instruments
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
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Isaiah 5:23
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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Jeremiah 5:26-28
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Micah 2:11
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
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Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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Matthew 26:14-16
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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
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And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
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And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
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Matthew 26:59-16
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Matthew 26:60-16
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deviseth
Psalm 10:7-10
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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Psalm 64:4-6
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That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
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They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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Psalm 82:2-5
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How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
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Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Micah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
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Matthew 26:4
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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lying
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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1 Kings 21:10-14
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And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
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And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
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They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
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And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
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Acts 6:11-13
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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
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And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
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And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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