Exodus 23:2
2You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,1 Samuel 15:9
9 aBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. 1 Samuel 15:15
15Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, cfor the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”Job 31:34
34because I stood in great fear of dthe multitude,and the contempt of families terrified me,
so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—
Proverbs 29:25
25 eThe fear of man lays a snare,but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Isaiah 51:12-13
12 “I, I am he fwho comforts you;who are you that you are afraid of gman who dies,
of the son of man who is made hlike grass,
13and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
iwho stretched out the heavens
and jlaid the foundations of the earth,
and you fear continually all the day
because of the wrath of kthe oppressor,
when he sets himself to destroy?
And where is the wrath of lthe oppressor?
Luke 23:20-25
20Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, 21but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” 22A third time he said to them, “Why, mWhat evil has he done? nI have found in him no guilt deserving death. oI will therefore punish and release him.” 23But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. 24So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 25He released the man who had been thrown into prison pfor insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, qbut he delivered Jesus over to their will.
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