“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for u
Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is i
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blu
And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and d
For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and