1 Samuel 12:7
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7 Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers.
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Isaiah 1:18
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18 “Come now, (A)let us reason[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as (B)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
Acts 17:3
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3 (A)explaining and proving that it was necessary for (B)the Christ to suffer and (C)to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
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Micah 6:1-5
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The Indictment of the Lord
6 (A)Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.
2 (B)Hear, you mountains, (C)the indictment of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
3 “O my people, (D)what have I done to you?
(E)How have I wearied you? Answer me!
4 For (F)I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and (G)redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and (H)Miriam.
5 O my people, remember (I)what Balak king of Moab devised,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from (J)Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know (K)the righteous acts of the Lord.”
Ezekiel 18:25-30
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25 (A)“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? 26 (B)When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die. 27 Again, (C)when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life. 28 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
30 “Therefore (D)I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. (E)Repent and turn from all your transgressions, (F)lest iniquity be your ruin.[a]
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- Ezekiel 18:30 Or lest iniquity be your stumbling block
Isaiah 5:3-4
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3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 (A)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
(B)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?
Judges 5:11
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11 To the sound of musicians[a] at the watering places,
there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord,
the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.
“Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
Footnotes
- Judges 5:11 Or archers; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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