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Mic. 6:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and whatp doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to θwalk humbly with thy God?

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Deut. 10:12• ¹²{i}And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,{/i} (Deut. 10:12)

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humble thyself to walk.

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O man.

Rom. 9:20• ²⁰Nay rather, O man, who art thou that answerest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded, Why madest thou me thus? (Rom. 9:20)

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1 Cor. 7:16• ¹⁶For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife? (1 Cor. 7:16)

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James 2:20• ²⁰But art thou willing to learn, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? (James 2:20)

what is.

1 Sam. 12:23• ²³{i}Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you; and I will teach you the good and right way{/i}. (1 Sam. 12:23)

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Neh. 9:13• ¹³{i}And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.{/i} (Neh. 9:13)

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Psa. 73:28• ²⁸And as for me [it is] good to draw near to God:{HR}I have made Adonai Jehovah my refuge to declare all thy works. (Psa. 73:28)

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Lam. 3:26• ²⁶It is good that one should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. (Lam. 3:26)

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Luke 10:42• ⁴²but there is need of one; and Mary hath chosen the good part, such as shall not be taken from her. (Luke 10:42)

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Rom. 7:16• ¹⁶But if what I will not, this I practice, I consent to the law that [it is] right. (Rom. 7:16)

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2 Thess. 2:16• ¹⁶But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, that loved us and gave everlasting encouragement and good hope through grace, (2 Thess. 2:16)

and what.

Deut. 10:12‑13• ¹²{i}And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,{/i}
¹³{i}to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?{/i} (Deut. 10:12‑13)

to do.

Gen. 18:19• ¹⁹For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment; that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. (Gen. 18:19)

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1 Sam. 15:22• ²²And Samuel said,{HR}Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,{HR}As in obeying the voice of Jehovah?{HR}Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,{HR}And to hearken than the fat of rams. (1 Sam. 15:22)

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Prov. 21:3• ³To exercise justice and judgment{HR}[Is] more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice. (Prov. 21:3)

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Eccl. 12:13• ¹³[This is] the end of the matter;{HR}All hath been heard:{HR}Fear God, and keep His commandments;{HR}For this [is] the whole [duty] of man. (Eccl. 12:13)

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Isa. 1:16‑19• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes.
¹⁷Cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
¹⁹If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (Isa. 1:16‑19)

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Isa. 58:6‑11• ⁶[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
⁷[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor wanderers to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
⁸Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
⁹Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and the speaking vanity;
¹⁰and [if] thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity [be] as the noonday:
¹¹and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters deceive not. (Isa. 58:6‑11)

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Jer. 7:3‑6• ³Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
⁴Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, are these.
⁵For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
⁶if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: (Jer. 7:3‑6)

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Hos. 6:6• ⁶For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (Hos. 6:6)

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Hos. 12:6• ⁶Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. (Hos. 12:6)

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Amos 5:24• ²⁴But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. (Amos 5:24)

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Zeph. 2:3• ³Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger. (Zeph. 2:3)

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Matt. 3:8‑10• ⁸{i}Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.{/i}
⁹{i}And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.{/i} (Matt. 3:8‑10)

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Mark 12:30‑34• ³⁰and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
³¹And a second like it [is] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
³²And the scribe said unto him, Right, teacher, thou hast said the truth; for he is one, and there is none other;
³³and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love neighbour as oneself, is more than the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
³⁴{i}And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him,{/i} Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. {i}And no one dared question him anymore.{/i} (Mark 12:30‑34)

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Luke 11:42• ⁴²{i}But{/i} woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe the mint and the rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside. (Luke 11:42)

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Titus 2:11‑12• ¹¹For the grace of God appeared bringing salvation to all men,
¹²instructing us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godlily in this present age, (Titus 2:11‑12)

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2 Peter 1:5‑8• ⁵But for this very thing also, bringing in besides all diligence, in your faith supply virtue, and in virtue knowledge,
⁶and in knowledge temperance, and in temperance endurance, and in endurance godliness,
⁷and in godliness brotherly affection, and in brotherly affection love:
⁸For these things being in you and abounding make [you] not idle nor unfruitful for the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2 Peter 1:5‑8)

love.

Psa. 37:26• ²⁶All the day [is he] being gracious and lending;{HR}And his seed [is] for a blessing. (Psa. 37:26)

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Psa. 112:4,9• ⁴There ariseth in the darkness light for the upright:{HR}Gracious and merciful and righteous [is he].
⁹He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor;{HR}His righteousness standeth forever,{HR}His horn shall be exalted with glory. (Psa. 112:4,9)

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Isa. 57:1‑2• ¹The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart; and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.
²He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each] that hath walked [in] his uprightness. (Isa. 57:1‑2)

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Matt. 5:7• ⁷Blessed the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. (Matt. 5:7)

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Matt. 18:32‑35• ³²Then his lord, having summoned him, saith to him, Wicked bondman, all that debt I forgave thee, since thou didst beseech me:
³³oughtedst not thou also to have pitied thy fellow-bondman, as I also pitied thee?
³⁴And his lord, in wrath, delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was owing to him.
³⁵Thus also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not from your hearts each his brother. (Matt. 18:32‑35)

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Luke 6:36• ³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful. (Luke 6:36)

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Eph. 4:32• ³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as elect of God, holy [and] beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering; (Col. 3:12)

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1 Peter 3:8• ⁸Finally [be] all likeminded, sympathetic, brother-loving, tender-hearted, humble-minded; (1 Peter 3:8)

walk humbly.

Heb. humble thyself to walk.

Gen. 5:22• ²²And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. (Gen. 5:22)

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Lev. 26:41• ⁴¹so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, (Lev. 26:41)

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2 Chron. 30:11• ¹¹Nevertheless, divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 30:11)

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2 Chron. 32:26• ²⁶{i}And Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:26)

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2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19,23• ¹²{i}And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,{/i}
¹³{i}and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.{/i} Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
¹⁹{i}And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.{/i}
²³{i}And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass{/i}, (2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19,23)

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2 Chron. 34:27• ²⁷{i}Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee , saith Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 34:27)

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Isa. 57:15• ¹⁵For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy, I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isa. 57:15)

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Isa. 66:2• ²Even all those [things] hath my hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith Jehovah. But to this [man] will I look, to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and trembling at my word. (Isa. 66:2)

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Ezek. 16:63• ⁶³that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth anymore because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 16:63)

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Dan. 4:37• ³⁷{i}Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.{/i} (Dan. 4:37)

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Matt. 5:3• ³Blessed the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matt. 5:3)

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Luke 18:13‑17• ¹³And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was striking upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me the sinner.
¹⁴I say unto you, this [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]; for everyone who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
¹⁵And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them; but the disciples when they saw [it] rebuked them.
¹⁶But Jesus calling them to [him] said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.
¹⁷Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter into it. (Luke 18:13‑17)

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Rom. 10:1‑3• ¹Brethren, the delight of my heart and my supplication to God, on their behalf [is] for salvation.
²For I bear witness to them that they have zeal for God but not according to knowledge.
³For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], they have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:1‑3)

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James 4:6‑10• ⁶But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse hands, sinners, and purify hearts, ye double-minded.
⁹Sorrow, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned unto mourning, and [your] joy unto heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:6‑10)

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1 Peter 5:5‑6• ⁵Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly.
⁶Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, (1 Peter 5:5‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodnessa, and to walk humbly with thy God?

JND Translation Notes

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Chesed, "mercy," "loving-kindness," as 2 Chron. 6.42.

W. Kelly Translation

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He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?