Proverbs 28:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He that turneth away his eare from hearing the lawe, his prayer shalbe abhominable.

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  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had inclined vnto wickednes in my heart, the Lorde woulde not haue hearde me:
  • Ps 109:7 : 7 When sentence is geuen vpon hym, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sinne.
  • Zech 7:11-13 : 11 Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare: 12 Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them. 13 And thus is it come to passe, that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes:
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood. 16 Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll,
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.
  • Isa 58:7-9 : 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe? 8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thy health florishe right shortly: righteousnesse shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lorde shall embrace thee. 9 Then if thou callest, the Lorde shall aunswere thee, if thou cryest, he shall say, here I am: yea if thou layest away from thee thy burthens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceassest from vngracious talking: 10 If thou hast compassion vpon the hungrie, and refreshest the troubled soule: then shall thy light spring out in the darknesse, and thy darknesse shalbe as the noone day. 11 The Lorde shall euer be thy guyde, and satisfie the desire of thyne heart in the tyme of drought, and fill thy bones with mary: Thou shalt be like a freshe watred garden, and like the fountaine of water that neuer leaueth running.
  • Luke 13:25-27 : 25 When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are. 26 Then shall ye begyn to say: We haue eaten and dronken in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streates. 27 And he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not, whence ye are: depart from me all ye that worke iniquitie.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the tyme wyll come, when they shall not suffer wholsome doctrine: but after their owne lustes, shal they whose eares itche, get the an heape of teachers: 4 And shall turne away their hearyng from the trueth, and shalbe turned vnto fables.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 21:13
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    13 Who so stoppeth his eares at the crying of the poore, he shall crye hym selfe and not be hearde.

  • Prov 15:29
    74%

    29 The Lorde is farre from the vngodly: but he heareth the prayer of the ryghteous.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He that by vsurie and vniust gaynes gathereth riches: he shall lay them in store for a man that will pitie the poore.

  • Prov 28:4
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    4 They that forsake the lawe, prayse the vngodly: but such as kepe the lawe are greeued at them.

  • Prov 28:10
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    10 Who so causeth the righteous to go astray by an euill way, shall fall into his owne pit: but the iust shall haue the good in possession.

  • Prov 15:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.

    9 The way of the vngodly is an abhomination vnto the Lorde: but who so foloweth righteousnesse, him he loueth.

  • Prov 15:31-32
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    71%

    31 The eare that hearkeneth to the refourmation of lyfe, shall dwell among the wyse.

    32 He that refuseth to be refourmed, dispiseth his owne soule: but he that submitteth him selfe to correction, is wyse.

  • Prov 22:17
    71%

    17 Bowe downe thyne eare, and heare the wordes of the wise: applie thy mind vnto my doctrine:

  • Ps 66:18
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    18 If I had inclined vnto wickednes in my heart, the Lorde woulde not haue hearde me:

  • Prov 13:18
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    18 He that thinketh scorne to be refourmed, commeth to pouertie and shame: but who so regardeth correction, shall come to honour.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 Lest the Lorde when he seeth it be angry, and turne his wrath from hym vnto thee.

  • Job 36:10
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    10 He with punishing and nurturing of them, roundeth them in the eares, warneth them to leaue of from their wickednesse, and to amende.

  • Job 34:27-28
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    70%

    27 Because they tourned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

    28 Insomuch that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in trouble.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He that leadeth a godly life, and speaketh the trueth, he that abhorreth gaynes by violence and deceipt, he that kepeth his hande that he touche no rewarde, which stoppeth his eares that he heare no counsayle agaynst the innocent blood, which holdeth downe his eyes that he see no euyll:

  • Zech 7:11
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    11 Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare:

  • Prov 28:27
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    27 He that geueth vnto the poore shall not lacke: but he that hydeth his eyes from them, shall haue many a curse.

  • Prov 19:27
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    27 My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.

  • Prov 29:1
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    1 He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe.

  • 1 Pet 3:12
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    12 For the eyes of the Lorde are ouer the ryghteous, and his eares are open vnto their prayers: Againe, the face of the Lorde is ouer them that do euyll.

  • Isa 28:23
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    23 Heare ye then, and hearken vnto my voyce, consider and ponder my speache.

  • Deut 30:17
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    17 But and yf thine heart turne away, so that thou wylt not heare, but shalt go astray and worship straunge gods, and serue them:

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 The righteous abhorreth the vngodlye: and the wicked hateth hym that is in the ryght way.

  • Ps 50:17
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    17 Seyng that thou hatest discipline: and hast cast my wordes behynde thee.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 Yea the Lorde hym selfe tolde the same vnto them that forsoke his lawe, and kept not the thing that he gaue them in commaundement, neither liued thereafter:

  • Prov 29:24
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    24 Who so is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: he heareth blasphemie and telleth it not foorth.

  • Job 15:4
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    4 Surely thou hast cast of feare, and restrainest prayer before God.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 A wicked body geueth heede to false lippes, and a lyer geueth eare to a deceiptfull tongue.

  • Jer 6:19
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    19 Heare thou earth also: behold, I wyll cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations, for that they haue not ben obedient vnto my wordes and to my lawe, but abhorred them.

  • Ps 34:15
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    15 The eyes of God are ouer the righteous: and his eares are open vnto their prayers.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My sonne, heare thy fathers doctrine, & forsake not the lawe of thy mother:

  • Deut 30:10
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    10 If thou hearken only vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe his commaundementes and his ordinaunces which are written in the booke of this lawe, and if thou turne vnto the Lorde thy God with all thine heart and all thy soule.)

  • Eccl 5:1
    69%

    1 When thou commest into the house of God, kepe thy foote and drawe nye, that God which is at hande may heare that thou geue not the offerynges of fooles: for they knowe naught but to do euyll.

  • Isa 59:2
    69%

    2 But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not.

  • Prov 8:33
    69%

    33 O geue eare vnto nurture, be wyse, and refuse it not:

  • Ps 17:1
    69%

    1 A prayer of Dauid. Heare thou O God of iustice, be attentiue vnto my complaynt: geue eare vnto my prayer, not proceeding out of fayned lyppes.

  • Isa 1:15
    69%

    15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood.

  • Mic 3:4
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    4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he wyll not heare them: he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes.

  • Rev 13:9
    69%

    9 If any man haue an eare, let hym heare.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20 My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:

  • Prov 10:17
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    17 Nurture kepeth the way of lyfe: but he that refuseth to be nurtured, deceaueth hym selfe.

  • Deut 28:15
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    15 But and if thou wilt not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to kepe and to do all his commaundementes and his ordinaunces whiche I commaunde thee this day, all these curses shal come vpon thee and ouertake thee.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6 Better is he that walketh in his vprightnes: then he that peruerteth his wayes, and is riche.

  • Ps 86:6
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    6 Geue eare O God vnto my prayer: and be attentiue vnto the voyce of my humble petitions.

  • Prov 13:13
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    13 Who so dispiseth the worde, shall perishe for the same: but he that feareth the commaundement, shall haue the rewarde.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21 Take no heede vnto euery word that is spoken, lest thou heare thy seruaunt curse thee:

  • Ps 78:1
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    1 A wise instruction of Asaph. Heare my lawe O my people: enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 2:2
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    2 That thou wylt encline thine eares vnto wisdome: applye thine heart then to vnderstandyng.