Joshua 24:27
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27 Joshua said to all the people, “See, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you if you deal falsely with your God.”(A)
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Luke 19:40
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40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”(A)
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Joshua 22:34
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34 The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness,[a] “for,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”(A)
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- 22.34 Heb mss Syr: MT lacks Witness
Matthew 10:33
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33 but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
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Joshua 22:27-28
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27 but to be a witness between us and you and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and offerings of well-being, so that your children may never say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’(A) 28 And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we could say, “Look at this copy of the altar of the Lord that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”
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Deuteronomy 31:26
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26 “Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.(A)
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2 Timothy 2:12-13
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12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he will also deny us;(A)
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—
he[a] cannot deny himself.(B)
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- 2.13 Other ancient authorities read for he
Isaiah 1:2
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The Wickedness of Judah
2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.(A)
Proverbs 30:9
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9 lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.(A)
Job 31:23
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23 For I was in terror of calamity from God,
and I could not have faced his majesty.(A)
1 Samuel 7:12
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12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah[a] and named it Ebenezer,[b] for he said, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:1
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32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)
Deuteronomy 31:21
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21 And when many terrible troubles come upon them, this song will confront them as a witness because it will not be lost from the mouths of their descendants. For I know what they are inclined to do even now, before I have brought them into the land that I promised them on oath.”(A)
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Titus 1:16
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16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.(A)
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Deuteronomy 31:19
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19 Now, therefore, write this song, and teach it to the Israelites; put it in their mouths, in order that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites.
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Deuteronomy 30:19
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19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:26
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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.(A)
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Genesis 31:44-52
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44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”(A) 45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.(B) 46 And Jacob said to his kinsfolk, “Gather stones,” and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. 47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha,[a] but Jacob called it Galeed.[b] 48 Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he called it Galeed(C) 49 and the pillar[c] Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are absent one from the other.(D) 50 If you ill-treat my daughters or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, though no one else is with us, remember that God is witness between you and me.”
51 Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and see the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 52 This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
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Revelation 3:8
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8 “I know your works. Look, I have set before you an open door that no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.(A)
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Habakkuk 2:11
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11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.
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