Exodus 23:7
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7 (A)Keep yourself far from a false matter; (B)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For (C)I will not justify the wicked.
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Ephesians 4:25
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Do Not Grieve the Spirit
25 Therefore, putting away lying, (A)“Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for (B)we are members of one another.
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Deuteronomy 27:25
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25 (A)‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’
“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
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Exodus 34:7
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7 (A)keeping mercy for thousands, (B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (C)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
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Exodus 23:1
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Justice for All
23 “You (A)shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an (B)unrighteous witness.
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Leviticus 19:11
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11 (A)‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, (B)nor lie to one another.
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1 Thessalonians 5:22
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22 Abstain from every form of evil.
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Romans 1:18
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God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
18 (A)For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and (B)unrighteousness of men, who [a]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
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- Romans 1:18 hold down
Deuteronomy 19:16-21
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16 If a false witness (A)rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, (B)before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, 19 (C)then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so (D)you shall put away the evil from among you. 20 (E)And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. 21 (F)Your eye shall not pity: (G)life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Romans 2:5-6
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5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (A)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who (B)“will render to each one according to his deeds”:
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- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
Luke 3:14
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14 Likewise the soldiers asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?”
So he said to them, “Do not [a]intimidate anyone (A)or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.”
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- Luke 3:14 Lit. shake down for money
Nahum 1:3
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(C)The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
Isaiah 33:15
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15 He who (A)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And (B)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
Proverbs 17:15
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15 (A)He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just,
Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 4:14-15
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14 (A)Do not enter the path of the wicked,
And do not walk in the way of evil.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
Turn away from it and pass on.
Job 22:23
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23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;
You will remove iniquity far from your tents.
Exodus 20:13
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13 (A)“You shall not murder.
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