1 Samuel 15:24
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24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.(A)
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Isaiah 51:12-13
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12 I, I am he who comforts you;
why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die,
a human being who fades like grass?(A)
13 You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.
You fear continually all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?(B)
2 Samuel 12:13
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13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.(A)
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Proverbs 29:25
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- 29.25 Or human fear
Numbers 22:34
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34 Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now therefore, if it is displeasing to you, I will return home.”(A)
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Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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Galatians 1:10
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10 Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.(A)
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Exodus 23:2
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2 You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice,[a](A)
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- 23.2 Gk: Heb lacks justice
Luke 23:20-25
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20 Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again, 21 but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” 22 A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death; I will therefore have him flogged and then release him.”(A) 23 But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed. 24 So Pilate gave his verdict that their demand should be granted. 25 He released the man they asked for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over as they wished.
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Matthew 27:4
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4 He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent[a] blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”(A)
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- 27.4 Other ancient authorities read righteous
Jeremiah 38:5
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5 King Zedekiah said, “Here he is; he is in your hands, for the king is powerless against you.”(A)
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Job 31:34
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34 because I stood in great fear of the multitude,
and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence and did not go out of doors—(A)
1 Samuel 15:30
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30 Then Saul[a] said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”(A)
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- 15.30 Heb he
1 Samuel 15:15
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15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed.”(A)
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1 Samuel 15:9
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9 Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the cattle and of the fatted calves,[a] and the lambs, and all that was valuable and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.(A)
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- 15.9 Cn: Heb the second ones
1 Samuel 2:29
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29 Why then look[a] with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings[b] and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?(A)
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Exodus 10:16
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16 Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.(A)
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Exodus 9:27
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27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.(A)
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Genesis 3:17
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
Genesis 3:12
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12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.”(A)
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