1 Kings 2:44

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.

“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.