Nehemiah 6:13
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13 He was hired for this purpose, to intimidate me and make me sin by acting in this way, and so they could give me a bad name, in order to taunt me.(A)
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Jeremiah 20:10
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10 For I hear many whispering:
“Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my close friends
are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
and we can prevail against him
and take our revenge on him.”(A)
James 4:17
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17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.(A)
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2 Timothy 1:7
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7 for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.(A)
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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
Proverbs 29:5
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5 Whoever flatters a neighbor
is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.
Nehemiah 6:6
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6 In it was written, “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem[a] also says it—that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and according to this report you wish to become their king.(A)
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- 6.6 Heb Gashmu
Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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Titus 2:8
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8 and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.(A)
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1 Timothy 5:14
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14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:12
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12 And what I do I will also continue to do, in order to deny an opportunity to those who want an opportunity to be recognized as our equals in what they boast about.
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Acts 6:13
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13 They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,(A)
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Matthew 26:59
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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,
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