2 Chronicles 16:9

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Certainly the LORD watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.”

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  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes will joyfully look on the tin tablet in Zerubbabel’s hand.(These are the eyes of the LORD, which constantly range across the whole earth.)
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
  • 1 Pet 3:12 : 12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.
  • Ps 34:15 : 15 The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help.
  • 2 Chr 6:20 : 20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • Job 34:21 : 21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.
  • Ps 113:6 : 6 He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.
  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 Then Samuel said to Saul,“You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!
  • 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 Nathan said to David,“You are that man! This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house, and put your master’s wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all that somehow seems insignificant, I would have given you so much more as well! 9 Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 11 This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight! 12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”
  • 1 Kgs 15:32 : 32 Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 “Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 1 Chr 21:8 : 8 David said to God,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
  • Job 34:18-19 : 18 who says to a king,‘Worthless man’ and to nobles,‘Wicked men,’ 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
  • Gal 3:1 : 1 Justification by Law or by Faith? You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!
  • Ps 37:37 : 37 Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the upright! For the one who promotes peace has a future.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • 1 Cor 15:36 : 36 Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

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