1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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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.
Haggai 2:4
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 18:11
For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
Luke 22:32
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
Romans 14:1
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 8:11
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Leviticus 19:16
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
Jeremiah 9:4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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Deuteronomy 5:25
Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:27
Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
Deuteronomy 5:28
Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 30:6
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 110:3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 32:29
The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
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.
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.
Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
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Deuteronomy 32:46
He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
Mark 4:23
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Mark 13:14
“But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
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2 Chronicles 30:12
Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
Matthew 19:30
But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.
Acts 17:12
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Acts 28:28
“Be it known therefore to you that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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Job 22:22
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
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Psalms 23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Song of Solomon 1:8
If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
Jeremiah 3:15
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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.
Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Ephesians 4:11
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
1 Timothy 4:6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
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Psalms 73:16
When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Psalms 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
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.
Acts 8:31
He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians 14:36
What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Psalms 119:3
Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
Psalms 119:25
My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
Psalms 119:29
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
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Psalms 37:11
But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 149:4
For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
1 Timothy 3:6
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 25:18
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
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Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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Proverbs 10:3
Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
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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 119:140
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Proverbs 30:5
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
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Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
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.
Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
2 Peter 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
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Song of Solomon 7:3
Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.
Song of Solomon 8:8
We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?
Song of Solomon 8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
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Song of Solomon 7:7
This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.
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Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 4:11
Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 8:1
Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Hosea 14:6
His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Zechariah 4:12
I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”
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Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isaiah 60:16
You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
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Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Matthew 19:4
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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.
2 Peter 3:11
Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
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Ezekiel 25:4
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.
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Hosea 1:8
Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
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Hosea 11:10
They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
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Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
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.
2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
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1 Samuel 18:9
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Ephesians 4:2
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
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 2:2
make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without complaining and arguing,
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.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
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Matthew 19:13
Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
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Matthew 19:15
He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
Luke 18:15
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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Matthew 18:2
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them
Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,
Luke 9:47
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
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Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:29
“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
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Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
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Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
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Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
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?
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Luke 1:80
The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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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.
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Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
Romans 6:18
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 John 5:5
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
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John 4:32
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
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John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
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Job 23:4
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
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.
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.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
2 Timothy 3:14
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
2 Peter 1:7
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
John 18:29
Pilate therefore went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
John 18:30
They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
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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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Psalms 26:8
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
Psalms 130:6
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Isaiah 8:19
When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Acts 11:14
who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
Acts 13:26
“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12
But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 2:13
We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
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Zephaniah 3:18
I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
1 Corinthians 2:1
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
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Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 8:15
He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
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,
1 Corinthians 15:4
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Psalms 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:126
It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
Psalms 119:128
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Romans 7:12
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
Romans 7:16
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
Colossians 4:16
When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
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2 Samuel 23:5
Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Ezekiel 37:10
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
John 3:12
If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 4:10
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
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1 Samuel 3:9
Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’ ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
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.
Luke 1:44
For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
Luke 2:12
This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
Acts 10:36
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
2 Corinthians 5:19
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:15
having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
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Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,
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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Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
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Philippians 1:16
The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
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1 Samuel 1:14
Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
Job 22:21
“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
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.
Ezekiel 18:30
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Colossians 2:11
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
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1 Thessalonians 1:5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 1:7
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
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Acts 15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
2 John 1:4
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 23:17
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
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.
Romans 10:8
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:
Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
Titus 1:3
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
Titus 2:12
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
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Proverbs 19:27
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Luke 8:8
Other fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Acts 11:1
Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
2 Timothy 1:13
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:17
and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
Hebrews 4:1
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
1 Peter 3:2
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
1 John 5:13
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
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James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Psalms 8:2
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:22
For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
1 Corinthians 1:29
that no flesh should boast before God.
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
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?
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Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Matthew 13:8
Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Matthew 26:29
But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Mark 4:8
Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
Acts 2:21
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
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,
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:18
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
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Psalms 18:23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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 3:11
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
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1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
1 Peter 4:18
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
1 Peter 4:19
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
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Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Matthew 28:19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
John 13:33
Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
1 John 1:2
(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
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2 Timothy 3:6
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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