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Reuben Archer Torrey
• 1 min. read • grade level: 13
Springs from an evil heart.
Matt. 15:19, 20
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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. (Matthew 15:19‑20)
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Gal. 5:19
19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (Galatians 5:19)
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Forbidden.
1 Cor. 14:20
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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. (1 Corinthians 14:20)
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Col. 3:8
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (Colossians 3:8)
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Eph. 4:26, 27
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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
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Neither give place to the devil. (Ephesians 4:26‑27)
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A hindrance to growth in grace.
1 Peter 2:1, 2
1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:1‑2)
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Incompatible with the worship of God.
1 Cor. 5:7, 8
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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:7‑8)
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Christian liberty not to be made a cloak for.
1 Peter 2:16
16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. (1 Peter 2:16)
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Saints avoid.
Job 31:29, 30
29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. (Job 31:29‑30)
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Psa. 35:12-14
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They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. (Psalm 35:12‑14)
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THE WICKED
Speak with.
3 John 10
10
Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. (3 John 10)
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Live in.
Titus 3:3
3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
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Conceive.
Psa. 7:14
14
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. (Psalm 7:14)
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Filled with.
Rom. 1:29
29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (Romans 1:29)
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Visited saints with.
Psa. 83:3
3
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. (Psalm 83:3)
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Matt. 22:6
6
And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. (Matthew 22:6)
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Pray for those who injure you through.
Matt. 5:44
44
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (Matthew 5:44)
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Brings its own punishment.
Psa. 7:15, 16
15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
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His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. (Psalm 7:15‑16)
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God requites.
Psa. 10:14
14
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. (Psalm 10:14)
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Ezek. 36:5
5
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. (Ezekiel 36:5)
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Punishment of.
Amos 1:11,12
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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
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But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:11‑12)
. Oba. 10-15.
Exemplified.
Cain,
Gen. 4:5
5
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Genesis 4:5)
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Esau,
Gen. 27:41
41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. (Genesis 27:41)
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Joseph's brethren,
Gen. 37:19, 20
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And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. (Genesis 37:19‑20)
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Saul,
1 Sam. 18:9-11
9
And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
10
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
11
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. (1 Samuel 18:9‑11)
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Shimei,
2 Sam. 16:5
5
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. (2 Samuel 16:5)
. 1 Kin. 2:8, 9.
Joab,
2 Sam. 3:27
27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. (2 Samuel 3:27)
. 1 Kin. 2:5, 28-33.
Sanballat, dc.
Neh. 2:10
10
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. (Nehemiah 2:10)
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Haman,
Esther 3:5, 6
5
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
6
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. (Esther 3:5‑6)
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Edo-mites,
Ezek. 35:6
6
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. (Ezekiel 35:6)
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Presidents, cfc.
Dan. 6:4-9
4
Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
5
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
6
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
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All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
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Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. (Daniel 6:4‑9)
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Herodias,
Mar. 6:19.
Scribes, de.
Mar. 11:18.
Luke 11:54
54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. (Luke 11:54)
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Diotrephes,
3 John 10
10
Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. (3 John 10)
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