Psalms 73:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.

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  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.
  • Ps 14:5 : 5 There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous.
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
  • Ps 24:6 : 6 This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 ‹But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and› [that] ‹he were drowned in the depth of the sea.› 7 ¶ ‹Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!›
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-13 : 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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    31¶ Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:

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  • 18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

  • 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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    30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

    31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

  • Job 31:33-34
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    33¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

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  • 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?

  • 4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

  • 17¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;

  • 20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • 15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

  • 35[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

  • 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

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    27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

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    29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

    30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

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  • 5He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

  • 7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

  • 19Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

  • 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

  • 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

  • 24¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

  • 20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

  • 2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

  • 21These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

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  • 5If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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  • 10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

  • 9¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

  • 11I said in my haste, All men [are] liars.

  • 16For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

  • 5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

  • 12For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

  • 8¶ Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying],

  • 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • 15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • 15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.