Proverbs 21:29

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Proverbs 21:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!

28 A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.

29 A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.

30 There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

31 A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.

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Proverbs 28:14

Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Proverbs 29:1

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Jeremiah 8:12

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Jeremiah 44:17

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Psalms 119:59

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

Haggai 1:5

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 1:7

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 2:15

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

Haggai 2:18

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:

Haggai 2:19

Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

Luke 15:17

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

Luke 15:18

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

1 Thessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.