Lot in the Bible

Look at the birds in the sky; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop] or store [things] in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than they are?

Other seeds fell on stony ground, where they did not have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once because the soil wasn't deep.

And Peter took Him aside and began to chide Him, as he said, "Heaven shield you, my Lord! This must never be your lot!"

And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, 'They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot;'

Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.

And having crucified him, they were dividing his garments, casting a lot upon them, what each may take;

Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty, it fell to his lot,

according to the custom of the priesthood he was chosen by lot to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.

The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha! You worry and fuss about a lot of things.

And [then] He said to them, "Be careful and guard yourselves against [practicing] all forms of greed, for a person's life does not consist of having a lot of possessions."

Look at the ravens; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop]; they do not have a storage locker or a barn, and [yet] God feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than those birds?

that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful.

Whoever is faithful with very little is also faithful with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with very little is also dishonest with a lot.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Remember Lot's wife.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

John [the Immerser] was also immersing people in Aenon, near Salem [Note: These locations are thought to have been in northeastern Judea, near the Jordan River], because there was a lot of water there; so people were coming to be immersed.

He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the lot which Jacob gave his son Joseph.

Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now [there] was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand [in] number.

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot."

This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

they said, therefore, to one another, 'We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, 'They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;' the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.

"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."

For that he had come to be reckoned among us and obtained the lot of this ministry. -

to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.

Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias. So he was numbered with the 11 apostles.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Now as soon as it got daylight there was a lot of commotion among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

Then Judas and Silas, who were also prophets, said a lot to encourage and strengthen the brothers.

They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are stirring up a lot of trouble in our city. They are Jews

And, some from among them, were persuaded, and cast in their lot with Paul and Silas; also, of the devout Greeks, a great throng, and, of the chief women, not a few.

Serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of the Jews.

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

Then the tribune replied, "I paid a lot of money for this citizenship of mine."

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

Paul replied, "I wish to God that, whether it would take a little or a lot, not only you, but all those who hear me today, might become [Christians] like me, except [not] with these chains."

But, when Paul had gathered a certain lot of firewood into a bundle, and laid it on the fire, a viper, by reason of the heat, coming forth, fastened on his hand.

Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one??nd whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him??n that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

I am afraid for you, [i.e., for your spiritual safety], that possibly I may have spent a lot of effort on your behalf for nothing.

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

in whom we were also chosen by lot, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things within us according to the counsel of his own will;

an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance.

but if to live in flesh is my lot, this is for me worth the while: and what I shall choose I cannot tell.

I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,

Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

Alexander the blacksmith has done me a lot of harm: the Lord will pay him back for what he has done (beware of him),

So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.

No discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is painful. But afterwards its fruit is seen in the peacefulness of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been trained under it.

Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.

For if you people have a lot of these [qualities] they will keep you from being unproductive and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked

(For, being a righteous man living among them, Lot's righteous spirit was very disturbed every day by the wickedness he heard and saw),

These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.

But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the immoral, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."