2 Samuel 23:6
But evil people are like thorns– all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.
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- Gen 3:18 : 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
- Deut 13:13 : 13 some evil people have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, saying,“Let’s go and serve other gods”(whom you have not known before).
- 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 But the sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not acknowledge the LORD’s authority.
- 2 Sam 20:1 : 1 Sheba’s Rebellion Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said,“We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!”
- Song 2:2 : 2 The Lover to His Beloved: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.
- Isa 33:12 : 12 The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.
- Ezek 2:6 : 6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words– even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions– do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house!
- Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.
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