• Ecclesiastes 9:13
    This wisdom I have also seen under the sun, and it seemed great to me:
     
  • Ecclesiastes 10:5-20
    There is an evil I have seen under the sun,
    As an error proceeding from the ruler:
    Folly is set in great dignity,
    While the rich sit in a lowly place.
    I have seen servants on horses,
    While princes walk on the ground like servants.
    He who digs a pit will fall into it,
    And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.
    He who quarries stones may be hurt by them,
    And he who splits wood may be endangered by it.
    If the ax is dull,
    And one does not sharpen the edge,
    Then he must use more strength;
    But wisdom brings success.
    A serpent may bite when it is not charmed;
    The babbler is no different.
    The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious,
    But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up;
    The words of his mouth begin with foolishness,
    And the end of his talk is raving madness.
    A fool also multiplies words.
    No man knows what is to be;
    Who can tell him what will be after him?
    The labor of fools wearies them,
    For they do not even know how to go to the city!
    Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,
    And your princes feast in the morning!
    Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles,
    And your princes feast at the proper time—
    For strength and not for drunkenness!
    Because of laziness the building decays,
    And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
    A feast is made for laughter,
    And wine makes merry;
    But money answers everything.
    Do not curse the king, even in your thought;
    Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom;
    For a bird of the air may carry your voice,
    And a bird in flight may tell the matter.
     
  • Jeremiah 17:9
    " The heart is deceitful above all things,
    And desperately wicked;
    Who can know it?

     
  • Micah 3:1-12
    And I said:
    “ Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
    And you rulers of the house of Israel:
    Is itnot for you to know justice?
    You who hate good and love evil;
    Who strip the skin from My people,
    And the flesh from their bones;
    Who also eat the flesh of My people,
    Flay their skin from them,
    Break their bones,
    And chop them in pieces
    Like meat for the pot,
    Like flesh in the caldron.”
    Then they will cry to the LORD,
    But He will not hear them;
    He will even hide His face from them at that time,
    Because they have been evil in their deeds.
    Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets
    Who make my people stray;
    Who chant “Peace”
    While they chew with their teeth,
    But who prepare war against him
    Who puts nothing into their mouths:
    “ Therefore you shall have night without vision,
    And you shall have darkness without divination;
    The sun shall go down on the prophets,
    And the day shall be dark for them.
    So the seers shall be ashamed,
    And the diviners abashed;
    Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
    For there is no answer from God.”
    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.
    Now hear this,
    You heads of the house of Jacob
    And rulers of the house of Israel,
    Who abhor justice
    And pervert all equity,
    Who build up Zion with bloodshed
    And Jerusalem with iniquity:
    Her heads judge for a bribe,
    Her priests teach for pay,
    And her prophets divine for money.
    Yet they lean on the LORD, and say,
    “ Is not the LORD among us?
    No harm can come upon us.”
    Therefore because of you
    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.
     
  • 1 Timothy 2:1-4
    Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
     
  • James 1:19
    So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
     
  • 2 Samuel 7:16
    And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever."""
     
  • 1 Kings 4:25
    And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, each man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
     
  • 1 Kings 12:1-17
    And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king. So it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was still in Egypt, for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon and had been dwelling in Egypt), that they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” So he said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” And the people departed. Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, and he said, “How do you advise me to answer these people?” And they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. And he said to them, “What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” Then the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you should speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us’—thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s waist! And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!’” So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had directed, saying, “Come back to me the third day.” Then the king answered the people roughly, and rejected the advice which the elders had given him; and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!” So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying:
    “What share have we in David?
    We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
    To your tents, O Israel!
    Now, see to your own house, O David!” So Israel departed to their tents. But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 36:22
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
     
  • Ezra 1:1
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
     
  • Psalm 23:1-4
    The LORD is my shepherd;
    I shall not want.
    He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
    He leads me beside the still waters.
    He restores my soul;
    He leads me in the paths of righteousness
    For His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
    I will fear no evil;
    For You are with me;
    Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
     
  • Psalm 100:3
    Know that the LORD, He is God;
    It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
    We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
     
  • Psalm 127:3
    Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
    The fruit of the womb is a reward.

     
  • Proverbs 10:14
    Wise people store up knowledge,
    But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

     
  • Proverbs 10:19
    In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
    But he who restrains his lips is wise.

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

     
  • Proverbs 16:7
    When a man’s ways please the LORD,
    He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

     
  • Proverbs 18:7
    A fool's mouth is his destruction,
    And his lips are the snare of his soul.

     
  • Proverbs 18:9
    He who is slothful in his work
    Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.

     
  • Proverbs 21:1
    The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD,
    Like the rivers of water;
    He turns it wherever He wishes.

     
  • Proverbs 24:21-22
    My son, fear the LORD and the king;
    Do not associate with those given to change;
    For their calamity will rise suddenly,
    And who knows the ruin those two can bring?
     
  • Proverbs 26:2
    Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow,
    So a curse without cause shall not alight.

     
  • Isaiah 2:4
    He shall judge between the nations,
    And rebuke many people;
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    And their spears into pruning hooks;
    Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    Neither shall they learn war anymore.
     
  • Isaiah 2:19-21
    They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
    And into the caves of the earth,
    From the terror of the LORD
    And the glory of His majesty,
    When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
    In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
    And his idols of gold,
    Which they made, each for himself to worship,
    To the moles and bats,
    To go into the clefts of the rocks,
    And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
    From the terror of the LORD
    And the glory of His majesty,
    When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

     
  • Isaiah 9:6-7
    For unto us a Child is born,
    Unto us a Son is given;
    And the government will be upon His shoulder.
    And His name will be called
    Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
    Of the increase of His government and peace
    There will be no end,
    Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
    To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
    From that time forward, even forever.
    The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
     
  • Isaiah 13:13
    Therefore I will shake the heavens,
    And the earth will move out of her place,
    In the wrath of the LORD of hosts
    And in the day of His fierce anger.

     
  • Isaiah 40:10-11
    Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong hand,
    And His arm shall rule for Him;
    Behold, His reward is with Him,
    And His work before Him.
    He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
    He will gather the lambs with His arm,
    And carry them in His bosom,
    And gently lead those who are with young.

     
  • Isaiah 59:2
    But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
    And your sins have hidden His face from you,
    So that He will not hear.

     
  • Isaiah 60:12
    For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish,
    And those nations shall be utterly ruined.

     
  • Daniel 4:17
    "This decision is by the decree of the watchers,
    And the sentence by the word of the holy ones,
    In order that the living may know
    That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,
    Gives it to whomever He will,
    And sets over it the lowest of men."
     
  • Daniel 5:18-22
    O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses. 'But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this.
     
  • Daniel 5:24-28
    Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written. 'And this is the inscription that was written:
    MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEK: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'
     
  • Amos 8:11-12
    "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD,
    "That I will send a famine on the land,
    Not a famine of bread,
    Nor a thirst for water,
    But of hearing the words of the LORD.
    They shall wander from sea to sea,
    And from north to east;
    They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD,
    But shall not find it.

     
  • Micah 1:1
    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.
     
  • Micah 2:1-3
    Woe to those who devise iniquity,
    And work out evil on their beds!
    At morning light they practice it,
    Because it is in the power of their hand.
    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.

     
  • Micah 2:12
    “ 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.

     
  • Micah 4:2-13
    Many nations shall come and say,
    “ Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
    To the house of the God of Jacob;
    He will teach us His ways,
    And we shall walk in His paths.”
    For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
    And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
    He shall judge between many peoples,
    And rebuke strong nations afar off;
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    And their spears into pruning hooks;
    Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    Neither shall they learn war anymore.
    But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,
    And no one shall make them afraid;
    For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
    For all people walk each in the name of his god,
    But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
    Forever and ever. “ In that day,” says the LORD,
    “ I will assemble the lame,
    I will gather the outcast
    And those whom I have afflicted;
    I will make the lame a remnant,
    And the outcast a strong nation;
    So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion
    From now on, even forever.
    And you, O tower of the flock,
    The stronghold of the daughter of Zion,
    To you shall it come,
    Even the former dominion shall come,
    The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.'
    Now why do you cry aloud?
    Is thereno king in your midst?
    Has your counselor perished?
    For pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.
    Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
    O daughter of Zion,
    Like a woman in birth pangs.
    For now you shall go forth from the city,
    You shall dwell in the field,
    And to Babylon you shall go.
    There you shall be delivered;
    There the LORD will redeem you
    From the hand of your enemies.
    Now also many nations have gathered against you,
    Who say, “Let her be defiled,
    And let our eye look upon Zion.”
    But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD,
    Nor do they understand His counsel;
    For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
    “ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
    For I will make your horn iron,
    And I will make your hooves bronze;
    You shall beat in pieces many peoples;
    I will consecrate their gain to the LORD,
    And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.”
     
  • Micah 5:2-5
    ' But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
    Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
    The One to be Ruler in Israel,
    Whose goings forth are from of old,
    From everlasting.'
    Therefore He shall give them up,
    Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth;
    Then the remnant of His brethren
    Shall return to the children of Israel.
    And He shall stand and feed His flock
    In the strength of the LORD,
    In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God;
    And they shall abide,
    For now He shall be great
    To the ends of the earth;
    And this One shall be peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land,
    And when he treads in our palaces,
    Then we will raise against him
    Seven shepherds and eight princely men.

     
  • Micah 6:8
    He has shown you, O man, what is good;
    And what does the LORD require of you
    But to do justly,
    To love mercy,
    And to walk humbly with your God?
     
  • Haggai 2:6-7
    “For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory," says the LORD of hosts.
     
  • Matthew 1:21
    And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."
     
  • Matthew 2:4-6
    And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:
    ‘ But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
    Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
    For out of you shall come a Ruler
    Who will shepherd My people Israel.’”
     
  • Matthew 4:23
    And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
     
  • Matthew 9:35-36
    Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
     
  • Matthew 11:28-30
    Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
     
  • Matthew 18:6-7
    'Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
     
  • Matthew 24:14
    And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
     
  • Matthew 24:22
    And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
     
  • Mark 1:14-15
    Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."
     
  • Mark 13:20
    And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days.
     
  • Luke 4:16-19
    So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
    "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
    Because He has anointed Me
    To preach the gospel to the poor;
    He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
    To proclaim liberty to the captives
    And recovery of sight to the blind,
    To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
    To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."
     
  • Luke 4:43
    but He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."
     
  • Luke 8:1
    Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him,
     
  • Luke 12:21
    "So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
     
  • Luke 16:11
    Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
     
  • Luke 16:16
    "The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.
     
  • John 10:11
    “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
     
  • John 10:14-15
    I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
     
  • Acts 2:23
    Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
     
  • Acts 5:29
    But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.
     
  • Acts 24:17
    “Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
     
  • Acts 26:4
    "My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.
     
  • Acts 28:19
    But when the Jews spoke against     it , I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation.
     
  • Romans 2:4
    Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
     
  • Romans 5:6-8
    For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
     
  • Romans 11:33
    Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

     
  • 1 Corinthians 3:3-4
    for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal?
     
  • 2 Corinthians 8:9
    For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
     
  • Galatians 1:14
    And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
     
  • Galatians 5:20
    idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
     
  • Ephesians 1:7
    In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
     
  • Ephesians 2:4
    But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
     
  • Colossians 4:5-6
    Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
     
  • Hebrews 7:3
    without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.
     
  • Hebrews 10:31
    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
     
  • Hebrews 12:27-28
    Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
     
  • James 3:1-12
    My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
     
  • 1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
     
  • Revelation 11:15-18
    Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!' And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:
    ' We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,
    The One who is and who was and who is to come,
    Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
    The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
    And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
    And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
    And those who fear Your name, small and great,
    And should destroy those who destroy the earth."