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

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.