Exodus 22:28

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

“ ‘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.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”

Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’ ” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”