Passages that pertain directly to God’s righteousness
Deut 9:4-6
Deut 16:18-20
Ps 37:1-40
Ps 51:1-19
Ps 72:1-19
Ps 85:1-13
Ps 97:1-12
Ps 98:1-9
Ps 103:6-18
Ps 112:1-10
Ps 118:15-24
Isa 32:1-20
Isa 45:18-46:13
Isa 51:1-8
Isa 53:1-12
Isa 54:11-17
Isa 58:1-59:21
Jer 23:5-6
Jer 33:15-16
Ezk 3:18-21
Ezek 18:5-32
Ezek 33:4-20
Zech 9:6-17
Mt 23:13-36
Rom 1:17-18
Rom 3:5-31
Rom 4:1-5:21
Gal 2:16-21
Gal 3:5-24
Jas 2:21-25
The relationship between God and righteousness
Righteousness is God’s nature
Ex 9:27 – Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
2 Chr 12:6 – Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."
Ezra 9:15 – O LORD the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
Neh 9:33 – Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.
Job 8:3 – Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Ps 7:9 – Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous–you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Ps 11:7 – For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.
Ps 45:4 – In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Ps 48:10 – As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Ps 50:6 – The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Ps 85:11 – Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Ps 116:5 – Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Ps 129:4 – The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
Ps 145:17 – The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
Isa 5:16 – But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Isa 11:5 – Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
Isa 26:7 – The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
Isa 41:26 – Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 42:21 – The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 50:7 – All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
Lam 1:18 – "The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.
Dan 9:7 – To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.
Dan 9:14 – Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Zech 9:9 – Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jn 5:30 – "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Acts 3:14 – But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 7:52 – Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
Acts 22:14 – And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 14:17 – For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
2 Thess 1:6 – since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
1 Jn 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 2:29 – If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 Jn 3:7 – Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
Righteousness is God’s command to men
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:36 – You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Num 30:2 – If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Num 31:2 – "Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
Num 31:3 – So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 16:20 – Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deut 24:13 – You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.
Deut 25:15 – A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Ps 4:5 – Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Prov 31:8 – Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 45:10 – "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Mt 5:20 – For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mt 7:12 – "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Mt 18:35 – So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."
Lk 6:31 – And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Rom 12:17 – Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Eph 6:1 – Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Eph 6:9 – Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
Col 3:25 – For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
Col 4:1 – Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
1 Thess 4:6 – that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
1 Thess 5:15 – See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
1 Tim 6:11 – But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
2 Tim 2:22 – So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
1 Pet 3:9 – Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Righteousness is God’s delight and expectation
Deut 33:19 – They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand."
Ps 4:5 – Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.
Ps 11:7 – For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.
Ps 14:5 – There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 45:4 – In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Ps 51:19 – then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 146:8 – the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.
Prov 21:3 – To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Isa 64:5 – You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Amos 5:24 – But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Mal 3:3 – He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.
The authority of righteousness belongs to God
Gen 49:16 – "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Job 36:3 – I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Ps 4:1 – Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Ps 48:10 – As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Isa 40:10 – Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isa 45:24 – "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
Isa 62:11 – Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."
Zech 3:7 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rev 22:11 – Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy."
Righteousness testifies to God’s glory
Ps 97:6 – The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.
Isa 46:13 – I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."
Isa 60:21 – Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
Isa 61:3 – to grant to those who mourn in Zion–to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Lk 23:47 – Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, "Certainly this man was innocent!"
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Phil 1:11 – filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Why God exercises righteousness
Men fail to act justly (See <topic id=”650” startswith=”Actions of unrighteousness” nth=”1”>Righteousness > Actions of unrighteousness</topic>)
Men shed blood
Gen 4:10 – And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
Gen 4:11 – And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Gen 9:6 – "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Num 35:33 – You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Deut 19:10 – lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
2 Sam 3:28 – Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
2 Sam 16:8 – The LORD has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood."
2 Sam 21:1 – Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."
1 Kgs 2:5 – "Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.
1 Kgs 2:32 – The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
1 Kgs 2:33 – So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore."
1 Kgs 21:19 – And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'"
2 Kgs 9:26 – 'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons–declares the LORD–I will repay you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."
2 Kgs 21:16 – Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Ps 5:6 – You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Ps 55:23 – But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Prov 6:17 – haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Isa 1:15 – When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 26:21 – For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Jer 19:6 – therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Jer 19:8 – And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
Jer 22:17 – But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."
Jer 22:18 – Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, my brother!' or 'Ah, sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, lord!' or 'Ah, his majesty!'
Lam 4:13 – This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
Ezek 16:36 – Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 22:2 – "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezek 22:3 – You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 22:9 – There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.
Ezek 22:12 – In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 22:13 – "Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.
Ezek 23:37 – For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 24:6 – "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.
Ezek 24:7 – For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.
Ezek 24:8 – To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.
Ezek 24:9 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Ezek 35:6 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Ezek 36:18 – So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
Joel 3:19 – "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel 3:21 – I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."
Mic 3:10 – who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Nah 3:1 – Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder–no end to the prey!
Hab 2:12 – "Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!
Mt 27:4 – saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."
Mt 27:25 – And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
Rev 16:6 – For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!"
Rev 18:24 – And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Men worship idols
Ex 20:5 – You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Lev 20:3 – I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.
Isa 65:6 – Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom
Jer 16:18 – But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
Jer 44:22 – The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Ezek 7:9 – And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.
Ezek 11:21 – But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 14:4 – Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
Ezek 21:29 – while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you–to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
Ezek 22:3 – You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 23:49 – And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
Ezek 23:35 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring."
Ezek 23:49 – And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
Ezek 44:13 – They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.
Men oppose God
Num 31:2 – "Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
Num 31:3 – So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.
Deut 7:10 – and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Judg 11:36 – And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."
Job 8:4 – If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
Ps 59:10 – My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
Isa 1:24 – Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
Isa 59:18 – According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Isa 66:6 – "The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!
Jer 46:10 – That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jer 51:6 – "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
Ezek 16:43 – Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Joel 3:4 – "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
Mic 7:10 – Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Nah 1:2 – The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
2 Thess 1:8 – in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Men break the covenant
Lev 26:14-25
Deu 9:24-25
2 Kgs 17:13-18
2 Chr 24:24
Jer 22:6-9
Ezek 16:59
Ezek 17:13-19
Hos 4:1-14
Mal 2:1-9
Mal 2:10-16
1 Tim 5:11-12
Men lie
Ps 5:6 – You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Jer 23:32 – Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.
Ezek 13:8 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 13:9 – My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:29 – while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you–to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Hos 10:13 – You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
Rev 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Rev 21:27 – But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Men are proud
Ps 31:23 – Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Prov 6:17 – haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Jer 50:29 – "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Hos 9:7 – The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
Acts 12:23 – Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
Rom 1:27 – and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Men oppose the people of God
Ezek 25:12 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them,
Mic 7:10 – Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
1 Thess 4:6 – that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
2 Thess 1:6 – since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
Men commit iniquity
Lev 18:25 – and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Rom 1:27 – and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Men refuse to acknowledge sin
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
How God exercises righteousness
Through judgment
See <topic id=”455” startswith=”The ways God judges” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the Old Testament > The ways God judges</topic>
See <topic id=”488” startswith=”Ways with which Jesus judges” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the New Testament > Ways with which Jesus judges</topic>
Establishes laws
See <topic id=”455” startswith=”Uses statutes and rules” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the Old Testament > The ways God judges > Uses statutes and rules</topic>
See <topic id=”488” startswith=”The law” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the New Testament > Who judges? > God > The law</topic>
See <topic id=”650” startswith=”God’s words/laws/statutes/judgments” nth=”1”>Righteousness > Who and what are righteous > God > God’s words/laws/statutes/judgments</topic>
Through searching
See <topic id=”558” startswith=”God searches” nth=”1”>God’s Omniscience > God searches</topic>
Through salvation
See <topic id=”452” startswith=”Out of God’s righteousness” nth=”1”>Salvation > God’s motivations of saving > Out of God’s righteousness</topic>
Establishes a kingdom
Judg 5:11 – To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel."Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isa 1:27 – Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 34:8 – For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 46:13 – I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."
Isa 60:17 – Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.
Isa 62:1 – For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 62:11 – Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."
Isa 63:4 – For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 23:6 – In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Jer 31:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: "'The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!'
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:16 – In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Jer 50:28 – "A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.
Jer 51:10 – The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jer 51:11 – "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.
Jer 51:24 – "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.
Joel 2:23 – "Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
Joel 3:21 – I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."
Zech 8:8 – and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness."
Zech 9:9 – Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Fulfills the gospel
Isa 61:3 – to grant to those who mourn in Zion–to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Jn 16:8 – And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Jn 16:10 – concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Leads men to do righteousness/become righteous (See <topic id=”674” startswith=”Reasons men are justified by God” nth=”1”>Justification > Reasons men are justified by God</topic>; <topic id=”674” startswith=”Results of justification by God” nth=”1”>Justification > Results of justification by God</topic>)
Ps 5:8 – Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.
Ps 23:3 – He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Ps 85:13 – Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.
Ps 118:19 – Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Isa 26:7 – The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
Isa 60:21 – Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Cor 6:7 – by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
Speaks with righteousness
Ps 119:172 – My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
Isa 45:19 – I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isa 45:23 – By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: 'To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.'
Isa 63:1 – Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save."
Characteristics of God’s righteousness
Duality of righteousness
Punishment
Ex 32:34 – But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."
Ex 34:7 – keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
Lev 26:25 – And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Deut 7:10 – and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Deut 32:35 – Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.'
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
2 Kgs 9:26 – 'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons–declares the LORD–I will repay you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."
Job 34:11 – For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Ps 1:5 – Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Ps 1:6 – for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Ps 75:10 – All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Ps 92:11 – My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Isa 1:26 – And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
Isa 10:22 – For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 11:5 – Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 35:4 – Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
Isa 40:10 – Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 47:3 – Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Isa 54:14 – In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 57:12 – I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Isa 59:18 – According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isa 65:6 – Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom
Isa 66:15 – "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Jer 14:16 – And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them–them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 46:10 – That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jer 51:6 – "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
Jer 51:24 – "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.
Jer 51:36 – Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,
Jer 51:56 – for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.
Ezek 7:4 – And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 7:9 – And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.
Ezek 9:10 – As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads."
Ezek 11:21 – But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 14:4 – Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
Ezek 16:43 – Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezek 18:20 – The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Ezek 23:49 – And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
Ezek 25:14 – And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 35:6 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Hos 4:9 – And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
Hos 9:7 – The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
Hos 12:2 – The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.
Joel 3:4 – "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
Joel 3:7 – Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Mic 7:10 – Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Mal 3:18 – Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Mt 13:49 – So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous
Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Lk 21:22 – for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."
Acts 24:25 – And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."
Rom 2:5 – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Rom 2:6 – He will render to each one according to his works:
Rom 2:7 – to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Rom 2:8 – but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Rom 12:19 – Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Cor 11:15 – So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2 Thess 1:6 – since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
2 Thess 1:9 – They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Heb 10:30 – For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
1 Pet 2:23 – When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Rev 22:12 – "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Grace
Love presupposes righteousness
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 36:10 – Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!
Ps 40:10 – I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.
Ps 62:12 – and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
Ps 71:15 – My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
Ps 85:10 – Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ps 103:10 – He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 112:4 – Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Ps 116:5 – Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.
Ps 145:17 – The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 43:25 – "I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Isa 45:8 – "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.
Isa 53:4 – Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 – But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 62:1 – For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Lam 4:22 – The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
Ezek 18:22 – None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Jon 3:10 – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Mt 9:13 – Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Righteousness includes the hope of salvation
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Ps 75:10 – All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Isa 1:27 – Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Isa 26:7 – The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 32:17 – And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 35:4 – Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
Isa 41:10 – fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 45:13 – I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward," says the LORD of hosts.
Isa 45:25 – In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."
Isa 46:13 – I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory."
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 54:14 – In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Isa 58:8 – Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Isa 59:16 – He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
Isa 60:17 – Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.
Isa 61:3 – to grant to those who mourn in Zion–to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 62:1 – For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 62:11 – Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."
Isa 63:1 – Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save."
Isa 63:4 – For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 23:6 – In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:16 – In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Mic 4:6 – In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;
Zech 8:8 – and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness."
Mal 4:2 – But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
Mt 9:13 – Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Mk 2:17 – And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Lk 5:32 – I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 10:5 – For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
2 Pet 3:13 – But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
1 Jn 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Righteousness includes the promise of rewards
Ps 5:12 – For you bless the righteous, O LORD; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Ps 72:7 – In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
Ps 92:12 – The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 112:3 – Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Ps 112:9 – He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.
Isa 3:10 – Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isa 40:10 – Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 60:21 – Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:18 – that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Mt 10:41 – The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.
Mt 13:43 – Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Mt 16:27 – For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Lk 14:14 – and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."
Rom 2:6 – He will render to each one according to his works:
Rom 2:7 – to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
2 Cor 11:15 – So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Rev 22:12 – "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Righteousness includes opportunities for mercy
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Deut 19:6 – lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Josh 20:3 – that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.
Josh 20:5 – And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.
Josh 20:9 – These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.
Fairness to all
All must face righteousness (See <topic id=”489” startswith=”Who is condemned?” nth=”1”>“Condemnation” in the New Testament > Who is condemned?</topic>; <topic id=”488” startswith=”Who are judged?” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the New Testament > Who are judged?</topic>)
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
Job 36:31 – For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 48:10 – As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Ps 50:4 – He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Ps 65:5 – By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;
Ps 76:8 – From the heavens you uttered judgment; the earth feared and was still,
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 97:6 – The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 3:13 – The LORD has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 59:18 – According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Mt 23:36 – Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Mt 25:32 – Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Lk 13:3 – No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Lk 13:5 – No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."
Lk 11:50 – so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
Lk 11:51 – from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
Acts 17:30 – The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Heb 9:27 – And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
2 Pet 3:10 – But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2 Pet 3:11 – Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
2 Pet 3:12 – waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
Rev 15:4 – Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."
Those who receive greater judgment
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Ezek 9:6 – Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.
Amos 3:2 – "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 12:48 – But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Jn 19:11 – Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin."
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Consistent principles (See <topic id=”488” startswith=”Principles of Jesus’ judgment” nth=”1”>“Judgment” in the New Testament > Principles of Jesus’ judgment</topic>)
According to one’s actions
Gen 18:21 – I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know."
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Judg 1:7 – And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Job 34:11 – For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Ps 62:12 – and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
Ps 99:8 – O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Prov 24:29 – Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done."
Isa 3:10 – Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isa 3:11 – Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
Isa 59:18 – According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Isa 65:6 – Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom
Jer 17:10 – "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 32:19 – great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Lam 3:64 – "You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:4 – And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:9 – And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 11:21 – But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 16:43 – Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezek 16:59 – "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
Ezek 18:20 – The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezek 22:31 – Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 24:14 – I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Ezek 35:15 – As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Hos 4:9 – And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
Hos 12:2 – The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.
Jon 3:10 – When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Mic 3:4 – Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
Rom 2:1 – Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Gal 6:7 – Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Eph 6:8 – knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
Col 3:25 – For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
2 Tim 4:14 – Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
Rev 18:6 – Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
Rev 20:12 – And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 20:13 – And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
Rev 22:12 – "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Does not show prejudice
Ex 23:2 – You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,
Ex 23:3 – nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 16:19 – You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
1 Sam 16:7 – But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."
2 Chr 19:7 – Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the LORD our God, or partiality or taking bribes."
Job 13:10 – He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
Job 34:19 – who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Mal 2:9 – and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction."
Mt 5:45 – so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Mt 22:16 – And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.
Mk 12:14 – And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"
Lk 20:21 – So they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
Jn 7:24 – Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Acts 10:34 – So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
Acts 24:15 – having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
Rom 2:11 – For God shows no partiality.
Gal 2:6 – And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)–those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
Eph 6:9 – Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
Col 3:25 – For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
Col 4:1 – Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
1 Tim 5:21 – In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
Jas 2:1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Jas 2:9 – But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Jas 3:17 – But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
1 Pet 1:17 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
Messages are proclaimed to all
1 Sam 3:11 – Then the LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
2 Kgs 21:12 – therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Isa 45:8 – "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.
Isa 45:19 – I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isa 48:16 – Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit.
Jer 19:3 – You shall say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
Mt 11:15 – He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mt 13:9 – He who has ears, let him hear."
Mt 13:43 – Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Mk 4:9 – And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mk 4:23 – If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mk 7:16 – See Footnote
Lk 8:8 – And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Lk 14:35 – It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Rev 2:7 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'
Rev 2:11 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Rev 2:29 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:6 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:13 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:22 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
Rev 13:9 – If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
Eternal existence
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Ps 55:22 – Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Ps 111:3 – Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.
Ps 112:3 – Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Ps 112:6 – For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
Ps 112:9 – He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.
Ps 119:142 – Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 32:17 – And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
Isa 45:21 – Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
Isa 51:6 – Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Isa 51:8 – For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Mt 25:46 – And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Thess 1:9 – They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Absolute authority
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Job 34:33 – Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Dan 9:14 – Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 3:5 – But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
God’s actions in exercising righteousness
Burns
Gen 19:24 – Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
Ex 9:23 – Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Lev 20:14 – If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.
Lev 21:9 – And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Num 11:1 – And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
Num 11:3 – So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.
Num 21:28 – For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.
Num 26:10 – and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.
Num 31:10 – All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
Deut 29:23 – the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath–
Num 31:10 – All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,
Deut 4:11 – And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
Deut 4:12 – Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
Deut 4:15 – "Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
Deut 4:24 – For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deut 4:36 – Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deut 5:23 – And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.
Deut 7:5 – But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
Deut 7:25 – The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Deut 9:15 – So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deut 9:21 – Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.
Deut 12:3 – You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
Deut 12:31 – You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deut 13:16 – You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
Deut 32:22 – For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Josh 6:24 – And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Josh 7:15 – And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'"
2 Sam 22:9 – Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
2 Sam 22:13 – Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.
2 Chr 34:5 – He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Ps 11:6 – Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Ps 18:8 – Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
Ps 21:9 – You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
Ps 46:9 – He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.
Ps 50:3 – Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
Ps 78:21 – Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
Ps 80:16 – They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
Ps 97:3 – Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.
Ps 105:32 – He gave them hail for rain, and fiery lightning bolts through their land.
Ps 106:18 – Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Isa 1:7 – Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
Isa 1:31 – And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.
Isa 4:3 – And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,
Isa 4:5 – Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.
Isa 9:19 – Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.
Isa 10:16 – Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
Isa 10:17 – The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
Isa 24:6 – Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
Isa 26:11 – O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
Isa 27:4 – I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
Isa 29:6 – you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Isa 30:27 – Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
Isa 30:30 – And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
Isa 30:33 – For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Isa 33:12 – And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."
Isa 33:14 – The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Isa 37:19 – and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
Isa 34:9 – And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.
Isa 42:25 – So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
Isa 47:14 – Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
Isa 64:11 – Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Isa 66:15 – "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Isa 66:24 – "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."
Jer 2:15 – The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
Jer 4:4 – Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds."
Jer 5:14 – Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.
Jer 7:20 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."
Jer 9:10 – "I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
Jer 9:12 – Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Jer 11:16 – The LORD once called you 'a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.
Jer 15:14 – I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
Jer 17:4 – You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
Jer 17:27 – But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'"
Jer 21:10 – For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 21:14 – I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."
Jer 22:7 – I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.
Jer 21:14 – I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."
Jer 32:29 – The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jer 34:2 – "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Jer 34:22 – Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."
Jer 43:12 – I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.
Jer 43:13 – He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.'"
Jer 44:6 – Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
Jer 46:19 – Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.
Jer 48:45 – "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.
Jer 49:2 – Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.
Jer 49:27 – And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad."
Jer 50:32 – The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him.
Jer 51:25 – "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.
Jer 51:58 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."
Lam 2:3 – He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
Lam 2:4 – He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.
Lam 4:11 – The LORD gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.
Ezek 5:2 – A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek 5:4 – And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
Ezek 15:6 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezek 15:7 – And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
Ezek 16:41 – And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
Ezek 19:12 – But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.
Ezek 19:14 – And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
Ezek 20:48 – All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."
Ezek 21:31 – And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
Ezek 22:20 – As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
Ezek 22:21 – I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
Ezek 22:31 – Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 23:25 – And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
Ezek 23:47 – And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
Ezek 28:18 – By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
Ezek 30:8 – Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.
Ezek 30:14 – I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.
Ezek 30:16 – And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 38:19 – For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Ezek 39:6 – I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Dan 7:9 – As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.
Dan 7:10 – A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.
Dan 7:11 – I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.
Dan 11:33 – And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.
Hos 8:14 – For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
Joel 2:30 – "And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Amos 1:4 – So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
Amos 1:7 – So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.
Amos 1:10 – So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds."
Amos 1:12 – So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."
Amos 1:14 – So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
Amos 2:2 – So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
Amos 2:5 – So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."
Amos 4:11 – "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Amos 5:6 – Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
Amos 7:4 – This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
Obad 1:18 – The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.
Mic 1:4 – And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
Mic 1:7 – All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
Nah 2:13 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
Nah 3:13 – Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
Nah 3:15 – There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!
Hab 2:13 – Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Zeph 1:18 – Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 3:2 – And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?"
Zech 9:4 – But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.
Zech 13:9 – And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
Mal 3:2 – But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
Mal 4:1 – "For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Mt 3:10 – Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Mt 3:11 – "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Mt 3:12 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Mt 5:22 – But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
Mt 7:19 – Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Mt 13:30 – Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Mt 13:40 – Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
Mt 13:42 – and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mt 13:50 – and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mt 18:8 – And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
Mt 18:9 – And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Mt 25:41 – "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Mk 9:43 – And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Mk 9:48 – 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'
Mk 9:49 – For everyone will be salted with fire.
Lk 3:9 – Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
Lk 3:16 – John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Lk 3:17 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Lk 17:29 – but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all–
Jn 15:6 – If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Acts 7:30 – "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
1 Cor 3:13 – each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
1 Cor 3:15 – If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Heb 6:8 – But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
Heb 10:27 – but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Heb 12:18 – For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest
Heb 12:29 – for our God is a consuming fire.
2 Pet 3:7 – But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
2 Pet 3:12 – waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:23 – save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
Rev 1:14 – The hairs of his head were white like wool, as white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Rev 1:15 – his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
Rev 2:18 – "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Rev 4:5 – From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,
Rev 8:7 – The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Rev 8:8 – The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
Rev 8:10 – The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Rev 9:17 – And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
Rev 9:18 – By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
Rev 10:1 – Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
Rev 14:10 – he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
Rev 17:16 – And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
Rev 18:8 – For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."
Rev 18:9 – And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
Rev 18:18 – and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?"
Rev 19:12 – His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.
Rev 19:20 – And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
Rev 20:9 – And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
Rev 20:10 – and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Rev 20:14 – Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Rev 20:15 – And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Rev 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Punishes
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Lev 26:18 – And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,
Lev 26:28 – then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.
Lev 26:41 – so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies–if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Deut 4:36 – Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deut 8:5 – Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
Deut 22:18 – Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,
Deut 28:20 – "The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
1 Chr 13:11 – And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
2 Chr 24:24 – Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.
Ezra 9:13 – And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Job 13:26 – For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 31:11 – For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
Job 31:28 – this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 6:1 – O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.
Ps 38:1 – O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
Ps 39:11 – When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 89:32 – then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
Ps 92:11 – My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
Ps 94:12 – Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 118:18 – The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Ps 119:126 – It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken.
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Prov 1:23 – If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
Prov 1:25 – because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,
Prov 1:30 – would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,
Prov 3:11 – My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
Isa 8:11 – For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
Isa 13:11 – I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
Isa 24:21 – On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
Isa 26:14 – They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
Isa 26:16 – O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
Isa 26:21 – For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.
Isa 27:1 – In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isa 28:26 – For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isa 30:30 – And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
Isa 40:2 – Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Isa 66:15 – "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Jer 2:19 – Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.
Jer 6:8 – Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."
Jer 9:25 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh–
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Jer 11:22 – therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
Jer 18:11 – Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the LORD, behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.'
Jer 21:14 – I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."
Jer 23:34 – And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, 'The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:29 – For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.'
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 29:32 – therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the LORD, for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.'"
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 30:20 – Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.
Jer 31:18 – I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.
Jer 36:31 – And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.'"
Jer 44:13 – I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,
Jer 44:29 – This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:
Jer 46:25 – The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Jer 50:18 – Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Jer 51:47 – "Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jer 51:52 – "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:4 – And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:9 – And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 22:14 – Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezek 23:48 – Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Ezek 25:17 – I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them."
Ezek 30:3 – For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Hos 4:9 – And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
Hos 5:9 – Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.
Hos 7:12 – As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
Hos 7:15 – Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hos 9:7 – The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
Hos 9:16 – Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.
Hos 10:10 – When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.
Hos 12:2 – The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.
Amos 1:3 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
Amos 1:6 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.
Amos 1:9 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
Amos 1:11 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Amos 1:13 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
Amos 2:1 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
Amos 2:4 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
Amos 2:6 – Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals–
Amos 7:4 – This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 4:6 – In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;
Mic 6:9 – The voice of the LORD cries to the city–and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Zeph 1:8 – And on the day of the LORD's sacrifice–"I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
Zeph 1:9 – On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.
Zeph 1:12 – At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
Zeph 3:19 – Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Zech 10:3 – "My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Mt 23:14 – See Footnote
Mt 23:33 – You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Mk 12:40 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Lk 20:47 – who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
Acts 7:7 – 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.'
Acts 12:23 – Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
Rom 13:2 – Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Rom 13:4 – for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
1 Cor 11:32 – But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
2 Pet 2:9 – then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Rev 17:1 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Rev 22:12 – "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Cuts off
Gen 9:11 – I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
Gen 17:14 – Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
Gen 41:36 – That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."
Ex 12:15 – Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Ex 12:19 – For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
Ex 30:33 – Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.'"
Ex 30:38 – Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people."
Ex 31:14 – You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Lev 7:20 – but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:21 – And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people."
Lev 7:25 – For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 7:27 – Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people."
Lev 17:4 – and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.
Lev 17:9 – and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 17:10 – "If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
Lev 17:14 – For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
Lev 18:29 – For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 19:8 – and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 20:3 – I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.
Lev 20:5 – then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.
Lev 20:6 – "If a person turns to mediums and wizards, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Lev 20:17 – "If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.
Lev 20:18 – If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lev 22:3 – Say to them, 'If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Lev 23:29 – For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 26:22 – And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
Lev 26:30 – And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
Num 9:13 – But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
Num 15:30 – But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Num 15:31 – Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."
Num 19:13 – Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
Num 19:20 – "If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
1 Sam 2:33 – The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.
1 Kgs 9:7 – then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
1 Kgs 14:10 – therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
1 Kgs 14:14 – Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,
1 Kgs 21:21 – Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
2 Kgs 9:8 – For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
2 Chr 22:7 – But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Ps 12:3 – May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,
Ps 34:16 – The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Ps 37:9 – For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
Ps 37:22 – for those blessed by the LORD shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 37:34 – Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.
Ps 37:38 – But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 54:5 – He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.
Ps 73:27 – For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Ps 88:16 – Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
Ps 94:23 – He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.
Ps 109:15 – Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
Ps 143:12 – And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.
Prov 2:22 – but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Isa 11:13 – The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Isa 14:22 – "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," says the LORD.
Isa 18:5 – For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
Isa 22:25 – In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."
Isa 29:20 – For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
Isa 48:9 – "For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
Isa 48:19 – your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
Isa 55:13 – Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Isa 56:5 – I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Jer 44:7 – And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 44:11 – "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.
Jer 46:23 – They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.
Jer 47:4 – because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
Jer 50:16 – Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
Jer 51:62 – and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'
Ezek 14:8 – And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 14:13 – "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
Ezek 14:17 – "Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast,
Ezek 14:19 – "Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Ezek 14:21 – "For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Ezek 21:3 – and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.
Ezek 21:4 – Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 25:13 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
Ezek 25:16 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.
Ezek 29:8 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,
Ezek 30:15 – And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.
Ezek 31:12 – Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Ezek 35:7 – I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.
Dan 9:26 – And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
Hos 8:4 – They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
Joel 1:5 – Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
Joel 1:9 – The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.
Joel 1:16 – Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Amos 1:5 – I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir," says the LORD.
Amos 1:8 – I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord GOD.
Amos 2:3 – I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.
Obad 1:9 – And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
Obad 1:10 – Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
Mic 5:9 – Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
Mic 5:10 – And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;
Mic 5:11 – and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
Mic 5:12 – and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
Mic 5:13 – and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;
Nah 1:14 – The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
Nah 1:15 – Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
Nah 2:13 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
Nah 3:15 – There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!
Zeph 1:3 – "I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.
Zeph 1:4 – "I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,
Zeph 1:11 – Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.
Zeph 3:6 – "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Zeph 3:7 – I said, 'Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
Zech 9:6 – a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zech 11:10 – And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
Zech 13:2 – "And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
Zech 13:8 – In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Mal 2:12 – May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob, any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!
Jn 15:2 – Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Requires
Gen 9:5 – And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
Ex 20:5 – You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Ex 32:34 – But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."
Ex 34:7 – keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
Lev 18:25 – and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Num 14:18 – 'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'
Deut 5:9 – You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deut 18:19 – And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
Deut 23:21 – "If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Ps 9:12 – For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Ps 55:19 – God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.
Isa 10:3 – What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
Isa 24:22 – They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.
Isa 29:6 – you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 6:15 – Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
Jer 8:12 – Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 11:23 – and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment."
Jer 14:10 – Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
Jer 23:2 – Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.
Jer 23:12 – Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
Jer 46:21 – Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.
Jer 48:44 – He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
Jer 49:8 – Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.
Jer 50:27 – Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
Jer 50:31 – "Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
Jer 51:18 – They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Lam 4:22 – The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
Ezek 3:18 – If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezek 3:20 – Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezek 33:6 – But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.
Ezek 33:8 – If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezek 34:10 – Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
Hos 1:4 – And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hos 2:13 – And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD.
Hos 8:13 – As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
Hos 9:7 – The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
Hos 9:9 – They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Amos 3:2 – "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos 3:14 – "that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Mic 7:4 – The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Measures
2 Kgs 21:13 – And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
Ps 60:6 – God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
Ps 108:7 – God has promised in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 40:12 – Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Ezek 40:5 – And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezek 40:6 – Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.
Ezek 40:8 – Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.
Ezek 40:9 – Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.
Ezek 40:11 – Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.
Ezek 40:13 – Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other.
Ezek 40:19 – Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.
Ezek 40:20 – As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.
Ezek 40:23 – And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.
Ezek 40:24 – And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.
Ezek 40:27 – And there was a gate on the south of the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
Ezek 40:28 – Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others.
Ezek 40:32 – Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others.
Ezek 40:35 – Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it. It had the same size as the others.
Ezek 40:47 – And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.
Ezek 40:48 – Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side.
Ezek 41:1 – Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.
Ezek 41:2 – And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.
Ezek 41:3 – Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.
Ezek 41:4 – And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."
Ezek 41:5 – Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
Ezek 41:13 – Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;
Ezek 41:15 – Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,
Ezek 42:15 – Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around.
Ezek 42:16 – He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.
Ezek 42:17 – He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.
Ezek 42:18 – He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.
Ezek 42:19 – Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.
Ezek 42:20 – He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.
Ezek 43:10 – "As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.
Ezek 45:3 – And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Ezek 47:3 – Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep.
Ezek 47:4 – Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep.
Ezek 47:5 – Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Zech 2:2 – Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length."
Mt 7:2 – For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Mk 4:24 – And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.
Lk 6:38 – give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you."
2 Cor 10:12 – Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
Rev 11:1 – Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,
Rev 11:2 – but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Rev 21:15 – And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.
Rev 21:16 – The city lies foursquare; its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.
Rev 21:17 – He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement.
Avenges
Lev 26:25 – And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Num 31:2 – "Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
Num 31:3 – So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Judg 11:36 – And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
2 Sam 22:27 – with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Est 8:13 – A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.
Ps 54:5 – He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 1:24 – Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
Isa 34:8 – For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isa 35:4 – Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
Isa 47:3 – Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.
Isa 59:17 – He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
Isa 59:18 – According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Isa 61:2 – to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
Isa 63:4 – For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
Isa 66:6 – "The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 15:15 – O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
Jer 20:12 – O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 46:10 – That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jer 50:15 – Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.
Jer 50:15 – Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.
Jer 50:28 – "A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.
Jer 50:29 – "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Jer 51:6 – "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
Jer 51:11 – "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.
Jer 51:24 – "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.
Jer 51:36 – Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,
Ezek 25:14 – And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 25:17 – I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them."
Joel 3:4 – "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
Joel 3:21 – I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion."
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Nah 1:2 – The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
Rewards
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
2 Sam 22:21 – "The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
2 Sam 22:25 – And the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
2 Sam 22:26 – "With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
2 Sam 22:27 – with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
Job 34:11 – For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Job 36:31 – For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
Ps 5:12 – For you bless the righteous, O LORD; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Ps 18:20 – The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
Ps 18:24 – So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
Ps 18:25 – With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
Ps 18:26 – with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Ps 24:5 – He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Ps 25:10 – All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Ps 59:10 – My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
Ps 62:12 – and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Ps 73:1 – Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Ps 99:8 – O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Ps 103:17 – But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Prov 3:33 – The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
Prov 19:17 – Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 61:3 – to grant to those who mourn in Zion–to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Jer 17:10 – "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Joel 2:23 – "Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
Mt 6:1 – "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Mt 6:4 – so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:6 – But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:18 – that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Mt 6:33 – But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Mt 10:41 – The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward.
Lk 14:14 – and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 9:10 – He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Tim 4:8 – Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
Overturns
Gen 19:29 – So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Deut 29:23 – the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath–
Job 34:25 – Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Ps 147:6 – The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.
Isa 3:8 – For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
Isa 1:7 – Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
Isa 13:19 – And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isa 21:9 – And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground."
Isa 24:20 – The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
Isa 25:12 – And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
Isa 30:13 – therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Jer 20:16 – Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,
Jer 49:18 – As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.
Jer 50:15 – Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.
Jer 50:40 – As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
Jer 51:8 – Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Jer 51:58 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."
Lam 2:2 – The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
Lam 2:17 – The LORD has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
Lam 4:6 – For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.
Ezek 13:14 – And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 26:15 – "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?
Ezek 26:18 – Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.'
Ezek 30:6 – "Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 38:20 – The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.
Hos 4:14 – I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
Amos 4:11 – "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD.
Hag 2:22 – and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Zech 11:2 – Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!
2 Pet 2:6 – if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Rev 14:8 – Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
Rev 17:10 – they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
Rev 18:2 – And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Rev 18:3 – For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."
Forsakes
Deut 31:17 – Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chr 15:2 – and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chr 24:20 – Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.'"
2 Chr 30:7 – Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.
Neh 9:28 – But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.
Ps 53:5 – There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
Ps 78:60 – He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Isa 2:6 – For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Isa 54:7 – For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
Jer 2:37 – From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.
Jer 31:37 – Thus says the LORD: "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD."
Jer 5:19 – And when your people say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'"
Jer 7:29 – "'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
Lam 2:7 – The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.
Hos 8:5 – I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Mt 13:48 – When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.
1 Cor 9:27 – But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Tit 3:10 – As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
Heb 6:8 – But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
Winnows
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
1 Kgs 14:15 – the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Ps 139:3 – You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Isa 41:16 – you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Jer 15:7 – I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Jer 49:32 – Their camels shall become plunder, their herds of livestock a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, declares the LORD.
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Jer 51:2 – and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.
Ezek 5:2 – A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek 5:10 – Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
Ezek 5:12 – A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek 6:5 – And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 12:14 – And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Zech 1:19 – And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Mt 3:12 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Lk 3:17 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Harvests
Isa 18:4 – For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
Isa 18:5 – For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
Jer 51:33 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."
Hos 2:9 – Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
Hos 6:11 – For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of my people.
Hos 8:7 – For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.
Hos 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hos 10:13 – You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,
Mt 3:12 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Mt 13:30 – Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Mt 13:39 – and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Mt 21:34 – When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.
Mk 4:29 – But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
Lk 3:17 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Jn 4:35 – Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.
Gal 6:7 – Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Gal 6:9 – And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Rev 14:15 – And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."
Rev 14:16 – So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Rev 14:18 – And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe."
Rev 14:19 – So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Ensnares
Ps 11:6 – Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Isa 8:14 – And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa 8:15 – And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."
Isa 24:17 – Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
Isa 24:18 – He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Jer 48:43 – Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD.
Jer 48:44 – He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
Jer 50:24 – I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.
Ezek 12:13 – And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 32:3 – Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
Hos 7:12 – As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
Counts
Rom 2:26 – So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:4 – Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:6 – just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Rom 4:8 – blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin."
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:10 – How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:23 – But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
2 Cor 3:5 – Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Cor 5:19 – that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
Numbers
Job 14:16 – For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
Job 31:4 – Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?
Ps 147:4 – He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Isa 65:12 – I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in."
Ezek 4:4 – "Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
Ezek 4:5 – For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.
Dan 5:26 – This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
Rev 6:11 – Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Rev 7:4 – And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
Rev 7:9 – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 9:16 – The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
Rev 13:18 – This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Settles accounts
Mt 18:23-35
Mt 20:1-16
Mt 21:33-41
Mt 24:45-51
Mt 25:14-30
Mk 11:34-36
Lk 12:42-48
Lk 16:1-9
Phil 4:15-17
Heb 13:17
1 Pet 4:4-5
Removes
Rev 2:5 – Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Takes away
Rev 22:19 – and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
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