Genesis 4:7
7 aIf you do well, will you not be accepted? ▼▼Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. cIts desire is contrary to ▼▼Or is toward
you, but you must rule over it.” Genesis 38:18-23
18He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, e“Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19Then she arose and went away, and taking off fher veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.20When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman’s hand, he did not find her. 21And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute ▼
▼Hebrew sacred woman; a woman who served a pagan deity by prostitution; also verse 22
who was at hEnaim at the roadside?” And they said, “No cult prostitute has been here.” 22So he returned to Judah and said, “I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.’” 23And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.” 1 Samuel 15:30
30Then he said, “I have sinned; yet ihonor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, jand return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.”Job 20:12-14
12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,though he hides it kunder his tongue,
13though he is loath to let it go
and holds it in his mouth,
14yet his food is turned in his stomach;
it is the venom of lcobras within him.
Proverbs 28:13
13Whoever mconceals his transgressions will not prosper,but he who nconfesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Isaiah 29:13
13 And the Lord said:“Because othis people pdraw near with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
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