Proverbs 16:6

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Proverbs 16:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.

5 Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

6 By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

8 Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

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Proverbs 20:28

Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

Psalms 85:10

Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Luke 11:41

But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Proverbs 8:13

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

Proverbs 14:16

A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

Nehemiah 5:9

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Nehemiah 5:15

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Job 1:2

He had seven sons and three daughters,

Job 1:3

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Job 1:4

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:5

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

Job 1:6

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

Job 1:7

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

Job 1:8

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Job 28:28

And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Ephesians 5:21

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.