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Proverbs 15:29
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Proverbs 15:29
29The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
29*The LORD is farre from the wicked: but hee heareth the prayer of the righteous.
- Psal. 34.16. and 145.18.
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Proverbs 15:29
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
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Open the full verse study18The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
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Open the full verse study12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
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Open the full verse study8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Open the full verse study15The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
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Open the full verse study16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
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Open the full verse study12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
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Open the full verse study26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
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Open the full verse study18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
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Open the full verse study6Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
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Open the full verse study8¶ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Open the full verse study46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Open the full verse study27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
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Open the full verse study1WHY standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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Open the full verse study41They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
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