Bible Cross References
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Job 1:8-12
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"Did you notice my servant Job?" the LORD asked. "There is no one on earth as faithful and good as he is. He worships me and is careful not to do anything evil."
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Satan replied, "Would Job worship you if he got nothing out of it?
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You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does, and you have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.
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But now suppose you take away everything he has---he will curse you to your face!"
12
"All right," the LORD said to Satan, "everything he has is in your power, but you must not hurt Job himself." So Satan left.
Job 2:3-6
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"Did you notice my servant Job?" the LORD asked. "There is no one on earth as faithful and good as he is. He worships me and is careful not to do anything evil. You persuaded me to let you attack him for no reason at all, but Job is still as faithful as ever."
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Satan replied, "A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.
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But now suppose you hurt his body---he will curse you to your face!"
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So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power, but you are not to kill him."
Job 21:27
I know what spiteful thoughts you have.
Job 22:5-30
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No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.
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To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.
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You refused water to those who were tired, and refused to feed those who were hungry.
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You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.
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You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.
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So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.
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It has grown so dark that you cannot see, and a flood overwhelms you.
12
Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?
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And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds---how can he judge us?"
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You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.
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Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?
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Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.
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These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.
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And yet it was God who made them prosperous--- I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.
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Good people are glad and the innocent laugh when they see the wicked punished.
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All that the wicked own is destroyed, and fire burns up anything that is left.
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Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.
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Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.
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Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.
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Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.
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Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.
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Then you will always trust in God and find that he is the source of your joy.
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When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.
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You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path.
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God brings down the proud and saves the humble.
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He will rescue you if you are innocent, if what you do is right.
Job 32:3
He was also angry with Job's three friends. They could not find any way to answer Job, and this made it appear that God was in the wrong.
Job 42:7
After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.
Luke 13:2-5
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Jesus answered them, "Because those Galileans were killed in that way, do you think it proves that they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?
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No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.
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What about those eighteen people in Siloam who were killed when the tower fell on them? Do you suppose this proves that they were worse than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
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No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did."
Acts 28:4
The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, "This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea."
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John 11:4
When Jesus heard it, he said, "The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory."
John 11:40
Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?"
John 14:11-13
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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the things I do.
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I am telling you the truth: those who believe in me will do what I do---yes, they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father.
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And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.
Matthew 11:5
the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.
Acts 4:21
So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the people were all praising God for what had happened.