Job 36:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, then for euil doing.
  • 1 Pet 4:15-16 : 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
  • Job 34:7-9 : 7 What man is like Iob, that drinketh scornfulnesse like water? 8 Which goeth in the companie of them that worke iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men? 9 For he hath saide, It profiteth a man nothing that he should walke with God.
  • Job 35:3 : 3 For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?
  • Ezek 14:4 : 4 Therefore speake vnto them, and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God, Euery man of the house of Israel that setteth vp his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to the Prophet, I the Lorde will answere him that commeth, according to the multitude of his idoles:
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the King, O Nebuchad-nezzar, we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter. 17 Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hote fierie fornace, and hee will deliuer vs out of thine hand, O King. 18 But if not, bee it knowen to thee, O King, that wee will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set vp.
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 Now when Daniel vnderstood that he had sealed the writing, hee went into his house, and his window being open in his chamber toward Ierusalem, he kneeled vpon his knees three times a day, and prayed and praysed his God, as he did aforetime.
  • Matt 5:29-30 : 29 Wherefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, plucke it out, & cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
  • Matt 13:21 : 21 Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and followe me.
  • Acts 5:40-41 : 40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commaunded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe. 41 So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his Name.

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    19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

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    18Least the Lorde see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.

    19Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.

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    4Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

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    8And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,

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    23For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.

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    6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?

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    4For thou art not a God that loueth wickednes: neither shall euill dwell with thee.

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    3I wil set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the worke of them that fall away: it shal not cleaue vnto me.