Job 13:7

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Job 13:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

6 Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

7 Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

8 Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?

9 Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

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Job 4:7

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 11:2

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Job 11:3

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

Job 11:4

You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

Job 17:5

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

Job 32:21

I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.

Job 32:22

For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

Job 36:4

For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Romans 3:6

Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

Romans 3:7

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

Romans 3:8

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

2 Corinthians 4:2

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.