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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 29:8
Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

Genesis 41:38-42
So Pharaoh asked them, "Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?" . . .

Genesis 45:8
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me Pharaoh's adviser--lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22
In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer, . . .

Job 22:30
He will deliver even the guilty one, who will be rescued through the purity of your hands."

Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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2 Samuel 20:1
Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram's horn and shouted: "We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse's son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!"

Esther 3:8-15
Then Haman informed King Xerxes, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else's, and they do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them. . . .

Esther 9:1-16
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king's command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but the tables were turned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them. . . .

James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.