Isaiah 32:7
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7 The villainies of villains are evil;
they devise wicked devices
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.(A)
Jeremiah 5:26-28
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26 For the wicked are found among my people.
They lie in wait like hunters;
destroyers,[a] they catch humans.(A)
27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;(B)
28 they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.(C)
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- 5.26 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 5:23
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23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of their rights!(A)
Acts 6:11-13
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11 Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”(A) 12 They stirred up the people as well as the elders and the scribes; then they suddenly confronted him, seized him, and brought him before the council. 13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(B)
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Matthew 26:59-60
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59 Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death, 60 but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward(A)
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Matthew 26:14-16
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Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.(A) 16 And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
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Matthew 26:4
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4 and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.(A)
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Micah 7:2-3
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2 The faithful have disappeared from the land,
and there is no one left who is upright;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and they hunt each other with nets.(A)
3 Their hands are skilled to do evil;
the official and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the powerful dictate what they desire;
thus they pervert justice.[a](B)
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- 7.3 Cn: Heb they weave it
Micah 2:11
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11 If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods,
saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”
such a one would be the preacher for this people!(A)
Jeremiah 18:18
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A Plot against Jeremiah
18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him,[a] and let us not heed any of his words.”(A)
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- 18.18 Heb strike him with the tongue
Isaiah 61:1
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The Good News of Deliverance
61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and release to the prisoners,(A)
Isaiah 59:3-4
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.(A)
4 No one brings suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies,
conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.(B)
Isaiah 1:23
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23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)
Psalm 82:2-5
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2 “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah(A)
3 Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.(B)
4 Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”(C)
5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
they walk around in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.(D)
Psalm 64:4-6
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4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
they shoot suddenly and without fear.(A)
5 They hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see us?[a](B)
6 Who can search out our crimes?[b]
We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot.”
For the human heart and mind are deep.(C)
Psalm 10:7-10
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7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.(A)
8 They sit in ambush in the villages;
in hiding places they murder the innocent.
Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;(B)
9 they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.(C)
10 They stoop, they crouch,
and the helpless fall by their might.
1 Kings 21:10-14
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10 seat two scoundrels opposite him, and have them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”(A) 11 The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. Just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12 they proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the assembly. 13 The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.(B) 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”
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