2 Peter 2:8

World English Bible (2000)

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

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  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.
  • Prov 25:26 : 26 Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
  • Mal 3:15-17 : 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.' 16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name. 17 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

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