Luke 3:14

World English Bible (2000)

Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."

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  • Exod 23:1 : 1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
  • Phil 4:11 : 11 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
  • 1 Tim 6:8-9 : 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you." 6 So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
  • Lev 19:11 : 11 "'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another.
  • Exod 20:16 : 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
  • Matt 8:5 : 5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
  • Luke 19:8 : 8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
  • Acts 10:7 : 7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
  • Rom 13:9-9 : 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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