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Isa 29:21 — That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

make		Jdg 12:6; Mat 22:15; Luk 11:53,54
and lay		Jer 18:18; Jer 20:7-10; Jer 26:2-8; Amo 5:10-12; Amo 7:10-17; Mic 2:6,7
and turn		Pro 28:21; Eze 13:19; Amo 5:11,12; Mal 3:5; Mat 26:15; Act 3:14; Jam 5:6

Correlating Passages

make

	Jdg 12:6	Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
	Mat 22:15	Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in [his] talk.
	Luk 11:53	And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
	Luk 11:54	Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

and lay

	Jer 18:18	Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
	Jer 20:7	O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
	Jer 20:8	For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
	Jer 20:9	Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].
	Jer 20:10	For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
	Jer 26:2	Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
	Jer 26:3	If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
	Jer 26:4	And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
	Jer 26:5	To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened;
	Jer 26:6	Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
	Jer 26:7	So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
	Jer 26:8	Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
	Amo 5:10	They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
	Amo 5:11	Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
	Amo 5:12	For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
	Amo 7:10	Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
	Amo 7:11	For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
	Amo 7:12	Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
	Amo 7:13	But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king's chapel, and it [is] the king's court.
	Amo 7:14	Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no prophet, neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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	Mic 2:6	Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame.
	Mic 2:7	O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

and turn

	Pro 28:21	To have respect of persons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress.
	Eze 13:19	And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?
	Amo 5:11	Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
	Amo 5:12	For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
	Mal 3:5	And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Mat 26:15	And said [unto them], What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
	Act 3:14	But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
	Jam 5:6	Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

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