Bible Cross References
Scornful
Proverbs 11:11
A city becomes great when the righteous give it their blessing; but a city is brought to ruin by the words of the wicked.
Isaiah 28:14-22
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Now you arrogant leaders who rule here in Jerusalem over this people, listen to what the LORD is saying.
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You boast that you have made a treaty with death and reached an agreement with the world of the dead. You are certain that disaster will spare you when it comes, because you depend on lies and deceit to keep you safe.
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This, now, is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I am placing in Zion a foundation that is firm and strong. In it I am putting a solid cornerstone on which are written the words, 'Faith that is firm is also patient.'
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Justice will be the measuring line for the foundation, and honesty will be its plumb line." Hailstorms will sweep away all the lies you depend on, and floods will destroy your security.
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The treaty you have made with death will be abolished, and your agreement with the world of the dead will be canceled. When disaster sweeps down, you will be overcome.
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It will strike you again and again, morning after morning. You will have to bear it day and night. Each new message from God will bring new terror!
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You will be like the person in the proverb, who tries to sleep in a bed too short to stretch out on, with a blanket too narrow to wrap himself in.
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The LORD will fight as he did at Mount Perazim and in the valley of Gibeon, in order to do what he intends to do---strange as his actions may seem. He will complete his work, his mysterious work.
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Don't laugh at the warning I am giving you! If you do, it will be even harder for you to escape. I have heard the LORD Almighty's decision to destroy the whole country.
Matthew 27:39-43
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People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus:
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"You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!"
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In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and the elders made fun of him:
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"He saved others, but he cannot save himself ! Isn't he the king of Israel? If he will come down off the cross now, we will believe in him!
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He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"
John 9:40
Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, "Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?"
John 9:41
Jesus answered, "If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty."
John 11:47-50
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So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, "What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing!
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If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation!"
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One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, "What fools you are!
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Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?"
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!
bring a city into a snare
James 3:5
So it is with the tongue: small as it is, it can boast about great things. Just think how large a forest can be set on fire by a tiny flame!
James 3:6
And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.
wise
Exodus 32:10-14
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Now, don't try to stop me. I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation."
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But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God and said, " LORD, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?
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Why should the Egyptians be able to say that you led your people out of Egypt, planning to kill them in the mountains and destroy them completely? Stop being angry; change your mind and do not bring this disaster on your people.
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Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever."
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So the LORD changed his mind and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Numbers 16:48
This stopped the plague, and he was left standing between the living and the dead.
Numbers 25:11
"Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.
Deuteronomy 9:18-20
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Then once again I lay face downward in the LORD's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the LORD and had made him angry.
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I was afraid of the LORD's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the LORD listened to me.
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The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time.
2 Samuel 24:16
When the LORD's angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD changed his mind about punishing the people and said to the angel who was killing them, "Stop! That's enough!" The angel was by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:17
David saw the angel who was killing the people, and said to the LORD, "I am the guilty one. I am the one who did wrong. What have these poor people done? You should punish me and my family."
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.
Ezekiel 22:30
I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
Amos 7:2-6
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In my vision I saw the locusts eat up every green thing in the land, and then I said, "Sovereign LORD, forgive your people! How can they survive? They are so small and weak!"
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The LORD changed his mind and said, "What you saw will not take place."
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I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw him preparing to punish his people with fire. The fire burned up the great ocean under the earth and started to burn up the land.
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Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign LORD! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"
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The LORD changed his mind again and said, "This will not take place either."
James 5:15-18
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This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.
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So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.
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Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.
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Once again he prayed, and the sky poured out its rain and the earth produced its crops.