Proverbs 24:25 Cross References - NSB

²⁵ Those who rebuke the wicked are filled with delight. A good blessing will come upon them.

¹⁷ »‘Never hate your brother in your heart. Be sure to correct your neighbor so that you will not be guilty of sinning along with him.

¹³ »I told him I would hand down a long lasting judgment against his household because he knew about his sons’ sin. They were cursing God but he did not restrain them.

¹⁹ »Say to him: ‘Jehovah says: »Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?«’« »Then say: ‘Jehovah says: »Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.«’« ²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah: »Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy?« Elijah said: »I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.«

⁷ After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: »Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers.« I organized a big meeting of protest. ⁸ I said to them: »We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free. They were servants and prisoners of the nations. Would you now give up your brothers for a price? Are they to become our property?« They said nothing. They answered not a word! ⁹ I said: »What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us?

⁸ It was evil in my eyes so I had all Tobiah's things removed from the room. ⁹ Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean. I put the vessels of the House of God, along with the meal offerings and the perfume, back in the rooms. ¹⁰ I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support. So the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field. ¹¹ Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said: »Why has the house of God been given up?« I got them together and put them in their places.

¹⁷ Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them: »What is this evil you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?

²⁵ I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair. I made them take an oath by God, saying: »You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

²⁸ One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I sent him away from me.

¹⁶ »I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger. ¹⁷ »I broke the fangs of the unrighteous. I made them drop their prey from their teeth. ¹⁸ »Then I thought: I shall die in my nest (house), and I shall multiply my days like the grains of sand.

²³ He who reproves a man later find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

⁴ For John had said to him: »It is not lawful for you to have her.«

²⁰ Reprove the sinner in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

² preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

¹³ This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁵ Speak and exhort and reprove these things with all authority. Let no man despise you.