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Exodus 22:28 — "You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Deuteronomy 13:6-8 — "If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),
you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.
Joshua 1:16-18 — They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
~"Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the LORD your God be with you as He was with Moses.
~"Anyone who rebels against your command and does not obey your words in all that you command him, shall be put to death; only be strong and courageous."
Ruth 1:15-17 — Then she said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law."
But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you {or} turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people {shall be} my people, and your God, my God.
~"Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if {anything but} death parts you and me."
1 Samuel 24:6-8 — So he said to his men, "Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD's anointed."
David persuaded his men with {these} words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. And Saul arose, left the cave, and went on {his} way.
Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.
1 Samuel 26:7-9 — So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."
But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be without guilt?"
2 Samuel 15:21 — But Ittai answered the king and said, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be."
2 Samuel 15:30 — And David went up the ascent of the {Mount of} Olives, and wept as he went, and his head was covered and he walked barefoot. Then all the people who were with him each covered his head and went up weeping as they went.
2 Samuel 20:2 — So all the men of Israel withdrew from following David {and} followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah remained steadfast to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
1 Kings 8:61 — ~"Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day."
1 Kings 11:4 — For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not (Lit {complete with}) wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father {had been.}
Nehemiah 3:5 — Moreover, next to him the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their masters.
Job 6:27 — "You would even cast {lots} for the orphans And barter over your friend.
Job 34:18 — Who says to a king, `Worthless one,' To nobles, `Wicked ones';
Psalms 15:2-3 — He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.
He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
Psalms 41:9 — Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
Proverbs 17:17 — A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24 — A man of {too many} friends {comes} to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:4 — Wealth adds many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.
Proverbs 19:6 — Many will seek the favor of a generous man, And every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.
Proverbs 20:6 — Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, But who can find a trustworthy man?
Proverbs 24:21 — My son, fear the LORD and the king; Do not associate with those who are given to change,
Proverbs 27:6 — Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27:10 — Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend, And do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
Proverbs 27:17 — Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.
Isaiah 29:13 — Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned {by rote,}
Hosea 6:4 — What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud And like the dew which goes away early.
Hosea 10:2 — Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars {And} destroy their {sacred} pillars.
Haggai 1:2 — "Thus says the LORD of hosts, `This people says, "The time has not come, {even} the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.""'
Haggai 1:8 — ~"Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified," says the LORD.
Matthew 6:22-24 — "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
~"But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and (Gr {mamonas,} for Aram {mamon} (mammon); i.e. wealth, etc., personified as an object of worship) wealth.
Matthew 24:10 — ~"At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
Luke 16:13 — ~"No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."
John 15:13 — ~"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
Acts 4:32 — And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one {of them} claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them.
Acts 15:38-39 — But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
And there occurred such a sharp disagreement that they separated from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.
Romans 12:4-5 — For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Romans 12:10 — {Be} devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;
Romans 12:16 — Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
Romans 13:1 — Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
Romans 13:8 — Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled {the} law.
1 Corinthians 12:24-25 — whereas our more presentable members have no need {of it.} But God has {so} composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that {member} which lacked,
so that there may be no division in the body, but {that} the members may have the same care for one another.
Galatians 5:13-15 — For you were called to freedom, brethren; only {do} not {turn} your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the {statement,} "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
Ephesians 4:2 — with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,
Ephesians 4:25 — Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE {of you} WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 5:24-25 — But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives {ought to be} to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Colossians 3:13 — bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.
Titus 3:1 — Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
Hebrews 3:13 — But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is {still} called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 10:24-25 — and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging {one another;} and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Hebrews 13:5 — {Make sure that} your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,"
James 4:4 — You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:8 — Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
1 Peter 4:8 — Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
2 Peter 2:10 — and especially those who indulge the flesh in {its} corrupt desires and despise authority.
Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
Revelation 2:4 — ~`But I have {this} against you, that you have left your first love.
Revelation 3:14-17 — "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the (I.e. Origin or Source) Beginning of the creation of God, says this:
`I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.
~`So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
~`Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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