Genesis 44:17

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.” ’ ”

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

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

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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.

The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

He said, “Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.”

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

“Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

He said, “Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!