Bible Cross References
the law
Psalm 11:3
There is nothing a good person can do when everything falls apart."
Psalm 119:126
LORD, it is time for you to act, because people are disobeying your law.
Mark 7:9
And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
Romans 3:31
Does this mean that by this faith we do away with the Law? No, not at all; instead, we uphold the Law.
for
1 Kings 21:13
The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.
Job 21:7
Why does God let evil people live, let them grow old and prosper?
Psalm 22:16
An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet.
Psalm 58:1
Do you rulers ever give a just decision? Do you judge everyone fairly?
Psalm 58:2
No! You think only of the evil you can do, and commit crimes of violence in the land.
Psalm 59:2
Save me from those evil people; rescue me from those murderers!
Psalm 59:4
nor because of any fault of mine, O LORD, that they hurry to their places.
Psalm 82:1-5
1
God presides in the heavenly council; in the assembly of the gods he gives his decision:
2
"You must stop judging unjustly; you must no longer be partial to the wicked!
3
Defend the rights of the poor and the orphans; be fair to the needy and the helpless.
4
Rescue them from the power of evil people.
5
"How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.
Psalm 94:3
How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, LORD?
Psalm 94:20
You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,
Psalm 94:21
who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.
Isaiah 1:21-23
21
The city that once was faithful is behaving like a whore! At one time it was filled with righteous people, but now only murderers remain.
22
Jerusalem, you were once like silver, but now you are worthless; you were like good wine, but now you are only water.
23
Your leaders are rebels and friends of thieves; they are always accepting gifts and bribes. They never defend orphans in court or listen when widows present their case.
Isaiah 59:2-8
2
It is because of your sins that he doesn't hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him.
3
You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.
4
You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others.
5
The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good---they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!
6
(SEE 59:5)
7
You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,
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and no one is safe when you are around. Everything you do is unjust. You follow a crooked path, and no one who walks that path will ever be safe.
Isaiah 59:13-15
13
We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.
14
Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.
15
There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime." The LORD has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.
Jeremiah 5:27-29
27
Just as a hunter fills a cage with birds, they have filled their houses with loot. That is why they are powerful and rich,
28
why they are fat and well fed. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They do not give orphans their rights or show justice to the oppressed.
29
"But I, the LORD, will punish them for these things; I will take revenge on this nation.
Jeremiah 12:1
" LORD, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?
Jeremiah 12:6
Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words."
Jeremiah 26:8
and as soon as I had finished all that the LORD had commanded me to speak, they grabbed me and shouted, "You ought to be killed for this!
Jeremiah 26:21-23
21
When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.
22
King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men to Egypt to get Uriah.
23
They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)
Jeremiah 37:14-16
14
I answered, "That's not so! I'm not deserting." But Irijah would not listen to me. Instead, he arrested me and took me to the officials.
15
They were furious with me and had me beaten and locked up in the house of Jonathan, the court secretary, whose house had been made into a prison.
16
I was put in an underground cell and kept there a long time.
Jeremiah 38:4-6
4
Then the officials went to the king and said, "This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage, and he is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people; he only wants to hurt them."
5
King Zedekiah answered, "Very well, then, do what you want to with him; I can't stop you."
6
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
Ezekiel 22:25-30
25
The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
26
The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
27
The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
28
The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
29
The wealthy cheat and rob. They mistreat the poor and take advantage of foreigners.
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.
Hosea 10:4
They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
Amos 5:7
You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!
Amos 5:12
I know how terrible your sins are and how many crimes you have committed. You persecute good people, take bribes, and prevent the poor from getting justice in the courts.
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 3:1-3
1
Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,
2
yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
3
You eat my people up. You strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot.
Micah 7:2-4
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.
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.
4
Even the best and most honest of them are as worthless as weeds. The day has come when God will punish the people, as he warned them through their watchmen, the prophets. Now they are in confusion.
Matthew 23:34-36
34
And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
35
As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
36
I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
Matthew 26:59-66
59
The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some false evidence against Jesus to put him to death;
60
but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up
61
and said, "This man said, 'I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.' "
62
The High Priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Have you no answer to give to this accusation against you?"
63
But Jesus kept quiet. Again the High Priest spoke to him, "In the name of the living God I now put you under oath: tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God."
64
Jesus answered him, "So you say. But I tell all of you: from this time on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right side of the Almighty and coming on the clouds of heaven!"
65
At this the High Priest tore his clothes and said, "Blasphemy! We don't need any more witnesses! You have just heard his blasphemy!
66
What do you think?" They answered, "He is guilty and must die."
Matthew 27:1
Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death.
Matthew 27:2
They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.
Matthew 27:25
The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"
Matthew 27:26
Then Pilate set Barabbas free for them; and after he had Jesus whipped, he handed him over to be crucified.
Acts 7:52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
Acts 7:59
They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"
Acts 23:12-14
12
The next morning some Jews met together and made a plan. They took a vow that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
13
There were more than forty who planned this together.
14
Then they went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn vow together not to eat a thing until we have killed Paul.
James 2:6
But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!
James 2:7
They are the ones who speak evil of that good name which has been given to you.
wrong
Exodus 23:2
Do not follow the majority when they do wrong or when they give testimony that perverts justice.
Exodus 23:6
"Do not deny justice to a poor person when he appears in court.
Deuteronomy 16:19
They are not to be unjust or show partiality in their judgments; and they are not to accept bribes, for gifts blind the eyes even of wise and honest men, and cause them to give wrong decisions.
Ezekiel 9:9
God answered, "The people of Israel and Judah are guilty of terrible sins. They have committed murder all over the land and have filled Jerusalem with crime. They say that I, the LORD, have abandoned their country and that I don't see them.