Proverbs 29:8
kScornful men 4bring a city into a snare: lbut wise men turn away wrath.
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
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Isaiah 28:14 ¶Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Proverbs 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Ezekiel 23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
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Or, set a city on fire.
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Psalms 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
James 5:15-18 15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.