Protests

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. — read the full passage →

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. — read the full passage →

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. — read the full passage →

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. — read the full passage →

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. — read the full passage →

He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. — read the full passage →

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? — read the full passage →

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. — read the full passage →

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! — read the full passage →

Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. — read the full passage →

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it. — read the full passage →

And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. — read the full passage →

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. — read the full passage →

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; — read the full passage →

And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. — read the full passage →

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. — read the full passage →

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. — read the full passage →

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. — read the full passage →

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. — read the full passage →

At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. — read the full passage →

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, — read the full passage →

For our God is a consuming fire. — read the full passage →

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. — read the full passage →

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. — read the full passage →

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. — read the full passage →

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. — read the full passage →

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. — read the full passage →

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. — read the full passage →

And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. — read the full passage →

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. — read the full passage →

They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. — read the full passage →

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. — read the full passage →

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. — read the full passage →

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. — read the full passage →

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. — read the full passage →

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. — read the full passage →

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. — read the full passage →

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. — read the full passage →

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? — read the full passage →

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. — read the full passage →

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: — read the full passage →

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. — read the full passage →

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. — read the full passage →

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. — read the full passage →

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. — read the full passage →

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. — read the full passage →

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. — read the full passage →

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. — read the full passage →

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: — read the full passage →

Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. — read the full passage →

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. — read the full passage →

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. — read the full passage →

Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, — read the full passage →

And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. — read the full passage →

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. — read the full passage →

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. — read the full passage →

And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. — read the full passage →

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. — read the full passage →

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. — read the full passage →

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. — read the full passage →

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. — read the full passage →

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. — read the full passage →

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. — read the full passage →

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. — read the full passage →

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. — read the full passage →

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: — read the full passage →

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. — read the full passage →

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. — read the full passage →

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? — read the full passage →

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. — read the full passage →

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. — read the full passage →