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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Nehemiah 5:7 OT

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Matthew 21:13 NT

  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

• Luke 3:19 NT

  but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

• John 2:16 NT

  To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

• Psalms 19:7-11 OT

  Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple. Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring…

• 2 Timothy 3:16 NT

  Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

• Psalms 39:11 OT

  When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

• Proverbs 1:30 OT

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Hebrews 12:5 NT

  You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

• Psalms 6:1 OT

  Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

• 1 Samuel 12:20-25 OT

  Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart. Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for…

• Proverbs 27:5 OT

  Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

• Ecclesiastes 7:5 OT

  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

• Psalms 141:5 OT

  Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

• Proverbs 17:10 OT

  A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

• Proverbs 27:6 OT

  The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

• Proverbs 15:32 OT

  He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

• Proverbs 19:25 OT

  Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

• Proverbs 15:31 OT

  The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

• Proverbs 29:15 OT

  The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

• Proverbs 13:18 OT

  Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

• Proverbs 6:23 OT

  For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

• Proverbs 28:23 OT

  One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

• Leviticus 19:17 OT

  “ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.