MOTIVE

Passages on this topic · 95

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

• Numbers 32:1

  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

• Numbers 32:2

  the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

• Numbers 32:3

  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

• Numbers 32:4

  the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”

• Numbers 32:5

  They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

• Numbers 32:6

  Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

• Numbers 32:7

  Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

• Numbers 32:8

  Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

• Numbers 32:9

  For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

• Numbers 32:10

  Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

• Numbers 32:11

  ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

• Numbers 32:12

  except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed Yahweh completely.’

• Numbers 32:13

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight, was consumed.

• Numbers 32:14

  “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.

• Numbers 32:15

  For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

• Numbers 32:16

  They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

• Numbers 32:17

  but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

• Numbers 32:18

  We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.

• Numbers 32:19

  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”

• Numbers 32:20

  Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

• Numbers 32:21

  and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

• Numbers 32:22

  and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.

• Numbers 32:23

  “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

• Numbers 32:24

  Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”

• Numbers 32:25

  The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

• Numbers 32:26

  Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

• Numbers 32:27

  but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”

• Numbers 32:28

  So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 32:29

  Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

• Numbers 32:30

  but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

• Numbers 32:31

  The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.

• Numbers 32:32

  We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

• Joshua 22:9

  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

• Joshua 22:10

  When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

• Joshua 22:11

  The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.”

• Joshua 22:12

  When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

• Joshua 22:13

  The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.

• Joshua 22:14

  With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

• Joshua 22:15

  They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

• Joshua 22:16

  “Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

• Joshua 22:17

  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

• Joshua 22:18

  that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

• Joshua 22:19

  However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than Yahweh our God’s altar.

• Joshua 22:20

  Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

• Joshua 22:21

  Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

• Joshua 22:22

  “The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

• Joshua 22:23

  that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

• Joshua 22:24

  “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

• Joshua 22:25

  For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

• Joshua 22:26

  “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

• Joshua 22:27

  but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’

• Joshua 22:28

  “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of Yahweh’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’

• Joshua 22:29

  “Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

• Joshua 22:30

  When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

• Joshua 22:31

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of Yahweh’s hand.”

• Joshua 22:32

  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

• Joshua 22:33

  The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

• Joshua 22:34

  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

• 2 Samuel 10:2

  David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

• 2 Samuel 10:3

  But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

• 2 Kings 5:5

  The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

• 2 Kings 5:6

  He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

• 2 Kings 5:7

  When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

• 1 Chronicles 19:3

  But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

• 1 Chronicles 19:4

  So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

• Job 1:10

  Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

• Job 1:11

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 2:4

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Psalms 106:8

  Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

• Ezekiel 36:21

  But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.

• Ezekiel 36:22

  Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.

• Ezekiel 36:32

  Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.

• Matthew 6:1

  “Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 6:2

  Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:3

  But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

• Matthew 6:4

  so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:5

  “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:6

  But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:7

  In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

• Matthew 6:8

  Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

• Matthew 6:9

  Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

• Matthew 6:10

  Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

• Matthew 6:11

  Give us today our daily bread.

• Matthew 6:12

  Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

• Matthew 6:13

  Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

• Matthew 6:14

  “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

• Matthew 6:15

  But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

• Matthew 6:16

  “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:17

  But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

• Matthew 6:18

  so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

• 1 John 3:12

  unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.