Hebrews 10:28
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28 (A)Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy (B)on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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Hebrews 2:2
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2 For since (A)the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and (B)every transgression or disobedience received a just (C)retribution,
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John 8:17
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17 (A)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.
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Matthew 18:16
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16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established (A)by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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Deuteronomy 19:15
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Laws Concerning Witnesses
15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. (A)Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
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James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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2 Corinthians 13:1
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Final Warnings
13 (A)This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established (B)by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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Romans 9:15
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15 For he says to Moses, (A)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Jeremiah 13:14
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14 And I will (A)dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”
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Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
(A)For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
2 Samuel 12:13
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13 (A)David said to Nathan, (B)“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, (C)“The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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2 Samuel 12:9
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9 (A)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (B)to do what is evil in his sight? (C)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (D)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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Deuteronomy 19:13
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13 (A)Your eye shall not pity him, (B)but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood[a] from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
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- Deuteronomy 19:13 Or the blood of the innocent
Deuteronomy 17:2-13
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2 (A)“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, (B)in transgressing his covenant, 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or (C)the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, (D)which I have forbidden, 4 and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire (E)diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you (F)shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. 6 (G)On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 7 (H)The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So (I)you shall purge[a] the evil[b] from your midst.
Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8 “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to (J)the place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 (K)And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and (L)they shall declare to you the decision. 10 Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you. 11 According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 12 The man who (M)acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest (N)who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So (O)you shall purge the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people (P)shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
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- Deuteronomy 17:7 Septuagint drive out; also verse 12
- Deuteronomy 17:7 Or evil person; also verse 12
Deuteronomy 13:6-10
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6 (A)“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or (B)the wife you embrace[a] or your friend (C)who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ (D)which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some (E)of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall (F)not yield to him or listen to him, nor (G)shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. (H)Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 (I)You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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- Deuteronomy 13:6 Hebrew the wife of your bosom
Numbers 15:36
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36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Numbers 15:30-31
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30 (A)But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has (B)despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”
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