2 Peter 2:8

American Standard Version (1901)

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):

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  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word.
  • Prov 25:26 : 26 [ As] a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [So is] a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
  • Mal 3:15-17 : 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape. 16 Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, [even] mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

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