421 Bible Verses about people

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Isaiah 52:6

For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says, 'Here I am.'"

Psalm 95:7

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

Jeremiah 11:14

So, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them."

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all."

Jeremiah 5:14

Because of that, the Lord, the God who rules over all, said to me, "Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up."

Psalm 85:8

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

Zephaniah 3:9

Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord's name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.

James 2:9

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

Luke 14:16

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

Psalm 81:13

If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!

Ezekiel 3:19

But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life.

James 2:3

do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, "You sit here in a good place," and to the poor person, "You stand over there," or "Sit on the floor"?

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A Solitary People

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.

A Tenth Of People

Judges 20:10

We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel."

A Thousand People

Joshua 23:10

One of you makes a thousand run away, for the Lord your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

According To People

Genesis 47:12

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.

Adding People

Genesis 30:24

She named him Joseph, saying, "May the Lord give me yet another son."

Advice On Beating People

Proverbs 17:26

It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

All People

Exodus 10:9

Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the Lord."

Angry People

Genesis 4:5-6

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Animals Eating People

Genesis 37:20

Come now, let's kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we'll see how his dreams turn out!"

Anointed By People

Leviticus 14:17

The priest will then put some of the rest of the olive oil that is in his hand on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering,

Asceticism, People Practicing

Numbers 6:1-8

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

Aspects Of People Made Known

Psalm 139:15

my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

Attitudes, to other people

John 13:34-35

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Authority Delegated To People

Genesis 39:4

So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar appointed Joseph overseer of his household and put him in charge of everything he owned.

Bad People

Matthew 12:34

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Beating People

Exodus 21:18

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

Becoming Like People

1 Corinthians 9:20

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

Blemished People

Leviticus 21:21

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward to present the Lord's gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

Burial Of Unnamed People

1 Kings 13:22

You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, "Do not eat or drink there." Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.'"

Burning People

2 Samuel 23:7

The one who touches them must use an iron instrument or the wooden shaft of a spear. They are completely burned up right where they lie!"

Causing People To Turn

1 Kings 11:2

They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, "You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods." But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.

Choosing People

2 Samuel 16:18

Hushai replied to Absalom, "No, I will be loyal to the one whom the Lord, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen.

Christ Going With People

Matthew 17:1

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

Coming Out Of People

Matthew 15:11

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person."

Contact With People

Genesis 27:21

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."

Corpses Of Other People

Genesis 23:3

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

Crowns For God's People

Isaiah 28:5

At that time the Lord who commands armies will become a beautiful crown and a splendid diadem for the remnant of his people.

Dealing With Many People

Genesis 50:9

Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.

Dealing With Young People

Judges 18:21

They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions.

Defeat Of God's People

Numbers 14:45

So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.

Disorder Among People

Matthew 26:5

But they said, "Not during the feast, so that there won't be a riot among the people."

Easy For People

Numbers 14:9

Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!"

Eight People

Genesis 22:23

(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham's brother Nahor.

Empty People

Ruth 1:21

I left here full, but the Lord has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me 'Naomi,' seeing that the Lord has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?"

Equivalent People

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

Fat Of People

Job 15:27

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

Fat People

Judges 3:17

He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)

Fearing Other People

Genesis 20:8

Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.

Finding People

Genesis 16:7

The Lord's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert -- the spring that is along the road to Shur.

Five People

Luke 12:52

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

Foolish People

1 Kings 3:7

Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David's place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.

For The Sake Of God's People

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

Four People

2 Samuel 21:22

These four were the descendants of Rapha who lived in Gath; they were killed by David and his soldiers.

Gathered To One's People

Psalm 49:19

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

God Beating People

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.

God Can Harm People

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

God Hardening People

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

God Hating People

Leviticus 20:23

You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

God Killed The Peoples

Zephaniah 3:6

"I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.

God Killing All People

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth -- everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."

God Knowing His People

Exodus 33:12

Moses said to the Lord, "See, you have been saying to me, 'Bring this people up,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, 'I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.'

God Might Kill His People

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

God Multipling People

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

God Remembering His People

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

God Renaming People

Isaiah 62:2

Nations will see your vindication, and all kings your splendor. You will be called by a new name that the Lord himself will give you.

God Searching For People

Ezekiel 34:11

"'For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

God Seeing All People

Psalm 14:2

The Lord looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

God Stripping People

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

God Will Kill His People

Ezekiel 21:3

and say to them, 'This is what the Lord says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

God Will Kill The Peoples

Amos 2:3

I will remove Moab's leader; I will kill all Moab's officials with him." The Lord has spoken!

God's Hands On People

Ezekiel 1:3

the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel the son of Buzi, at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. The hand of the Lord came on him there).

God's People Planted

2 Samuel 7:10

I will establish a place for my people Israel and settle them there; they will live there and not be disturbed any more. Violent men will not oppress them again, as they did in the beginning

God's People Sinning

Exodus 32:22

Aaron said, "Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.

Good People

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

Grinding People

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?" The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Guidance, From Godly People

Exodus 32:34

So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin."

Hairy People

Genesis 27:11

"But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

Handing Over People

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs -- the Just One is majestic. But I say, "I'm wasting away! I'm wasting away! I'm doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!"

Hating Peoples

Genesis 43:32

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting to do so.)

Heart, Of Unregenerate People

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The Lord will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

Hiding From People

Deuteronomy 7:20

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

How People Eat

Ezekiel 18:6

does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife, does not have sexual relations with a woman during her period,

Imitating Wicked People

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord's command.

Importunity, Towards People

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.

Impossible For People

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

Judgement On Old People

1 Samuel 2:31

In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father's house. There will not be an old man in your house!

Killing Many People

Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, "The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say, 'The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!'

Leaving People Alone

Nahum 3:7

Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, 'Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?' There will be no one to comfort you!"

Like Good People

Matthew 12:35

The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

Like People In Character

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

Likening People

Matthew 11:16

"To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

Looking Intently At People

Genesis 24:21

Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

Lost People

Jeremiah 50:6

"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

Lowering People

Mark 2:4

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

Making People Holy

Exodus 31:13

"Tell the Israelites, 'Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Marks On People

Exodus 13:9

It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

Marriage, Between God And His People

Ezekiel 16:8-14

"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Meeting People

Genesis 14:17

After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King's Valley).

Memorials For People

Isaiah 56:5

I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.

Mixing People

Daniel 2:43

And in that you saw iron mixed with wet clay, so people will be mixed with one another without adhering to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.

Neglecting People

Deuteronomy 14:27

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

No Water For People

Genesis 21:15

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

Not Believing People

Genesis 45:26

They told him, "Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!" Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

Not Knowing People

Exodus 1:8

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

Not Like People

Exodus 1:19

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women -- for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!"

Not Recognising People

Genesis 27:23

He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.

Not Seeing People

Genesis 9:23

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

Obeying People

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

Only Child Of People

Genesis 22:2

God said, "Take your son -- your only son, whom you love, Isaac -- and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

Other Sad People

Genesis 40:6

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.

Other Unimportant People

Daniel 4:17

This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.'

Pay Attention To People!

Exodus 18:19

Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

Paying Attention To People

Jeremiah 26:5

You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. But you have not paid any attention to them.

People Acting Madly

Ecclesiastes 10:13

At the beginning his words are foolish and at the end his talk is wicked madness,

People Actually Doing Evil

Genesis 43:6

Israel said, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?"

People Appalled

Job 18:20

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

People Appearing

Matthew 17:3

Then Moses and Elijah also appeared before them, talking with him.

People Are The Same

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

People As Rocks

Nehemiah 9:11

You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

People As Signs

Zechariah 3:8

Listen now, Joshua the high priest, both you and your colleagues who are sitting before you, all of you are a symbol that I am about to introduce my servant, the Branch.

People Beginning

Job 15:7

"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

People Being Hated

Psalm 88:8

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

People Being Polluted

Genesis 34:5

When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.

People Being Silent

Job 29:22

After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.

People Bound By Oaths

Judges 15:12

They said to him, "We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Promise me you will not kill me."

People Carrying Live People

2 Kings 4:19

He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

People Changing Their Minds

Exodus 13:17

When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."

People Commended By God

Psalm 22:25

You are the reason I offer praise in the great assembly; I will fulfill my promises before the Lord's loyal followers.

People Cut In Pieces

Judges 19:29

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

People Destroying Foreign Nations

Isaiah 37:11

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

People Drying Things Up

2 Kings 3:19

You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones."

People Eating

John 4:31

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."

People Ended

Genesis 6:13

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

People Exiled

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

People Following People

Exodus 14:17

And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.

People From Far Away

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

People Getting Up

Genesis 23:3

Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

People Giving Clothes

Genesis 24:53

Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

People Going Astray

Jeremiah 50:6

"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

People Going Before

Matthew 17:10

The disciples asked him, "Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"

People Helping Orphans

Deuteronomy 26:12-13

When you finish tithing all your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages.

People Hiding People

Deuteronomy 13:8

You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.

People Hung To Death

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

People Improved

John 4:52

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

People In Caves

Isaiah 2:19

They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

People Involved In Judgement

Exodus 18:13

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

People Jumping

Acts 19:16

Then the man who was possessed by the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them all into submission. He prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

People Keeping

Genesis 41:35

They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh's authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.

People Lacking Authority

Daniel 4:31

While these words were still on the king's lips, a voice came down from heaven: "It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you!

People Made Known

Genesis 45:1

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

People Making Drunk

2 Samuel 11:13

Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

People Mourning Catastrophe

1 Samuel 11:4

When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly.

People Multiplying

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

People Naming Things

Genesis 2:19-20

The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

People Not Abandoning

Exodus 10:26

Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the Lord our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the Lord."

People Not Far Away

Genesis 44:4

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, "Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

People not returning

Job 7:10

He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

People Of Judah

Joshua 14:6

The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea.

People Ostracised

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, "May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy." But they will be put to shame.

People Parting

Genesis 13:9

Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I'll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I'll go to the left."

People Polluting Themselves

Ezekiel 14:11

so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

People Possessing Other Things

Genesis 23:17-18

So Abraham secured Ephron's field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,

People Possibly Doing Evil

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, "You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!"

People Promising

Matthew 14:7

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

People Providing Food

Genesis 42:19

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

People Releasing Others

Genesis 40:14

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

People Renaming People

Genesis 41:45

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

People Rotting

Leviticus 26:39

"'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.

People Sending Creatures

Genesis 8:7

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

People Sending People

Luke 7:8

For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."

People Set Free By People

Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

People Sitting Down

John 6:10

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

People Stripping Off

1 Samuel 31:9

They cut off Saul's head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

People Stripping People

Exodus 32:25

Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.

People Stumbling

John 11:10

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

People Torn To Pieces

Genesis 37:33

He recognized it and exclaimed, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"

People Transformed

Jeremiah 13:23

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

People Tumbling

Joshua 6:20

The rams' horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

People Unwashed

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person."

People Unwilling

John 5:40

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

People Waiting

Genesis 8:10

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

People Wearing Out

Exodus 18:18

You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

People Who Delayed

Genesis 24:55

But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

People Willing

Genesis 24:58

So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" She replied, "I want to go."

People With Apt Names

Genesis 30:13

Leah said, "How happy I am, for women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher.

People With General Knowledge

Job 13:1

"Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

People With Knowledge

Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

People Withered

Lamentations 4:8

(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.

People's Inability To Save

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

People's Inability To Serve God

Joshua 24:19

Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

People's Inability To Understand

Daniel 2:27

Daniel replied to the king, "The mystery that the king is asking about is such that no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or diviners can possibly disclose it to the king.

Peoples Who Fled

Isaiah 2:19

They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

Praising Specific People

Song of Solomon 6:9

But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:

Predestined People

Romans 8:29-30

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Proud People

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them."

Pure People

Psalm 24:4

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

Recognising People

Mark 6:33

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

Reinstating People

Genesis 20:7

But now give back the man's wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don't give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you."

Remembering People

Genesis 40:14

But remember me when it goes well for you, and show me kindness. Make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison,

Removing People From Your Life

Proverbs 25:5

remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Renewal, Of People Of God

Isaiah 40:30-31

Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

Resentment, Against People

Proverbs 3:11-12

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.

Reward, For God's People

1 Corinthians 3:12-15

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

Rules About Young People

Numbers 30:3

"If a young woman who is still living in her father's house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

Scattering The Peoples

Deuteronomy 4:27

Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Seeing People

Genesis 37:18

Now Joseph's brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Seeking But Not Finding People

Song of Solomon 3:1

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

Sending people home

Joshua 24:28

When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land.

Separation From Evil People

Ezra 6:21

The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel.

Servants Of People

Psalm 123:2

Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so my eyes will look to the Lord, our God, until he shows us favor.

Seven People

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you -- Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you --

Short People

Leviticus 21:20

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

Side Of People

1 Samuel 20:25

The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him and Abner at his side. But David's place was vacant.

Six People

1 Chronicles 3:4

These six were born to David in Hebron, where he ruled for seven years and six months. He ruled thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Snares Laid for People

Psalm 35:7

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

Stiffnecked People

Exodus 7:12-13

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

Subtracting From People

Judges 21:3

They said, "Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?" An entire tribe has disappeared from Israel today!"

Taking Other People

Genesis 14:16

He retrieved all the stolen property. He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of the people.

Tall People

1 Samuel 9:2

He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.

Telling Of People's Situations

Genesis 3:11

And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Telling What People Did

Genesis 24:66

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

Telling What People Said

Genesis 27:42

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

Ten People

Genesis 18:32

Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

Thanks To People

Acts 24:3

Most excellent Felix, we acknowledge this everywhere and in every way with all gratitude.

Things Like People

Judges 9:36

Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul, "Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills." But Zebul said to him, "You are seeing the shadows on the hills -- it just looks like men."

Those Jealous Of People

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

Those Looking For People

Genesis 37:15-16

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Those Subjected To People

Psalm 74:8

They say to themselves, "We will oppress all of them." They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.

Throwing People

Exodus 15:1

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. They said, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.

Times Of People

Isaiah 54:9

"As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah's time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah's flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

Unmarried People

Matthew 19:9-12

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery."

Useful People

2 Peter 1:8

For if these things are really yours and are continually increasing, they will keep you from becoming ineffective and unproductive in your pursuit of knowing our Lord Jesus Christ more intimately.

Valuation Of People

Leviticus 27:2-8

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the Lord,

Wealthy People

Exodus 30:15

The rich are not to increase it, and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.

Welcoming Other People

Luke 16:4

I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.'

Where People Live To This Day

Deuteronomy 2:22

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

Why Do People Not Do This?

Leviticus 10:17

"Why did you not eat the sin offering in the sanctuary? For it is most holy and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement on their behalf before the Lord.

Writing On People

Jeremiah 31:33

"But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land," says the Lord. "I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

Wronging Other People

Leviticus 25:14

If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

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