1 Kings 8:32
then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
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- Deut 25:1 : 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
- Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.
- Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- Ezek 18:13 : 13 has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.
- Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
- Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
- Rom 2:6-9 : 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek. 10 But glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
- Rom 2:13 : 13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- Rom 7:9 : 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Exod 23:7 : 7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Exod 34:7 : 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Num 5:27 : 27 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
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21 Listen you to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
23 then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
24 If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
25 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
- 1 Kgs 8:33-364 verses78%
33 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:
34 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
35 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
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45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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38 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
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30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)
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30 Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.
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49 then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
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8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.
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5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
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1 > God, give the king your justice; Your righteousness to the royal son.
2 He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
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5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
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2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look on equity.
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7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
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15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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2 "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.
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