Galatians 4:16
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16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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Amos 5:10
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10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.(A)
Proverbs 9:8
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8 Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you;
rebuke the wise, and he will love you.(A)
Galatians 5:7
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7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?(A)
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John 8:45
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45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.[a]
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- 8.45 Or You do not believe even though I tell the truth
Psalm 141:5
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5 Let the righteous strike me;
let the faithful correct me.
Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head,[a]
for my prayer is continually[b] against their wicked deeds.(A)
1 Kings 22:8
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8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”
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Galatians 2:5
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5 we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.(A)
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John 7:7
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7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.(A)
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1 Kings 18:17-18
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17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”(A) 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.(B)
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1 Kings 21:20
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20 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you. Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord,(A)
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Galatians 3:1-4
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Law or Faith
3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!(A) 2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?(B) 3 Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?(C) 4 Did you experience so much for nothing?—if it really was for nothing.(D)
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Galatians 2:14
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14 But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?”[a](A)
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- 2.14 Some interpreters hold that the quotation extends into the following paragraph
2 Chronicles 25:16
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16 But as he was speaking, the king[a] said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” 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 advice.”
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2 Chronicles 24:20-22
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20 Then the spirit of God took possession of[a] Zechariah son of the priest Jehoiada; he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you.”(A) 21 But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.(B) 22 King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”(C)
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- 24.20 Heb clothed itself with
1 Kings 22:27
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27 and say: Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.”(A)
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