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God answered him in the dream: "Yes, I know you did it in
good faith. In fact, it was I who kept you from sinning against
me; that is why I did not let you touch her. Therefore, return the
man's wife - as a spokesman he will intercede for you - that your
life may be saved. If you do not return her, you can be sure that
you and all who are yours will certainly die." Early the next
morning Abimelech called all his court officials and informed them
of everything that had happened, and the men were horrified. Then
Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him: "How could you do
this to us! What wrong did I do to you that you should have
brought such monstrous guilt on me and my kingdom? You have
treated me in an intolerable way. What were you afraid of,"
he asked him, "that you should have done such a thing?"
"I was afraid," answered Abraham, "because I
thought there would surely be no fear of God in this place, and so
they would kill me on account of my wife." [GEN 20:6-11]
From the moment that he put him in charge of his household and
all his possessions, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for
Joseph's sake; in fact, the LORD'S blessing was on everything he
owned, both inside the house and out. Having left everything he
owned in Joseph's charge, he gave no thought, with Joseph there,
to anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was strikingly
handsome in countenance and body. After a time, his master's wife
began to look fondly at him and said, "Lie with me." But
he refused. "As long as I am here," he told her,
"my master does not concern himself with anything in the
house, but has entrusted to me all he owns. He wields no more
authority in this house than I do, and he has withheld from me
nothing but yourself, since you are his wife. How, then, could I
commit so great a wrong and thus stand condemned before God?"
[GEN 39:5-9]
On the third day Joseph said to them: "Do this, and you
shall live; for I am a God-fearing man. If you have been honest,
only one of your brothers need be confined in this prison, while
the rest of you may go and take home provisions for your starving
families. But you must come back to me with your youngest brother.
Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die." To
this they agreed. To one another, however, they said: "Alas,
we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish
of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we paid no heed; that is
why this anguish has now come upon us." "Didn't I tell
you," broke in Reuben, "not to do wrong to the boy? But
you wouldn't listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
They did not know, of course, that Joseph understood what they
said, since he spoke with them through an interpreter. [GEN 42:18-23]
They had not gone far out of the city when Joseph said to his
head steward: "Go at once after the men! When you overtake
them, say to them, 'Why did you repay good with evil? Why did you
steal the silver goblet from me? It is the very one from which my
master drinks and which he uses for divination. What you have done
is wrong.'" [GEN 44:4-5]
When Joseph saw that his father had laid his right hand on
Ephraim's head, this seemed wrong to him; so he took hold of his
father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's,
saying, "That is not right, father; the other one is the
first-born; lay your right hand on his head!" But his father
resisted. "I know it, son," he said, "I know. That
one too shall become a tribe, and he too shall be great.
Nevertheless, his younger brother shall surpass him, and his
descendants shall become a multitude of nations." [GEN 48:17-19]
Now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became
fearful and thought, "Suppose Joseph has been nursing a
grudge against us and now plans to pay us back in full for all the
wrong we did him!" So they approached Joseph and said:
"Before your father died, he gave us these instructions: 'You
shall say to Joseph, Jacob begs you to forgive the criminal
wrongdoing of your brothers, who treated you so cruelly.' Please,
therefore, forgive the crime that we, the servants of your
father's God, committed." When they spoke these words to him,
Joseph broke into tears. Then his brothers proceeded to fling
themselves down before him and said, "Let us be your
slaves!" But Joseph replied to them: "Have no fear. Can
I take the place of God? Even though you meant harm to me, God
meant it for good, to achieve his present end, the survival of
many people. Therefore have no fear. I will provide for you and
for your children." By thus speaking kindly to them, he
reassured them. [GEN 50:15-21]
"You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them
and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath
will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own
wives will be widows, and your children orphans." [EX 22:21-23]
"You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join the
wicked in putting your hand, as an unjust witness, upon anyone.
Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for
doing wrong, nor shall you, when testifying in a lawsuit, side
with the many in perverting justice." [EX 23:1-2]
"They shall keep my charge and not do wrong in this
matter; else they will die for their profanation. I am the LORD
who have consecrated them." [LEV 22:9]
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: If a man (or
a woman) commits a fault against his fellow man and wrongs him,
thus breaking faith with the LORD, he shall confess the wrong he
has done, restore his ill-gotten goods in full, and in addition
give one fifth of their value to the one he has wronged." [NUM 5:5-7]
When Moses repeated these words to all the Israelites, the
people felt great remorse. Early the next morning they started up
into the foothills, saying, "Here we are, ready to go up to
the place that the LORD spoke of: for we were indeed doing
wrong." But Moses said, "Why are you again disobeying
the LORD'S orders? This cannot succeed. Do not go up, because the
LORD is not in your midst; if you go, you will be beaten down
before your enemies. For there the Amalekites and Canaanites face
you, and you will fall by the sword. You have turned back from
following the LORD; therefore the LORD will not be with you."
Yet they dared to go up into the foothills, even though neither
the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp. And
the Amalekites and Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came
down and defeated them, beating them back as far as Hormah. [NUM
14:39-45]
Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they
answered, "We will not go. Are you not satisfied with having
led us here away from a land flowing with milk and honey, to make
us perish in the desert, that you must now lord it over us? Far
from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving
us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you also gouge
out our eyes? No, we will not go." Then Moses became very
angry and said to the LORD, "Pay no heed to their offering. I
have never taken a single ass from them, nor have I wronged any
one of them." [NUM 16:12-15]
"Again, are you any better than Balak, son of Zippor, king of
Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel, or did he war against them
when Israel occupied Heshbon and its villages, Aroer and its
villages, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon? Three
hundred years have passed; why did you not recover them during
that time? I have not sinned against you, but you wrong me by
warring against me. Let the LORD, who is judge, decide this day
between the Israelites and the Ammonites!" But the king of
the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him. [JUDG
11:25-28]
You see for yourself today that the LORD just now delivered you
into my grasp in the cave. I had some thought of killing you, but
I took pity on you instead. I decided, 'I will not raise a hand
against my lord, for he is the LORD'S anointed and a father to
me.' Look here at this end of your mantle which I hold. Since I
cut off an end of your mantle and did not kill you, see and be
convinced that I plan no harm and no rebellion. I have done you no
wrong, though you are hunting me down to take my life. The LORD
will judge between me and you, and the LORD will exact justice
from you in my case. I shall not touch you. The old proverb says,
'From the wicked comes forth wickedness.' So I will take no action
against you. [1SAM 24:11-14]
Then Saul said: "I have done wrong. Come back, my son
David, I will not harm you again, because you have held my life
precious today. Indeed, I have been a fool and have made a serious
mistake." [1SAM 26:21]
So Achish summoned David and said to him: "As the LORD
lives, you are honest, and I should be pleased to have you active
with me in the camp, for I have found nothing wrong with you from
the day of your arrival to this day. But you are not welcome to
the lords. Withdraw peaceably, now, and do nothing that might
displease the Philistine lords." But David said to Achish:
"What have I done? Or what have you against your servant from
the first day I have been with you to this day, that I cannot go
to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" [1SAM 29:6-8]
"And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I
will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I
will make his kingdom firm. It is he who shall build a house for
my name. And I will make his royal throne firm forever. I will be
a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does
wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human
chastisements; but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I
withdrew it from your predecessor Saul, whom I removed from my
presence. Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before
me; your throne shall stand firm forever." [2SAM 7:12-16]
They crossed over the ford to bring the king's household over
and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei, son of Gera, crossed
the Jordan, he fell down before the king and said to him:
"May my lord not hold me guilty, and may he not remember and
take to heart the wrong that your servant did the day my lord the
king left Jerusalem. For your servant knows that he has done
wrong. Yet realize that I have been the first of the whole house
of Joseph to come down today to meet my lord the king." But
Abishai, son of Zeruiah, countered: "Shimei must be put to
death for this. He cursed the LORD'S anointed." David
replied: "What has come between you and me, sons of Zeruiah,
that you would create enmity for me this day? Should anyone die
today in Israel? Am I not aware that today I am king of
Israel?" Then the king said to Shimei, "You shall not
die." And the king gave him his oath. [2SAM 19:19-24]
When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said
to the LORD: "It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd,
who have done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done?
Punish me and my kindred." [2SAM 24:17]
"O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed
my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to
act. I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen,
a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted. Give your
servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people
and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern
this vast people of yours?" The LORD was pleased that Solomon
made this request. [1KGS 3:7-10]
"When they sin against you (for there is no man who does
not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to the
enemy, so that their captors deport them to a hostile land, far or
near, may they repent in the land of their captivity and be
converted. If then they entreat you in the land of their captors
and say, 'We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked'; if
with their whole heart and soul they turn back to you in the land
of the enemies who took them captive, pray to you toward the land
you gave their fathers, the city you have chosen, and the temple I
have built in your honor, listen from your heavenly dwelling.
Forgive your people their sins and all the offenses they have
committed against you, and grant them mercy before their captors,
so that these will be merciful to them." [1KGS 8:46-50]
When the Arameans came down to get him, Elisha prayed to the
LORD, "Strike this people blind, I pray you." And in
answer to the prophet's prayer the LORD struck them blind. Then
Elisha said to them: "This is the wrong road, and this is the
wrong city. Follow me! I will take you to the man you want."
And he led them to Samaria. When they entered Samaria, Elisha
prayed, "O LORD, open their eyes that they may see." The
LORD opened their eyes, and they saw that they were inside Samaria.
[2KGS 6:18-20]
Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent this message to the king of
Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Leave me, and I will
pay whatever tribute you impose on me." The king of Assyria
exacted three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold
from Hezekiah, king of Judah. Hezekiah paid him all the funds
there were in the temple of the LORD and in the palace treasuries.
He broke up the door panels and the uprights of the temple of the
LORD which he himself had ordered to be overlaid with gold, and
gave the gold to the king of Assyria. [2KGS 18:14-16]
David went out to meet them and addressed them in these words:
"If you come peacefully, to help me, I am of a mind to have
you join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies
though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our fathers see
and punish you." [1CHRON 12:18]
"Through all your days, my son, keep the Lord in mind, and
suppress every desire to sin or to break his commandments. Perform
good works all the days of your life, and do not tread the paths
of wrongdoing. For if you are steadfast in your service, your good
works will bring success, not only to you, but also to all those
who live uprightly." [TOBIT 4:5-6]
"As for Achior's speech in your council, we have heard of
it. When the men of Bethulia spared him, he told them all he had
said to you. So then, my lord and master, do not disregard his
word, but bear it in mind, for it is true. For our people are not
punished, nor does the sword prevail against them, except when
they sin against their God. But now their guilt has caught up with
them, by which they bring the wrath of their God upon them
whenever they do wrong; so that my lord will not be repulsed and
fail, but death will overtake them." [JDTH 11:9-11]
He summoned Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres,
Marsena and Memucan, the seven Persian and Median officials who
were in the king's personal service and held first rank in the
realm, and asked them, "What is to be done by law with Queen
Vashti for disobeying the order of King Ahasuerus issued through
the eunuchs?" In the presence of the king and of the
officials, Memucan answered: "Queen Vashti has not wronged
the king alone, but all the officials and the populace throughout
the provinces of King Ahasuerus. For the queen's conduct will
become known to all the women, and they will look with disdain
upon their husbands when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus
commanded that Queen Vashti be ushered into his presence, but she
would not come.' This very day the Persian and Median ladies who
hear of the queen's conduct will rebel against all the royal
officials, with corresponding disdain and rancor. If it please the
king, let an irrevocable royal decree be issued by him and
inscribed among the laws of the Persians and Medes, forbidding
Vashti to come into the presence of King Ahasuerus and authorizing
the king to give her royal dignity to one more worthy than she.
Thus, when the decree which the king will issue is published
throughout his realm, vast as it is, all wives will honor their
husbands, from the greatest to the least." This proposal
found acceptance with the king and the officials, and the king
acted on the advice of Memucan. [ESTH 1:14-21]
In those days there appeared in Israel men who were breakers of
the law, and they seduced many people, saying: "Let us go and
make an alliance with the Gentiles all around us; since we
separated from them, many evils have come upon us." The
proposal was agreeable; some from among the people promptly went
to the king, and he authorized them to introduce the way of living
of the Gentiles. Thereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem
according to the Gentile custom. They covered over the mark of
their circumcision and abandoned the holy covenant; they allied
themselves with the Gentiles and sold themselves to wrongdoing. [1MACC
1:11-15]
"Here is your brother Simeon who I know is a wise man;
listen to him always, and he will be a father to you. And Judas
Maccabeus, a warrior from his youth, shall be the leader of your
army and direct the war against the nations. You shall also gather
about you all who observe the law, and you shall avenge the wrongs
of your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and
observe the precepts of the law." Then he blessed them, and
he was united with his fathers. [1MACC 2:65-69]
The Hasideans were the first among the Israelites to seek peace
with them, for they said, "A priest of the line of Aaron has
come with the army, and he will not do us any wrong." [1MACC
7:13-14]
"Moreover, concerning the wrongs that King Demetrius has
done to them, we have written to him thus: 'Why have you made your
yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews? If they complain
about you again, we will do them justice and make war on you by
land and sea.'" [1MACC 8:31-32]
Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan written in peaceful terms,
to pay him honor; for he said: "Let us be the first to make
peace with him, before he makes peace with Alexander against us,
since he will remember all the wrongs we have done to him, his
brothers, and his nation." [1MACC 10:3-5]
When Alcimus saw their friendship for each other, he took the
treaty that had been made, went to Demetrius, and said that
Nicanor was plotting against the state, and that he had appointed
Judas, the conspirator against the kingdom, to be his successor.
Stirred up by the villain's calumnies, the king became enraged. He
wrote to Nicanor, stating that he was displeased with the treaty,
and ordering him to send Maccabeus as a prisoner to Antioch
without delay. When this message reached Nicanor he was dismayed,
for he hated to break his agreement with a man who had done no
wrong. [2MACC 14:26-28]
If it be a question of strength, he is mighty; and if of
judgment, who will call him to account? Though I were right, my
own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, he might put me
in the wrong. [JOB 9:19-20]
I loathe my life. I will give myself up to
complaint; I will speak from the bitterness of my soul. I
will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why
you oppose me. [JOB 10:1-2]
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my spokesman is
on high. My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes drop
tears, That he may do justice for a mortal in his presence and
decide between a man and his neighbor. For my years are numbered
now, and I am on a journey from which I shall not return. [JOB 16:19-22]
He shall sing before men and say, "I sinned and did wrong,
yet he has not punished me accordingly. He delivered my soul from
passing to the pit, and I behold the light of life." [JOB
33:27-28]
Therefore, men of understanding, hearken to me: far be it from
God to do wickedness; far from the Almighty to do wrong! Rather,
he requites men for their conduct, and brings home to a man his
way of life. [JOB 34:10-11]
Behold, God is sublime in his power. What teacher is there like
him? Who prescribes for him his conduct, or who can say, "You
have done wrong"? Remember, you should extol his work, which
men have praised in song. All men contemplate it; man beholds it
from afar. [JOB 36:22-25]
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with those who do wrong,
Who speak peace to their neighbors though evil is in their hearts.
Repay them for their deeds, for the evil that they do. For the
work of their hands repay them; give them what they deserve. They
pay no heed to the LORD'S works, to the deeds of God's hands. God
will tear them down, never to be rebuilt. [PS 28:3-5]
You love justice and hate wrongdoing; therefore God, your God,
has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellow kings.
[PS 45:8]
The just shall flourish like the palm tree, shall grow like a
cedar of Lebanon. Planted in the house of the LORD, they shall
flourish in the courts of our God. They shall bear fruit even in
old age, always vigorous and sturdy, As they proclaim: "The
LORD is just; our rock, in whom there is no wrong." [PS 92:13-16]
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are
guilty. Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders.
They did not remember your great love; they defied the Most High
at the Red Sea. Yet he saved them for his name's sake to make his
power known. [PS -8] Happy those whose way is blameless, who walk
by the teaching of the LORD. Happy those who observe God's
decrees, who seek the LORD with all their heart. They do no wrong;
they walk in God's ways. [PS 119:1-3]
Truly I love your commands more than the finest gold. Thus I
follow all your precepts; every wrong way I hate. [PS 119:127-128]
Kings have a horror of wrongdoing, for by righteousness the
throne endures. [PROV 16:12]
It is wrong to fine an innocent man, but beyond reason to
scourge princes. [PROV 17:26]
To show partiality is never good: for even a morsel of bread a
man may do wrong. [PROV 28:21]
Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her
mouth, and says, "I have done no wrong." [PROV 30:20]
For great are your judgments, and hardly to be described;
therefore the unruly souls were wrong. For when the lawless
thought to enslave the holy nation, shackled with darkness,
fettered by the long night, they lay confined beneath their own
roofs as exiles from the eternal providence. For they who supposed
their secret sins were hid under the dark veil of oblivion Were
scattered in fearful trembling, terrified by apparitions. For not
even their inner chambers kept them fearless, for crashing sounds
on all sides terrified them, and mute phantoms with somber looks
appeared. No force, even of fire, was able to give light, nor did
the flaming brilliance of the stars succeed in lighting up that
gloomy night. [WISDOM 17:1-5]
But your holy ones had very great light; And those others, who
heard their voices but did not see their forms, since now they
themselves had suffered, called them blest; And because they who
formerly had been wronged did not harm them, they thanked them,
and pleaded with them, for the sake of the difference between
them. Instead of this, you furnished the flaming pillar which was
a guide on the unknown way, and the mild sun for an honorable
migration. For those deserved to be deprived of light and
imprisoned by darkness, who had kept your sons confined through
whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the
world. [WISDOM 18:1-4]
No matter the wrong, do no violence to your neighbor, and do
not walk the path of arrogance. Odious to the LORD and to men is
arrogance, and the sin of oppression they both hate. Dominion is
transferred from one people to another because of the violence of
the arrogant. Why are dust and ashes proud? even during life man's
body decays [Taken from SIRACH 10:6-9]
Bear no burden too heavy for you; go with no one greater or
wealthier than yourself. How can the earthen pot go with the metal
cauldron? When they knock together, the pot will be smashed: The
rich man does wrong and boasts of it, the poor man is wronged and
begs forgiveness. [SIRACH 13:2-3]
A wise man is circumspect in all things; when sin is rife he
keeps himself from wrongdoing. [SIRACH 18:27]
So also with the woman who is unfaithful to her husband and
offers as heir her son by a stranger. First, she has disobeyed the
law of the Most High; secondly, she has wronged her husband;
Thirdly, in her wanton adultery she has borne children by another
man. [SIRACH 23:22-23]
When wine is present, do not pour out discourse, and flaunt not
your wisdom at the wrong time. [SIRACH 32:4]
Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my
eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim:
redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow. [ISA
1:16-17]
See, the Lord GOD is my help; who will prove me wrong? Lo, they
will all wear out like cloth, the moth will eat them up. [ISA
50:9]
Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have
thought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land
of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people, A grave was
assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers,
Though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood. (But the
LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity.) If he gives his life
as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long
life, and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.
Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of
days; Through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and
their guilt he shall bear. [ISA 53:8-11]
Thus says the LORD: Do what is right and just. Rescue the
victim from the hand of his oppressor. Do not wrong or oppress the
resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent
blood in this place. [JER 22:3]
Woe to him who builds his house on wrong, his terraces on
injustice; Who works his neighbor without pay, and gives him no
wages. [JER 22:13]
And so Jeremiah entered the vaulted dungeon, where he remained
a long time. Once King Zedekiah had him brought to his palace and
he asked him secretly whether there was any message from the LORD.
Yes! Jeremiah answered: you shall be handed over to the king of
Babylon. Jeremiah then asked King Zedekiah: In what have I wronged
you, or your ministers, or this people, that you should put me in
prison? And where are your own prophets now, who prophesied to you
that the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land? Hear
now, my lord king, and grant my petition: do not send me back into
the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I shall die there. [JER 37:16-20]
You see, O LORD, how I am wronged; do me justice! [LAM 3:59]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, I have
appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a
word from my mouth, you shall warn them for me. If I say to the
wicked man, You shall surely die; and you do not warn him or speak
out to dissuade him from his wicked conduct so that he may live:
that wicked man shall die for his sin, but I will hold you
responsible for his death. If, on the other hand, you have warned
the wicked man, yet he has not turned away from his evil nor from
his wicked conduct, then he shall die for his sin, but you shall
save your life. If a virtuous man turns away from virtue and does
wrong when I place a stumbling block before him, he shall die. He
shall die for his sin, and his virtuous deeds shall not be
remembered; but I will hold you responsible for his death if you
did not warn him. When, on the other hand, you have warned a
virtuous man not to sin, and he has in fact not sinned, he shall
surely live because of the warning, and you shall save your own
life. [EZEK 3:17-21]
As for you, son of man, tell your countrymen: The virtue which
a man has practiced will not save him on the day that he sins;
neither will the wickedness that a man has done bring about his
downfall on the day that he turns from his wickedness (nor can the
virtuous man, when he sins, remain alive). Though I say to the
virtuous man that he shall surely live, if he then presumes on his
virtue and does wrong, none of his virtuous deeds shall be
remembered; because of the wrong he has done, he shall die. And
though I say to the wicked man that he shall surely die, if he
turns away from his sin and does what is right and just, giving
back pledges, restoring stolen goods, living by the statutes that
bring life, and doing no wrong, he shall surely live, he shall not
die. None of the sins he committed shall be held against him; he
has done what is right and just, he shall surely live. Yet your
countrymen say, "The way of the LORD is not fair!"; but
it is their way that is not fair. When a virtuous man turns away
from what is right and does wrong, he shall die for it. But when a
wicked man turns away from wickedness and does what is right and
just, because of this he shall live. And still you say, "The
way of the LORD is not fair!"? I will judge every one of you
according to his ways, O house of Israel. [EZEK 33:12-20]
Darius decided to appoint over his entire kingdom one hundred
and twenty satraps, to safeguard his interests; these were
accountable to three supervisors, one of whom was Daniel. Daniel
outshone all the supervisors and satraps because an extraordinary
spirit was in him, and the king thought of giving him authority
over the entire kingdom. Therefore the supervisors and satraps
tried to find grounds for accusation against Daniel as regards the
administration. But they could accuse him of no wrongdoing;
because he was trustworthy, no fault of neglect or misconduct was
to be found in him. [DAN 6:2-5]
The LORD within her is just, who does no wrong; Morning after
morning he renders judgment unfailingly, at dawn. [ZEPH 3:5]
On that day You need not be ashamed of all your deeds, your
rebellious actions against me; For then will I remove from your
midst the proud braggarts, And you shall no longer exalt yourself
on my holy mountain. But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a
people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the
LORD; the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no
lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue;
They shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb
them. [ZEPH 3:11-13]
"Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he
repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day
and returns to you seven times saying, 'I am sorry,' you should
forgive him." [LK 17:3-4]
When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the
temple area and began to teach. The Jews were amazed and said,
"How does he know scripture without having studied?"
Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not my own but
is from the one who sent me. Whoever chooses to do his will shall
know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.
Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks
the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no
wrong in him." [JN 7:14-18]
The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about
his doctrine. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to
the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple
area where all the Jews gather, and in secret I have said nothing.
Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know
what I said." When he had said this, one of the temple guards
standing there struck Jesus and said, "Is this the way you
answer the high priest?" Jesus answered him, "If I have
spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken
rightly, why do you strike me?" Then Annas sent him bound to
Caiaphas the high priest. [JN 18:19-24]
Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so
he called out before the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a
Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; (I) am on trial for hope in the
resurrection of the dead." When he said this, a dispute broke
out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group became
divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or
angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three. A
great uproar occurred, and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee
party stood up and sharply argued, "We find nothing wrong
with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to
him?" The dispute was so serious that the commander, afraid
that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered his troops to
go down and rescue him from their midst and take him into the
compound. The following night the Lord stood by him and said,
"Take courage. For just as you have borne witness to my cause
in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome." [ACTS
23:6-11]
For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God.
Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to become a
stumbling block by eating [Taken from ROM 14:20]
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not
pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its
own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over
injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the
truth. [1COR 13:4-6]
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect
in the fear of God. Make room for us; we have not wronged anyone,
or ruined anyone, or taken advantage of anyone. I do not say this
in condemnation, for I have already said that you are in our
hearts, that we may die together and live together. I have great
confidence in you, I have great pride in you; I am filled with
encouragement, I am overflowing with joy all the more because of
all our affliction. [2COR 7:1-4]
For godly sorrow produces a salutary repentance without regret,
but worldly sorrow produces death. For behold what earnestness
this godly sorrow has produced for you, as well as readiness for a
defense, and indignation, and fear, and yearning, and zeal, and
punishment. In every way you have shown yourselves to be innocent
in the matter. So then even though I wrote to you, it was not on
account of the one who did the wrong, or on account of the one who
suffered the wrong, but in order that your concern for us might be
made plain to you in the sight of God. For this reason we are
encouraged. And besides our encouragement, we rejoice even more
because of the joy of Titus, since his spirit has been refreshed
by all of you. [2COR 7:10-13]
I have been foolish. You compelled me, for I ought to have been
commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to these "superapostles,"
even though I am nothing. The signs of an apostle were performed
among you with all endurance, signs and wonders, and mighty deeds.
In what way were you less privileged than the rest of the
churches, except that on my part I did not burden you? Forgive me
this wrong! Now I am ready to come to you this third time. And I
will not be a burden, for I want not what is yours, but you.
Children ought not to save for their parents, but parents for
their children. [2COR 12:11-14]
And when Kephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face
because he clearly was wrong. For, until some people came from
James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he
began to draw back and separated himself, because he was afraid of
the circumcised. And the rest of the Jews (also) acted
hypocritically along with him, with the result that even Barnabas
was carried away by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were
not on the right road in line with the truth of the gospel, I said
to Kephas in front of all, "If you, though a Jew, are living
like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles
to live like Jews?" [GAL 2:11-14] [Note: This action of
Paul's does not contradict papal infallibility. Peter's teachings
on faith and morals are infallible, but out of human weaknesses,
Peter was not observing his own teachings. Papal
infallibility covers only teachings on faith and morals in certain
circumstances - it does not mean that all the pope's personal
actions are infallible.]
I implore you, brothers, be as I am, because I have also become
as you are. You did me no wrong; you know that it was because of a
physical illness that I originally preached the gospel to you, and
you did not show disdain or contempt because of the trial caused
you by my physical condition, but rather you received me as an
angel of God, as Christ Jesus. [GAL 4:12-14]
Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for
others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due
payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ. For the
wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed, and
there is no partiality. [COL 3:23-25]
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord
(Jesus) will kill with the breath of his mouth and render
powerless by the manifestation of his coming, the one whose coming
springs from the power of Satan in every mighty deed and in signs
and wonders that lie, and in every wicked deceit for those who are
perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth so that
they may be saved. Therefore, God is sending them a deceiving
power so that they may believe the lie, that all who have not
believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing may be condemned.
But we ought to give thanks to God for you always, brothers loved
by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits for
salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in
truth. [2THES 2:8-13]
Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come
from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your
members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you
cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because
you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask
wrongly, to spend it on your passions. Adulterers! Do you not know
that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore,
whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of
God. Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning
when it says, "The spirit that he has made to dwell in us
tends toward jealousy"? But he bestows a greater grace;
therefore, it says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace
to the humble." So submit yourselves to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will
draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your
hearts, you of two minds. [JMS 4:1-8]
For whenever anyone bears the pain of unjust suffering because
of consciousness of God, that is a grace. But what credit is there
if you are patient when beaten for doing wrong? But if you are
patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace
before God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also
suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in
his footsteps. "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found
in his mouth." When he was insulted, he returned no insult;
when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself
over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his
body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for
righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you had
gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd
and guardian of your souls. [1PT 2:19-25]
But these [false teachers], like irrational animals...revile
things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they
will also be destroyed, suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing.
Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and
defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with
you. Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They
seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed.
Accursed children! Abandoning the straight road, they have gone
astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved
payment for wrongdoing, but he received a rebuke for his own
crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the
prophet's madness. These people are waterless springs and mists
driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been
reserved. For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious
desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who
live in error. They promise them freedom, though they themselves
are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever
overcomes him. For if they, having escaped the defilements of the
world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior Jesus Christ,
again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition
is worse than their first. For it would have been better for them
not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it
to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them. What
is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, "The
dog returns to its own vomit," and "A bathed sow returns
to wallowing in the mire." [Taken from 2PT 2:12-22]
Now this is the message that we have heard from him and
proclaim to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at
all. If we say, "We have fellowship with him," while we
continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth. But
if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus
cleanses us from all sin. If we say, "We are without
sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our
sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing. If we say, "We
have not sinned," we make him a liar, and his word is not in
us. [1JN 1:5-10]
If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly,
he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for
those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly
sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing
is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly. [1JN 5:16-17]
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