1 Corinthians 13:6
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6 (A)does not rejoice in iniquity, but (B)rejoices in the truth;
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Romans 12:9
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Behave Like a Christian
9 (A)Let love be without hypocrisy. (B)Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
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3 John 3-4
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3 For I (A)rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater (B)joy than to hear that (C)my children walk in [a]truth.
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- 3 John 1:4 NU the truth
2 John 4
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Walk in Christ’s Commandments
4 I (A)rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
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Romans 1:32
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32 who, (A)knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things (B)are deserving of death, not only do the same but also (C)approve of those who practice them.
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2 Thessalonians 2:12
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12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but (A)had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Proverbs 14:9
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- Proverbs 14:9 Lit. guilt
Luke 19:41-42
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and (A)wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this (B)your day, the things that (C)make for your (D)peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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Hosea 4:8
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8 They eat up the sin of My people;
They set their [a]heart on their iniquity.
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- Hosea 4:8 Desires
Micah 7:8
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Israel’s Confession and Comfort
8 (A)Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;
(B)When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me.
Jeremiah 13:17
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17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will (A)weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
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Encouraged by Timothy
6 (A)But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, (B)as we also to see you— 7 therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress (C)we were comforted concerning you by your faith. 8 For now we live, if you (D)stand fast in the Lord.
9 For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face (E)and perfect what is lacking in your faith?
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Philippians 3:18
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18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are (A)the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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Philippians 2:17-18
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17 Yes, and if (A)I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice (B)and service of your faith, (C)I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18 For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice with me.
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Philippians 1:18
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18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
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Philippians 1:4
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4 always in (A)every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,
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2 Corinthians 7:9-16
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9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For (A)godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (B)but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what (C)clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be (D)clear in this matter. 12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, (E)but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.
The Joy of Titus
13 Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit (F)has been refreshed by you all. 14 For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true. 15 And his affections are greater for you as he remembers (G)the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. 16 Therefore I rejoice that (H)I have confidence in you in everything.
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Luke 22:5
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5 And they were glad, and (A)agreed to give him money.
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Hosea 7:3
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Jeremiah 9:1
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Disobedience Brings God’s Judgment
9 Oh, (A)that my head were waters,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Psalm 119:136
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136 (A)Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law.
Psalm 10:3
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of his heart’s desire;
[a]He (B)blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
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- Psalm 10:3 Or The greedy man curses and spurns the Lord
2 Samuel 4:10-12
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10 when (A)someone told me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag—the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now (B)require his [a]blood at your hand and [b]remove you from the earth?” 12 So David (C)commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the (D)tomb of Abner in Hebron.
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- 2 Samuel 4:11 Or bloodshed
- 2 Samuel 4:11 Lit. consume you
1 Samuel 23:19-21
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19 Then the Ziphites (A)came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding with us in strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and (B)our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.”
21 And Saul said, “Blessed are you of the Lord, for you have compassion on me.
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Joshua 22:22-33
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22 “The Lord (A)God of gods, the Lord God of gods, He (B)knows, and let Israel itself know—if it is in rebellion, or if in treachery against the Lord, do not save us this day. 23 If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer on it burnt offerings or grain offerings, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the Lord Himself (C)require an account. 24 But in fact we have done it [a]for fear, for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your descendants may speak to our descendants, saying, “What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel? 25 For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no part in the Lord.” So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the Lord.’ 26 Therefore we said, ‘Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, 27 but that it may be (D)a [b]witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may (E)perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, “You have no part in the Lord.” ’ 28 Therefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, ‘Here is the replica of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.’ 29 Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day, (F)to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”
30 Now when Phinehas the priest and the rulers of the congregation, the heads of the [c]divisions of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them. 31 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh, “This day we perceive that the Lord is (G)among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.”
32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought back word to them. 33 So the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel (H)blessed God; they spoke no more of going against them in battle, to destroy the land where the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
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- Joshua 22:24 Lit. from fear
- Joshua 22:27 testimony
- Joshua 22:30 Lit. thousands
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