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Joel 2:14
Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before.
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Romans 12:9
Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.
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Psalms 97:10
You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked.
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Micah 5:7-8
Then the remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like dew sent by the Lord or like rain falling on the grass, which no one can hold back and no one can restrain.The remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a strong young lion among flocks of sheep and goats, pouncing and tearing as they go with no rescuer in sight.
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Micah 5:3
The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies until the woman in labor gives birth. Then at last his fellow countrymen will return from exile to their own land.
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Exodus 32:30
The next day Moses said to the people,“ You have committed a terrible sin, but I will go back up to the Lord on the mountain. Perhaps I will be able to obtain forgiveness for your sin.”
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Psalms 37:27
Turn from evil and do good, and you will live in the land forever.
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3 John 1 11
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2 Kings 14 26-2 Kings 14 27
The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.And since the Lord had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash. (niv)
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Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! (niv)
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2 Samuel 16 12
It may be that the Lord will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.” (niv)
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Amos 5:10
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth. (niv)
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Romans 7:15-16
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. (niv)
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Jonah 3:9
Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” (niv)
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Psalms 119:104
I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. (niv)
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Psalms 82:2-4
“ How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (niv)
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1 Kings 20 31
His officials said to him,“ Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.” (niv)
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2 Kings 15 29
In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria. (niv)
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2 Kings 19 4
It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.” (niv)
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Psalms 139:21-22
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. (niv)
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Jeremiah 31:7
This is what the Lord says:“ Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say,‘ Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’ (niv)
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1 Thessalonians 5 21-1 Thessalonians 5 22
but test them all; hold on to what is good,reject every kind of evil. (niv)
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Romans 7:22
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; (niv)
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2 Chronicles 19 6-2 Chronicles 19 11
He told them,“ Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals but for the Lord, who is with you whenever you give a verdict.Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.He gave them these orders:“ You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the Lord.In every case that comes before you from your people who live in the cities— whether bloodshed or other concerns of the law, commands, decrees or regulations— you are to warn them not to sin against the Lord; otherwise his wrath will come on you and your people. Do this, and you will not sin.“ Amariah the chief priest will be over you in any matter concerning the Lord, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the tribe of Judah, will be over you in any matter concerning the king, and the Levites will serve as officials before you. Act with courage, and may the Lord be with those who do well.” (niv)
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Psalms 36:4
Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong. (niv)
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Micah 2:12
“ I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:5-7
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. (niv)
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2 Kings 13 7
Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time. (niv)
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Romans 8:7
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. (niv)
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Psalms 34:14
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (niv)
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Amos 5:6
Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweep through the tribes of Joseph like a fire; it will devour them, and Bethel will have no one to quench it. (niv)
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Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness— (niv)
