Matthew 20:13
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13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?(A)
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Matthew 26:50
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50 Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you are here to do.”[a] Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.(A)
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- 26.50 Or Why are you here?
Matthew 22:12
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12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.(A)
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Romans 9:14-15
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14 What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!(A) 15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”(B)
Romans 9:20
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20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(A)
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Job 40:8
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)
Job 35:2
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2 “Do you think this to be just?
You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’(A)
Job 34:17-18
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17 Shall one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty,(A)
18 who says to a king, ‘You scoundrel!’
and to princes, ‘You wicked men!’;(B)
Job 34:8-12
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8 who goes in company with evildoers
and walks with the wicked?(A)
9 For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing
to take delight in God.’(B)
10 “Therefore, hear me, you who have sense;
far be it from God that he should do wickedness
and from the Almighty[a] that he should do wrong.(C)
11 For according to their deeds he will repay them,
and according to their ways he will make it befall them.(D)
12 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly,
and the Almighty[b] will not pervert justice.(E)
Genesis 18:25
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25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”(A)
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