He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.
After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.
So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:
Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.
The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.
<A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.
No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;
So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.
See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.
Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
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