But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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Exodus 18 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Exodus 23 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus 23 7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 34 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
Leviticus 3 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 19 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Leviticus 19 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus 22 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Numbers 4 20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Numbers 35 29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Deuteronomy 1 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deuteronomy 4 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 4 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy 4 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Deuteronomy 6 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy 12 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 12 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy 22 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
1 Samuel 12 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
2 Samuel 18 13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
Ezra 9 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Job 10 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Job 16 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 27 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 28 12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28 18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job 32 9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job 34 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Job 35 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Psalms 2 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psalms 17 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Psalms 26 4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalms 31 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms 32 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Psalms 33 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalms 34 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 35 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 36 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms 37 1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 37 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psalms 39 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms 49 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 60 11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 62 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms 74 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalms 75 4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: