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Psalms 11:2
For look, the wicked string bows; they put their arrows on bowstrings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
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Proverbs 29:27
An unjust person is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
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Matthew 23:30-34
and you say,‘ If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!“ Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
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Psalms 64:2-6
Hide me from the scheming of wicked people, from the mob of evildoers,who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,shooting from concealed places at the blameless. They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.They adopt an evil plan; they talk about hiding traps and say,“ Who will see them?”They devise crimes and say,“ We have perfected a secret plan.” The inner man and the heart are mysterious.
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Psalms 35:10
All my bones will say,“ LORD, who is like you, rescuing the poor from one too strong for him, the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”
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Acts 12:11
When Peter came to himself, he said,“ Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”
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Acts 12:2-3
and he executed James, John’s brother, with the sword.When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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1 Samuel 24 17
and said to David,“ You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.
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Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
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1 Samuel 24 11
Look, my father! Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Recognize that I’ve committed no crime or rebellion. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
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1 John 3 12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
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Proverbs 29:10
Bloodthirsty men hate an honest person, but the upright care about him.
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Acts 12:23
At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one who is wicked swallows up one who is more righteous than himself?