Proverbs 15:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yahweh is far from the wicked, But he hears the prayer of the righteous.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 9:31 : 31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
  • Ps 145:18-19 : 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, To all who call on him in truth. 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • 1 Pet 3:12 : 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And his ears open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
  • Eph 2:12-13 : 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
  • Jas 5:16-18 : 16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened. 19 But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
  • Rom 8:26-27 : 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
  • Ps 34:15-17 : 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.
  • Ps 73:27 : 27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
  • Ps 18:41 : 41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

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  • Ps 34:15-19
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    15Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

    16Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

    17The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

    18Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves those who have a crushed spirit.

    19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

  • 1 Pet 3:12
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    12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And his ears open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But he loves him who follows after righteousness.

  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the righteous weighs answers, But the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

  • Prov 28:9
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    9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

  • Ps 119:155
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    155Salvation is far from the wicked, For they don't seek your statutes.

  • Ps 17:1
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    1> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

    30The righteous will never be removed, But the wicked will not dwell in the land.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 6:8-9
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    8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, For Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

    9Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

  • Ps 37:16-17
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    16Better is a little that the righteous has, Than the abundance of many wicked.

    17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But Yahweh upholds the righteous.

  • Prov 10:3
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    3Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, But he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

  • Job 22:18
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    18Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Ps 143:1
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    1> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

  • Isa 46:12
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    12Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

  • Job 21:16
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    16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Prov 3:32-33
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    32For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.

    33Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, But he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

  • Prov 14:32
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    32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.

  • Ps 102:17
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    17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, And has not despised their prayer.

  • Ps 66:18-19
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    18If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened.

    19But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

  • Ps 1:5-6
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    5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the righteous; Their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

  • Job 36:6
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    6He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.

  • Ps 4:3
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    3But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

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    5Yahweh examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

  • Prov 11:31
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    31Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!

  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face; But as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27A dishonest man detests the righteous, And the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Ps 37:28
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    28For Yahweh loves justice, And doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, But the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Ps 37:39
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    39But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:

  • Ps 129:4
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    4Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Don't draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19The evil bow down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Ps 11:7
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    7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

  • Isa 59:2
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    2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.