because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the c
The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who appr
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Ther
But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” S
Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go b
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and yo
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may d
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.
The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family