Life Lesson (verse Obadiah 1:4)
God hates the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Life Lesson (verse Obadiah 1:11)
Silence, oftentimes is a form of participation.
Life Lesson (verse Obadiah 1:12)
Pride rejoices in another's distress, but humility mourns.
Life Lesson (verse Obadiah 1:16)
God is a shield to those who walk uprightly.
Life Lesson (verse Obadiah 1:21)
God will make all things right.
Genesis 25:21-28 NKJV
21 Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.23 And the Lord said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.” 24 So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau.26 Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.27So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Numbers 20:17-18 NKJV
17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”18 Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
2 Chr. 28:17 NKJV
For again the Edomites had come, attacked Judah, and carried away captives.
James 4:6 NKJV
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
Jeremiah 49:7-10 NKJV
7 Against Edom.
Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom vanished?
8 Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
The time that I will punish him.
9 If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?
10 But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,[a]
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And he is no more.
Pro. 31:8 NKJV
Open your mouth for the speechless,
in the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Ezekiel 3:18-19 ESV
"If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul."
Proverbs 24:17 NKJV
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles
Matthew 21:12-13 NKJV
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
Matthew 5:42 NKJV
"Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away."
Isaiah 58:6-7 NKJV
"6 Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?"
Psalm 84:11 NKJV
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
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