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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 4:7, 8

Again, I saw futility under the sun. / There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.

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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 5:10, 11

He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. / When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 3:2, 3

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, / not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money.

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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Timothy 6:5, 10

and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain. / For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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Avarice: General Scriptures Concerning Titus 1:7

As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 26:36, 37

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them. / They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 20:8

Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Joshua 7:5

And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Joshua 23:10

One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Judges 7:3

Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 15:24

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:1

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 51:12, 13

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass? / But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 6:12

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

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Cowardice: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Timothy 4:16

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

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Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 6:16

darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

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Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 38:29

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

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Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 147:17

He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?

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Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 25:13

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 22:21, 22

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. / You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 23:1–3, 6, 7

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. / You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. / And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:15, 35, 36

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly. / You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. / You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 16:19, 20

Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. / Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 24:17, 18

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. / Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 16:16, 17

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; / yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 31:13–15

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me, / what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account? / Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 12:5

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 11:7

When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 31:4, 5

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink, / lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 3:16

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 26:10

Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:3–5

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place. / For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people. / But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:34–36

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, / to deny a man justice before the Most High, / to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:11, 12

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 3:5

The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 3:14

Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 16:10

Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

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Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 22:11

Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 23:1–3, 6–8

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. / You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. / And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:13–15

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand. / You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. / You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 16:18–20

You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. / Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. / Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 25:1–4

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. / If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. / He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Ezra 7:26

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 72:1, 2

Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness. / May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 82:2–4

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah / Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. / Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 17:15, 26

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD. / It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 18:5, 17

Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice. / The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:8

A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 22:27

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:21

To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 3:16, 17

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. / I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 56:1

This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 59:14, 15

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. / Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 22:1–4

This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there, / saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates. / This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:35, 36

to deny a man justice before the Most High, / to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:7, 11, 12

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. / Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 8:16

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:23

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 12:7

If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning John 7:24, 51

Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.” / “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

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Justice: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 13:6

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Leviticus 19:14, 17, 18

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. / You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him. / Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 27:17, 18

‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ / ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 32:32, 33

But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. / Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Kings 6:21, 22

And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?” / “Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Job 31:29, 30

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him— / I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 4:2

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 7:14–16

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. / He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. / His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 10:7–10, 14

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue. / He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. / He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 21:11

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 22:7, 8

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads: / “He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 35:15, 16, 19–21

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing. / Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me. / Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 38:16, 19

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.” / Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 41:5–8

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?” / My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad. / All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 55:3, 10, 11

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger. / Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within. / Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 56:5, 6

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise. / They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 57:4, 6

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. / They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 59:3, 4, 6, 7

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD. / For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice. / They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 62:3, 4

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence? / They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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Malice: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 64:2–6

Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity, / who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, / ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

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