
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Isaiah 65:5
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
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 9:34
They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
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Proverbs 12:8
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Ezekiel 28:12
“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Luke 2:40
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
1 Corinthians 1:31
that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
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Exodus 23:3
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
Job 32:21
Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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.’
Mark 12:14
When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
Luke 20:21
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
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Daniel 2:20
Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.
Daniel 2:22
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Daniel 2:23
I thank you and praise you, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”
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Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
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Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
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Genesis 33:13
Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33:14
Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
Ezekiel 34:14
I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:15
I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:16
“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
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Matthew 20:24
When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
Mark 10:41
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.
Luke 22:23
They began to question among themselves which of them it was who would do this thing.
Luke 22:24
A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
Luke 22:25
He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’
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Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
Matthew 7:1
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
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.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 24:51
and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Luke 12:2
But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
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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Matthew 27:51
Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
John 19:23
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
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Mark 15:38
The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
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Luke 2:43
and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,
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Matthew 12:7
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.
Luke 3:8
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
Luke 10:33
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
2 Corinthians 10:2
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
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2 Samuel 21:2
The king called the Gibeonites and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
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.
Luke 9:54
When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”
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Exodus 10:18
Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
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!
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Acts 10:48
He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
Romans 12:10
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,
1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Philippians 2:4
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Philippians 2:5
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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.
2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
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Psalms 119:1
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Psalms 122:8
For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
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.
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
Acts 11:24
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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Luke 12:12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
John 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
John 15:26
“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
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John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
John 17:22
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,
John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
Ephesians 4:5
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 4:6
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.
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Acts 23:10
When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and bring him into the barracks.
Acts 23:27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
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Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Isaiah 11:13
The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
Zechariah 7:9
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
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.
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
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Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
Romans 12:19
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:20
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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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.
Romans 14:4
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
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Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Acts 7:10
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Philippians 2:1
If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without complaining and arguing,
Colossians 3:8
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
2 Chronicles 31:20
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Galatians 5:26
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
Colossians 1:8
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 1:12
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
Colossians 2:2
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
2 Timothy 1:7
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Psalms 32:9
Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
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1 Kings 22:13
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
Matthew 15:12
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
Matthew 17:27
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”
1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
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.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
1 Corinthians 10:33
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 6:3
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
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.
Galatians 6:13
For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
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Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
1 Corinthians 14:19
However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”
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.
1 Corinthians 14:23
If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
1 Corinthians 14:25
And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
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Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
John 3:17
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:26
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
Colossians 4:3
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
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1 Kings 3:8
Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Psalms 119:125
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Timothy 2:7
Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
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2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
2 Corinthians 6:13
Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26
I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 6:7
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
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Psalms 37:11
But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Matthew 6:18
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
Ephesians 3:16
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
1 Peter 2:3
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
2 Peter 3:1
This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you
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2 Corinthians 11:19
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
2 Corinthians 12:16
Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. But you might say that being crafty, I caught you with deception.
2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
2 Corinthians 12:18
I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
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Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Galatians 2:5
to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
Titus 3:13
Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
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Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
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Philippians 1:5
for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
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Psalms 85:8
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
Psalms 85:10
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Isaiah 48:18
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 54:13
All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.
Isaiah 54:14
You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Micah 5:5
He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Romans 15:33
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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Psalms 37:8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
Proverbs 25:1
These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Jeremiah 17:8
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
Matthew 5:24
leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
2 Timothy 1:5
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.
2 Timothy 2:23
But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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1 Samuel 2:29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
Job 32:22
For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.
Ezekiel 13:10
“ ‘Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, “Peace;” and there is no peace. When one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash.
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
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,
Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
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.”
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.
Mark 12:15
Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
Isaiah 2:4
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
Isaiah 66:12
For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
2 Thessalonians 3:16
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
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1 Timothy 5:1
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
1 Timothy 5:2
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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.
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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;
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Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
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1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
1 Chronicles 29:18
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 18:26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Isaiah 32:15
until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Malachi 4:6
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
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Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
1 John 3:18
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psalms 119:63
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
Luke 11:4
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”
John 15:8
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.
Romans 15:14
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
Galatians 5:19
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
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