Proverbs 24:32

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Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it– I saw; I took in a lesson:

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 13:11 : 11 Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.
  • Deut 21:21 : 21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
  • Job 7:17 : 17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways!(Selah)
  • Luke 2:19 : 19 But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.
  • Luke 2:51 : 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.
  • 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
  • Jude 1:5-7 : 5 Now I desire to remind you(even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day. 7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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