Psalm 17:4
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4 As for what others do, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.(A)
1 Peter 5:8
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8 Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.(A)
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Psalm 119:9-11
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9 How can young people keep their way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.(A)
10 With my whole heart I seek you;
do not let me stray from your commandments.(B)
11 I treasure your word in my heart,
so that I may not sin against you.(C)
Revelation 12:11
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11 But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.(A)
James 1:18
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18 In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.(A)
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Ephesians 6:17
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17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:3
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3 for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling[a] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?(A)
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- 3.3 Other ancient authorities add and dissensions
John 17:17
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17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
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Matthew 4:10
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10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
‘Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.’ ”(A)
Matthew 4:7
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7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”(A)
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Matthew 4:4
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4 But he answered, “It is written,
‘One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”(A)
Proverbs 2:10-15
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10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 prudence will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you.
12 It will save you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perversely,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,(A)
14 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,(B)
15 those whose paths are crooked
and who are devious in their ways.(C)
Psalm 14:1-3
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Psalm 14
Denunciation of Godlessness
To the leader. Of David.
1 Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds;
there is no one who does good.(A)
2 The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind
to see if there are any who are wise,
who seek after God.(B)
3 They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.(C)
Revelation 9:11
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11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,[a] and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[b](A)
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1 Peter 4:2-3
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2 so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(A) 3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(B)
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Job 31:33
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- 31.33 Or as Adam did
Job 15:16
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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
one who drinks iniquity like water!(A)
Genesis 6:11
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11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
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Genesis 6:5
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5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.(A)
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