Proverbs 25:26

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Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

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  • Gen 4:8 : 8 Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let’s go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
  • 1 Sam 22:14-18 : 14 Ahimelech answered the king, 'Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and highly respected in your house?' 15 Was this the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse me or any of my father's family, for your servant knows nothing about this whole affair—whether great or small.' 16 The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.' 17 Then the king ordered the guards standing by him, 'Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they are allies of David. They knew he was fleeing but didn’t inform me.' But the king's servants were unwilling to raise their hands to strike the priests of the Lord. 18 The king then commanded Doeg, 'Turn and strike down the priests!' So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
  • 2 Chr 24:21-22 : 21 But they conspired against him, and at the king's command, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the Lord. 22 King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him but killed his son. As Zechariah was dying, he said, 'May the Lord see this and call you to account.'
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, 'You consider yourself like a young lion among the nations, but you are like a sea monster in the seas; you thrash about in your rivers, stir the waters with your feet, and muddy their streams.'
  • Ezek 34:18-19 : 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pastures? Must you also trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?
  • Matt 23:34-37 : 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Matt 26:69-74 : 69 Meanwhile, Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean." 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about." 71 Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to those standing there, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth." 72 And again he denied it with an oath: "I do not know the man!" 73 A little while later, those standing there approached Peter and said, "Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away." 74 Then Peter began to call down curses and swore to them, "I do not know the man!" Immediately, a rooster crowed.
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly amazed.

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