The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

So it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said: "Rise up, O LORD! Let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You."

"and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Therefore the wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.

The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, But their fate would endure forever.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death."

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

"He who hates Me hates My Father also.

"If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God,

You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

So the king of Israel answered and said, "Tell [him,] 'Let not the one who puts on [his armor] boast like the one who takes [it off.'] "

"Indeed you say that you have defeated the Edomites, and your heart is lifted up to boast. Stay at home now; why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall -- you and Judah with you?"

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire; He blesses the greedy [and] renounces the LORD.

Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches,

To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of David when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech." Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God [endures] continually.

They utter speech, [and] speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship Him, all [you] gods.

"For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing.

not boasting of things beyond measure, [that is,] in other men's labors, but having hope, [that] as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere,

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

For when they speak great swelling [words] of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.

These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling [words,] flattering people to gain advantage.

You answered them, O LORD our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, Though You took vengeance on their deeds.

Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.

Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes."

" If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and [who,] when they have chastened him, will not heed them,

"And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

'Cursed [is] the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'

The eye [that] mocks [his] father, And scorns obedience to [his] mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

"In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

"For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'

"You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put [some] of you to death.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,