2 Samuel 15:34
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34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘Your Majesty, I will be your servant; I was your father’s servant in the past, but now I will be your servant,’(A) then you can help me by frustrating(B) Ahithophel’s advice.
Luke 16:8
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8 “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world(A) are more shrewd(B) in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.(C)
2 Samuel 15:31
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31 Now David had been told, “Ahithophel(A) is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”
1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness(A) in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”[a];(B)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 Job 5:13
1 Corinthians 1:19-20
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19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”[a](A)
20 Where is the wise person?(B) Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age?(C) Has not God made foolish(D) the wisdom of the world?
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 Isaiah 29:14
Proverbs 21:30
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Proverbs 19:21
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21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.(A)
2 Samuel 16:23
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23 Now in those days the advice(A) Ahithophel gave was like that of one who inquires of God. That was how both David(B) and Absalom regarded all of Ahithophel’s advice.
Amos 9:3
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Lamentations 3:37
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37 Who can speak and have it happen
if the Lord has not decreed it?(A)
Isaiah 8:10
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Psalm 33:9-10
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9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded,(A) and it stood firm.
Psalm 9:16
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Footnotes
- Psalm 9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.
Job 5:12-14
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2 Chronicles 25:20
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20 Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom.(A)
2 Chronicles 25:16
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16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?”
So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Deuteronomy 2:30
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30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord(A) your God had made his spirit stubborn(B) and his heart obstinate(C) in order to give him into your hands,(D) as he has now done.
Exodus 9:16
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16 But I have raised you up[a] for this very purpose,(A) that I might show you my power(B) and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Footnotes
- Exodus 9:16 Or have spared you
Genesis 32:28
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28 Then the man said, “Your name(A) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a](B) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”(C)
Footnotes
- Genesis 32:28 Israel probably means he struggles with God.
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