37 Bible Verses about rehabilitation

Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God.

For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;

And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.

And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.