Ecclesiastes 8:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Who so kepeth the commaundement, shall fele no harme: but a wyse mans herte discerneth tyme and maner:

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  • Exod 1:17 : 17 Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God, & dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them, but let the children lyue.
  • Exod 1:20-21 : 20 Therfore God dealt well with the mydwyues. And the people multiplied, and became exceadinge mightie. 21 And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God, he made them houses.
  • 1 Chr 12:32 : 32 Of the children of Isachar (which were men of vnderstondynge, whan nede requyred to knowe what Israel shulde do) two hundreth captaynes, and all their brethren folowed their worde.
  • Ps 119:6 : 6 So shulde I not be confounded, whyle I haue respecte vnto all thy commaundementes.
  • Prov 17:24 : 24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.
  • Eccl 2:14 : 14 For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.
  • Eccl 8:2 : 2 Kepe the kynges commaundemet (I warne the) & the ooth yt thou hast made vnto God.
  • Eccl 10:2 : 2 A wyse mans hert is vpon the right hande, but a fooles hert is vpon the left.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, and can haue no right of the lawe: for why? they folowe ye doctrynes of men.
  • Luke 12:56-57 : 56 O ye ypocrytes, ye can discerne the fashion of the skye and of the earth: Why can ye not discerne this tyme also? 57 Yee and why iugde ye not of youre selues, what is right?
  • Luke 20:25 : 25 Then sayde he vnto them: Geue the vnto the Emperoure, that which is the Emperours: & vnto God, that which is Gods.
  • Acts 4:19 : 19 But Peter & Ihon answered, and sayde vnto the: Iudge ye youre selues, whether it be right before God, that we shulde be more obedient vnto you, then vnto God.
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayde: We ought more to obeye God then men.
  • Rom 13:5-7 : 5 Wherfore ye must nedes obeye, not onely for punyshmet, but also because of conscience. 6 For this cause must ye geue trybute also. For they are Gods mynisters, which mateyne ye same defence. 7 Geue to euery man therfore his dutye: tribute, to whom tribute belongeth: custome, to whom custome is due: feare, to whom feare belongeth: honoure, to whom honoure pertayneth.
  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spirituall, discusseth all thinges, and he is iudged of no man.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And for the same I praye, yt yor loue maye increace more & more in all maner of knowlege and in all experience, 10 yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ:
  • Col 1:9 : 9 For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge,
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But stronge meate belongeth vnto them yt are perfecte, which thorow custome haue their wyttes exercysed to iudge both good and euell.
  • 1 Pet 3:13-14 : 13 And who is it that can harme you, yf ye folowe that which is good? 14 Not withstodinge blessed are ye, yf ye suffre for righteousnes sake Feare not ye their threatnynge, nether be troubled,

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