Ezekiel 22:9
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9 In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.(A)
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Hosea 4:14
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14 I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves
nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with female attendants;
thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.(A)
Hosea 4:10
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10 They shall eat but not be satisfied;
they shall prostitute themselves but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
to devote themselves to(A)
Hosea 4:2
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2 Swearing, lying, and murder,
and stealing and adultery break out;
bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Leviticus 19:16
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16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood[a] of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.(A)
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- 19.16 Heb stand against the blood
Ezekiel 18:11
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11 who does any of these things (though his father[a] does none of them), who eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,
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- 18.11 Heb he
Ezekiel 18:6
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6 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,(A)
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Ezekiel 16:43
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43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me with all these things, therefore I have returned your deeds upon your head, says the Lord God.
Have you not committed lewdness beyond all your abominations?(A)
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Revelation 12:9-10
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9 The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.(A)
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming,
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Messiah,[a]
for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down,
who accuses them day and night before our God.(B)
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- 12.10 Gk Christ
1 Corinthians 10:18-21
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18 Consider the people of Israel:[a] Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?(A) 19 What do I imply, then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what they[b] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.(B) 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.(C)
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Acts 24:13
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13 Neither can they prove to you the charge that they now bring against me.(A)
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Acts 24:5
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5 We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.[a](A)
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- 24.5 Gk Nazoreans
Acts 6:11-13
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11 Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”(A) 12 They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council. 13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(B)
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Matthew 26:59
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59 Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death,
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Hosea 7:4
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4 They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker does not need to stir the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.(A)
Hosea 6:9
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9 As robbers lie in wait[a] for someone,
so the priests are banded together;[b]
they murder on the road to Shechem;
they commit a monstrous crime.(A)
Ezekiel 24:13
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13 Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness,
you did not become clean from your filth;
you shall not again be cleansed
until I have satisfied my fury upon you.(A)
Ezekiel 18:15
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15 who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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Jeremiah 38:4-6
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4 Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city and all the people by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”(A) 5 King Zedekiah said, “Here he is; he is in your hands, for the king is powerless against you.”(B) 6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.(C)
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Jeremiah 37:13-15
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13 When he reached the Benjamin Gate, a sentinel there named Irijah son of Shelemiah son of Hananiah arrested the prophet Jeremiah saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”(A) 14 And Jeremiah said, “That is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him and arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 15 The officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of the secretary Jonathan, for it had been made a prison.(B)
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Jeremiah 9:4
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4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(A)
Jeremiah 6:28
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28 They are all stubbornly rebellious,
going about with slanders;
they are bronze and iron;
all of them act corruptly.(A)
Proverbs 26:22
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22 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.(A)
Proverbs 18:8
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8 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.(A)
Proverbs 10:18
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18 Lying lips conceal hatred,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
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