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"if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and
pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear
from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.(NIV)
Psalm
9:17
The
wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God. (NIV)
Psalm
127:1
Unless
the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches
over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.(NIV)
"If
men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely
but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the
woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury,
you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot, (NIV)
Proverbs
6:16-17
There
are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty
eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, (NIV)
Proverbs
31:8-9
"Speak
up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who
are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor
and needy." (NIV)
These
are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach
you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD
your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that
I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be
careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase
greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God
of your fathers, promised you. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD
is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are
to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when
you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and
when you get up. (NIV)
Psalm
78:4-7
We
will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he
commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation
would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would
tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not
forget his deeds but would keep his commands. (NIV)
Colossians
2:8
See
to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,
which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world
rather than on Christ. (NIV)
Ill-gotten
treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death. The LORD
does not let the righteous go hungry but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. (NIV)
Matthew
25: 14-27
Again, it
will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted
his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another
two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability.
Then he went on his journey. The man who had received the five talents
went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. So also,
the one with the two talents gained two more. But the man who had received
the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's
money. After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled
accounts with them. The man who had received the five talents brought
the other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with five talents.
See, I have gained five more.'
His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come
and share your master's happiness!'
The man with the two talents also came. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted
me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.'
His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come
and share your master's happiness!'
Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said,
'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and
gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went
out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest
where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so
that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. (NIV)
2
Thessalonians 3:10
For
even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not
work, he shall not eat." (NIV)
Whoever
sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image
of God has God made man. (NIV)
Exodus
21:12-16
Anyone
who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. However, if
he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to
a place I will designate. But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately,
take him away from my altar and put him to death.
Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.
Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he
is caught must be put to death. (NIV)
Numbers
35:33
'Do
not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement
cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the
blood of the one who shed it. (NIV)
Romans
13:4
For
he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for
he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of
wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. (NIV)
Like
a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to
the wicked. (NIV)
Nehemiah
4:14
After
I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and
the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord,
who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your
daughters, your wives and your homes." (NIV)
1
Timothy 5:8
If
anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate
family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (NIV)
Haven't
you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made
them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father
and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?
So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together,
let man not separate." (NIV)
Romans
1:24-32
Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity
for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the
Creator-- who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over
to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural
ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women
and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts
with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge
of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be
done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed
and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless,
faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do
these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (NIV)
1
Corinthians 6:9-10
Do
you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor
male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor
drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
(NIV)
'You
are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD
your God.' (NIV)
Numbers
15:15-16
The
community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among
you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the
alien shall be the same before the LORD : The same laws and regulations
will apply both to you and to the alien living among you.
Lev
19:15
Do
not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to
the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
Gal
3:28
There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
Eph
2:14
For
he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the
barrier, the dividing wall of hostility...
