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Isaiah 59:3 (NIV)
For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.
Jeremiah 22:14 (NIV)
He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.’ So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red.
Leviticus 19:35 (NIV)
“ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.
Proverbs 13:24 (NIV)
Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Romans 9:13 (NIV)
Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Job 7:1 (NIV)
“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
Psalms 107:42 (NIV)
The upright see and rejoice, but all the wicked shut their mouths.
Ecclesiastes 10:5 (NIV)
There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler:
Romans 9:15 (NIV)
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Job 24:20 (NIV)
The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
Job 6:28 (NIV)
“But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
Ezekiel 33:15 (NIV)
if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.
Amos 5:10 (NIV)
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
Job 11:13 (NIV)
“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
2 Chronicles 19:6 (NIV)
He told them, “Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals but for the Lord , who is with you whenever you give a verdict.
2 Chronicles 19:8 (NIV)
In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
Habakkuk 2:11 (NIV)
The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
Job 11:15 (NIV)
then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.
Hosea 10:14 (NIV)
the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
Hosea 10:12 (NIV)
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord , until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
Job 34:32 (NIV)
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.’
Habakkuk 1:2 (NIV)
How long, Lord , must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
Leviticus 19:16 (NIV)
“ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord .
Ezekiel 18:27 (NIV)
But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.
Habakkuk 2:13 (NIV)
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?