Proverbs 29:8

All About Life

⁷ The righteous person knows the rights of the poor,
but the wicked one does not understand these concerns. ⁸ Mockers inflame a city,
but the wise turn away anger. ⁹ If a wise man goes to court with a fool,
there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.

Wise Men

Proverbs 11:11

A city is built up by the blessing of the upright,
but it is torn down by the mouth of the wicked.

Exodus 32:10-14

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Numbers 16:48

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was halted.

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

2 Samuel 24:16-17

Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, but the Lord relented concerning the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Proverbs 16:14

A king’s fury is a messenger of death,
but a wise man appeases it.

Isaiah 28:14-22

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you mockers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My compassions would not reach out to these people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

Ezekiel 22:30

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

Amos 7:2-6

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

Matthew 27:39-43

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

John 9:40-41

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

John 11:47-50

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

James 3:5-6

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

James 5:15-18

The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.