Bible Cross References
a fountain
Proverbs 4:23
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
Isaiah 57:20
But evil people are like the restless sea, whose waves never stop rolling in, bringing filth and muck.
James 3:10-12
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Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My friends, this should not happen!
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No spring of water pours out sweet water and bitter water from the same opening.
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A fig tree, my friends, cannot bear olives; a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring produce sweet water.
violence
Jeremiah 20:8
Whenever I speak, I have to cry out and shout, "Violence! Destruction!" LORD, I am ridiculed and scorned all the time because I proclaim your message.
Psalm 55:9-11
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Confuse the speech of my enemies, O Lord! I see violence and riots in the city,
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surrounding it day and night, filling it with crime and trouble.
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There is destruction everywhere; the streets are full of oppression and fraud.
Ezekiel 7:11
Violence produces more wickedness. Nothing of theirs will remain, nothing of their wealth, their splendor, or their glory.
Ezekiel 7:23
"Everything is in confusion ---the land is full of murders and the cities are full of violence.
Ezekiel 22:3-12
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Tell the city what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.
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You are guilty of those murders and are defiled by the idols you made, and so your day is coming, your time is up! That is why I have let the nations make fun of you and all the countries sneer at you.
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Countries nearby and countries far away sneer at you because of your lawlessness.
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All Israel's leaders trust in their own strength and commit murder.
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None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.
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You have no respect for the holy places, and you don't keep the Sabbath.
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Some of your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. Some of them eat sacrifices offered to idols. Some are always satisfying their lusts.
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Some of them sleep with their father's wife. Some force women to have intercourse with them during their period.
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Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.
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Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 24:7
There was murder in the city, but the blood was not spilled on the ground where the dust could hide it; it was spilled on a bare rock.
Micah 2:1
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
Micah 2:2
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
Micah 2:8-10
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The LORD replies, "You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.
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You drive the women of my people out of the homes they love, and you have robbed their children of my blessings forever.
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Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.
Micah 3:1-3
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Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
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yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
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You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.
Micah 3:9-12
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Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.
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You are building God's city, Jerusalem, on a foundation of murder and injustice.
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The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money---and they all claim that the LORD is with them. "No harm will come to us," they say. "The LORD is with us."
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And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.
Micah 7:2
There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.
Micah 7:3
They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.