those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”
Judges 21:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes. American Standard Version (1901) In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Common English Bible In those days there was no king in Israel; each person did what they thought to be right. |
those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,
“You shall not act as we are acting here today, all of us according to our own desires,
In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in, for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them.
The five men went on, and when they came to Laish, they observed the people who were there living securely, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing on earth, and possessing wealth. Furthermore, they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with Aram.
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
So the Israelites departed from there at that time by tribes and families, and they went out from there to their own territories.