• Psalm 97:10
    You who love the LORD, hate evil!
    He preserves the souls of His saints;
    He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

     
  • Proverbs 16:9
    A man’s heart plans his way,
    But the LORD directs his steps.

     
  • Proverbs 24:16
    For a righteous man may fall seven times
    And rise again,
    But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

     
  • Micah 2:2-13
    They covet fields and take them by violence,
    Also houses, and seize them.
    So they oppress a man and his house,
    A man and his inheritance. Therefore thus says the LORD:
    “ Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,
    From which you cannot remove your necks;
    Nor shall you walk haughtily,
    For this is an evil time.
    In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
    And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
    ‘ We are utterly destroyed!
    He has changed the heritage of my people;
    How He has removed it from me!
    To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’”
    Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot
    In the assembly of the LORD. “ Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy.
    So they shall not prophesy to you;
    They shall not return insult for insult.
    You who are named the house of Jacob:
    “ Is the Spirit of the LORD restricted?
    Are these His doings?
    Do not My words do good
    To him who walks uprightly?
    “ Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—
    You pull off the robe with the garment
    From those who trust you, as they pass by,
    Like men returned from war.
    The women of My people you cast out
    From their pleasant houses;
    From their children
    You have taken away My glory forever.
    “ Arise and depart,
    For this is not your rest;
    Because it is defiled, it shall destroy,
    Yes, with utter destruction.
    If a man should walk in a false spirit
    And speak a lie, saying,
    ‘ I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,’
    Even he would be the prattler of this people. “ I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob,
    I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
    I will put them together like sheep of the fold,
    Like a flock in the midst of their pasture;
    They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
    The one who breaks open will come up before them;
    They will break out,
    Pass through the gate,
    And go out by it;
    Their king will pass before them,
    With the LORD at their head.”
     
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13
    No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
     
  • Galatians 6:9
    And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
     
  • Exodus 20:5
    you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
     
  • Exodus 20:17
    "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
     
  • Deuteronomy 12:9
    for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
     
  • Deuteronomy 30:19-20
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

     
  • 2 Samuel 1:19-20
    “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places!
    How the mighty have fallen! Tell it not in Gath,
    Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon—
    Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
    Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
     
  • 2 Kings 18:3-4
    And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done. He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
     
  • 2 Kings 19:10-12
    “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
     
  • Psalm 37:23-24
    The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
    And He delights in his way.
    Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
    For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
     
  • Psalm 95:11
    So I swore in My wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
     
  • Psalm 127:3
    Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    The fruit of the womb is a reward.

     
  • Proverbs 8:13
    The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
    Pride and arrogance and the evil way
    And the perverse mouth I hate.

     
  • Proverbs 14:12
    There is a way that seems right to a man,
    But its end is the way of death.

     
  • Proverbs 14:34
    Righteousness exalts a nation,
    But sin is a reproach to any people.

     
  • Proverbs 16:3
    Commit your works to the LORD,
    And your thoughts will be established.

     
  • Proverbs 16:25
    There is a way that seems right to a man,
    But its end is the way of death.

     
  • Proverbs 19:21
    There are many plans in a man’s heart,
    Nevertheless the LORD’s counsel—that will stand.

     
  • Isaiah 47:8-11
    “ Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
    Who dwell securely,
    Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
    I shall not sit as a widow,
    Nor shall I know the loss of children’;
    But these two things shall come to you
    In a moment, in one day:
    The loss of children, and widowhood.
    They shall come upon you in their fullness
    Because of the multitude of your sorceries,
    For the great abundance of your enchantments.
    “ For you have trusted in your wickedness;
    You have said, ‘No one sees me’;
    Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you;
    And you have said in your heart,
    ‘ I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
    Therefore evil shall come upon you;
    You shall not know from where it arises.
    And trouble shall fall upon you;
    You will not be able to put it off.
    And desolation shall come upon you suddenly,
    Which you shall not know.

     
  • Jeremiah 10:23
    O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself;
    It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

     
  • Jeremiah 26:4-6
    And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: “If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you, to heed the words of My servants the prophets whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded), then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
     
  • Jeremiah 26:18-19
    “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts:
    “ Zion shall be plowed like a field,
    Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
    And the mountain of the temple
    Like the bare hills of the forest.”’ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and seek the LORD’s favor? And the LORD relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. But we are doing great evil against ourselves.”
     
  • Amos 2:6-8
    Thus says the LORD:
    " For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
    I will not turn away its punishment,
    Because they sell the righteous for silver,
    And the poor for a pair of sandals.
    They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
    And pervert the way of the humble.
    A man and his father go in to the same girl,
    To defile My holy name.
    They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge,
    And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

     
  • Amos 3:15
    I will destroy the winter house along with the summer house;
    The houses of ivory shall perish,
    And the great houses shall have an end,"
    Says the LORD.
     
  • Amos 5:7
    You who turn justice to wormwood,
    And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!"

     
  • Amos 5:10
    They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,
    And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.

     
  • Amos 5:12
    For I know your manifold transgressions
    And your mighty sins:
    Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
    Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

     
  • Amos 5:15
    Hate evil, love good;
    Establish justice in the gate.
    It may be that the LORD God of hosts
    Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
     
  • Amos 6:4-7
    Who lie on beds of ivory,
    Stretch out on your couches,
    Eat lambs from the flock
    And calves from the midst of the stall;
    Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
    And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;
    Who drink wine from bowls,
    And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
    But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
    Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives,
    And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.

     
  • Amos 7:16
    Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD:
    You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel,
    And do not spout against the house of Isaac.'
     
  • Amos 8:4-6
    Hear this, you who swallow up the needy,
    And make the poor of the land fail, Saying:
    "When will the New Moon be past,
    That we may sell grain?
    And the Sabbath,
    That we may trade wheat?
    Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
    falsifying the scales by deceit,
    That we may buy the poor for silver,
    And the needy for a pair of sandals—
    Even sell the bad wheat?"

     
  • Micah 1:1-16
    The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, all you peoples!
    Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!
    Let the Lord GOD be a witness against you,
    The Lord from His holy temple.
    For behold, the LORD is coming out of His place;
    He will come down
    And tread on the high places of the earth.
    The mountains will melt under Him,
    And the valleys will split
    Like wax before the fire,
    Like waters poured down a steep place.
    All this is for the transgression of Jacob
    And for the sins of the house of Israel.
    What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not Samaria?
    And what are the high places of Judah?
    Are they not Jerusalem?
    “ Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,
    Places for planting a vineyard;
    I will pour down her stones into the valley,
    And I will uncover her foundations.
    All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
    All her idols I will lay desolate,
    For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
    And they shall return to the pay of a harlot.” Therefore I will wail and howl,
    I will go stripped and naked;
    I will make a wailing like the jackals
    And a mourning like the ostriches,
    For her wounds are incurable.
    For it has come to Judah;
    It has come to the gate of My people—
    To Jerusalem.
    Tell it not in Gath,
    Weep not at all;
    In Beth Aphrah
    Roll yourself in the dust.
    Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;
    The inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out.
    Beth Ezel mourns;
    Its place to stand is taken away from you.
    For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good,
    But disaster came down from the LORD
    To the gate of Jerusalem.
    O inhabitant of Lachish,
    Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
    (She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
    For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
    Therefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath;
    The houses of Achzibshall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
    I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah;
    The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
    Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
    Because of your precious children;
    Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,
    For they shall go from you into captivity.
     
  • Micah 3:8
    But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD,
    And of justice and might,
    To declare to Jacob his transgression
    And to Israel his sin.

     
  • Zechariah 4:6
    So he answered and said to me:
    " This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel:
    " Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,"
    Says the LORD of hosts.

     
  • Matthew 25:31-46
    "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me." "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?" And the King will answer and say to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me." "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me." "Then they also will answer Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?" Then He will answer them, saying, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me." And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
     
  • Luke 9:62
    But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
     
  • Luke 12:20-21
    But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?' "So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
     
  • John 6:44
    No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
     
  • Romans 5:3-4
    And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
     
  • Romans 13:9-10
    For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 1:27-31
    But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."
     
  • 1 Corinthians 15:58
    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
     
  • Galatians 5:22-23
    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
     
  • Ephesians 1:13-14
    In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
     
  • James 1:2-4
    My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
     
  • James 5:7-8
    Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
     
  • 1 Peter 1:7
    that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
     
  • 1 Peter 4:12
    Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;