Proverbs 3:3
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3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you;
(A)Bind them around your neck,
(B)Write them on the tablet of your heart,
Proverbs 7:3
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3 (A)Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
2 Corinthians 3:3
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3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, (A)ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not (B)on tablets of stone but (C)on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
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Hebrews 10:16
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16 (A)“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
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Proverbs 6:21
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21 (A)Bind them continually upon your heart;
Tie them around your neck.
Malachi 2:6
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6 (A)The[a] law of truth was in his mouth,
And [b]injustice was not found on his lips.
He walked with Me in peace and equity,
And (B)turned many away from iniquity.
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- Malachi 2:6 Or True instruction
- Malachi 2:6 Or unrighteousness
Deuteronomy 11:18-21
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18 “Therefore (A)you shall [a]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your (B)soul, and (C)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 (D)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 (E)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that (F)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like (G)the days of the heavens above the earth.
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- Deuteronomy 11:18 Lit. put
Ephesians 5:9
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9 (for (A)the fruit of the [a]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
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- Ephesians 5:9 NU light
Proverbs 16:6
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6 (A)In mercy and truth
Atonement is provided for iniquity;
And (B)by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.
Proverbs 20:28
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- Proverbs 20:28 mercy
Proverbs 1:9
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9 For they will be a (A)graceful ornament on your head,
And chains about your neck.
Psalm 119:11
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11 (A)Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.
Psalm 25:10
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10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth,
To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Exodus 13:9
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9 It shall be as (A)a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 17:1
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Judah’s Sin and Punishment
17 “The sin of Judah is (A)written with a (B)pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond it is (C)engraved
On the tablet of their heart,
And on the horns of your altars,
Deuteronomy 6:8
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8 (A)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
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Hosea 4:1
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God’s Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a (A)charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or (B)knowledge of God in the land.
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- Hosea 4:1 A legal complaint
Matthew 23:23
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23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (A)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and (B)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
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Micah 7:18-20
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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?
(D)He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in (E)mercy.[a]
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all [b]our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 (F)You will give truth to Jacob
And [c]mercy to Abraham,
(G)Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
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- Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
- Micah 7:19 Lit. their
- Micah 7:20 Or lovingkindness
2 Samuel 15:20
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20 In fact, you came only yesterday. Should I make you wander up and down with us today, since I go (A)I know not where? Return, and take your brethren back. Mercy and truth be with you.”
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