1 Samuel 8:7
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7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them.
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1 Samuel 10:19
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19 (A)But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore (B)present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.”
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Luke 19:27
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27 But (A)as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and (B)slaughter them before me.’”
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Exodus 16:8
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8 And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—(A)what are we? Your grumbling is not (B)against us but against the Lord.”
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Luke 19:14
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14 But (A)his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
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Luke 10:16
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16 (A)“The one who hears you hears me, and (B)the one who rejects you rejects me, and (C)the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
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Matthew 10:40
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40 (A)“Whoever receives you receives me, and (B)whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
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Hosea 13:10-11
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10 (A)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers—
those of whom (B)you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 (C)I gave you a king in my anger,
and (D)I took him away in my wrath.
John 15:20-21
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20 Remember the word that I said to you: (A)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, (B)they will also persecute you. (C)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But (D)all these things they will do to you (E)on account of my name, (F)because they do not know him who sent me.
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John 13:16
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16 Truly, truly, I say to you, (A)a servant[a] is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
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- John 13:16 Or bondservant, or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
Matthew 10:24-25
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24 (A)“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant[a] above his master. 25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. (B)If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign[b] those of his household.
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- Matthew 10:24 Or bondservant; also verse 25
- Matthew 10:25 Greek lacks will they malign
Isaiah 66:4
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4 (A)I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and bring (B)their fears upon them,
(C)because when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen;
(D)but they did what was evil in my eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Psalm 81:11-12
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11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel (A)would not submit to me.
12 So I (B)gave them over to their (C)stubborn hearts,
to follow their own (D)counsels.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.