1 Kings 8:39

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1 Kings 8:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

37 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

38 then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

39 be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—

40 so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

41 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

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then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8:36

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

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Psalms 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalms 18:22

For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

Psalms 18:23

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

Psalms 18:24

So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

Psalms 18:25

To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

Psalms 18:26

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Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

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I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Jeremiah 32:19

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Ezekiel 18:30

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Revelation 22:12

“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

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1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

2 Chronicles 6:30

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He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

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Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:13

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Revelation 2:23

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