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And when thou art at prayer, use not vain repetitions, like the heathen: for they imagine that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Verse ConceptsPagansPrayerfulnessHeathenMan's Conduct Towards GodChantingLack Of MeaningWhat Foreigners DoSaying RepeatedlyExamples of secret prayerRewards Of RitualPraying

But to whom shall I resemble this generation? it is like little boys sitting in the places of concourse, and calling to their companions,

Verse ConceptsGenerationsWicked Described AsLikeningMarketplacesCommerceComparingLike ChildrenLikening Peoplehumor

Another parable proposed he to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man who sowed good seed in his field:

Verse ConceptsLikeningFigurative FieldsLikening ThingsSowing Seeds

Another parable he proposed to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and sowed in his field:

Verse ConceptsLikeningParables Of SowingFigurative FieldsLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomSeedsSowing Seeds

Another parable spake he to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and covered up in three measures of flour, until the whole was leavened.

Verse ConceptsFoodExaggerationsDoughKingdom Of God, Coming OfParablesWeights And Measures, DryYeastLeavenParables Of ChristLeavenedHidden ThingsThree Other ThingsOther Volume Measureswomanhood

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field: which when a man findeth, he hideth, and for joy thereof, goeth away and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Verse ConceptsPersonal ConsecrationFindingHeaven, Inheritance OfSpiritual InvestmentJoy, Of The ChurchKingdom Of God, Entry IntoTreasureParables Of ChristSpiritual TreasuresFigurative FieldsFinding ThingsHidden ThingsBuying God's Giftsales

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchantman in search of beautiful pearls:

Verse ConceptsPearlsSeeking For Concrete ThingsParables Of The Kingdomjewelryseeking

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and colleting fish of every kind:

Verse ConceptsNetsMixed MultitudeFishingParables Of The KingdomFishPatience In Relationshipsgatheringlakes

They say unto him, Yes, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man, the master of a family, who bringeth out of his storehouse things new and old.

Verse ConceptsHousesKeysTeachers Of The LawChristian TraditionsPeople Of The KingdomtrainingNew

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven like unto a certain king who purposed to settle his account with his servants.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheServanthood, In SocietyLikeningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomSettling Accountsaccounting

FOR the kingdom of heaven is like a man, the master of a family, who went out at break of day, to hire labourers into his vineyard.

Verse ConceptsMorningMetaphorical VineyardsLikeningIn The MorningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomWorkers

THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Verse ConceptsLampsTypesVirginProphecies Said By JesusLikeningTen PeopleLikening ThingsParables Of The Kingdom

For the case is like that of a man, who travelling abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.

Verse ConceptsTalentsRich, TheLikeningEntrustingLikening ThingsPropertyGifts And Talentsmathlent

And he arose instantly, and taking up his couch, went out before them all; so that they were all astonished, and glorified God, saying, We never before saw any thing like this.

Verse ConceptsHealingReverence, And God's NatureAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesLiving WitnessesUnique EventsCrowds AmazedPeople Getting UpSpecific Praising Of God

and these in like manner are they who were sown on the rocky soil; who when they have heard the word, instantly with joy receive it;

Verse ConceptsShallownessSuddenlyHearing God's WordRejoicing In God's Word

And he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God, and under what parabolic figure shall I represent it?

Verse ConceptsComparingJesus Using ParablesParables Of The Kingdom

It is like a grain of mustard, which when it is sown in the earth, is among the least of all the seeds which are upon the earth:

Verse ConceptsSmall ThingsPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seeds

And with many such like parables spake he to them the word.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingHearing ChristJesus Using Parables

For leaving the command of God, ye adhere to the tradition of men, the washings of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye practise.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTForsaking God's ThingsMan's Teachingculture

abrogating the word of God by the tradition, which ye have transmitted down; and many such like things ye do.

Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRejecting God's WordThe Word Of Godculture

and the second took her, and died, and neither did he leave issue; and the third in like manner.

Verse ConceptsSecond BeingThird PersonTaking A WifeSecond MarriageDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

And he spake to them in the course of his teaching, Beware of the scribes, who love to go about in trailing robes, and like salutations in the places of concourse,

Verse ConceptsGreetingsMarketsRobesMarketplacesLong ThingsFine ClothesSpoken Greetingszealotsdoctrine

For these days shall bring tribulation, such as the like hath never been from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, and never shall be more.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDBeginningUnique EventsFrom The Beginning

And he said unto them, Ye will probably say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself! the works which we have heard to have been performed by thee at Capernaum, do the like here in thy own country.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsPhysicianInfidelity To GodGod As DoctorJesus HealingOld Sayings

Every one who cometh to me, and heareth my words, and puts them in practice, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Verse ConceptsLikeningHearing ChristLikening PeopleDoing God's Works

he is like to a man, building a house, who digged, and sunk deep, and laid the foundation on a rock; and when there was a flood, the river rushed violently against that house, and was not of force to shake it, for it was founded on a rock.

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsStones For Protection

But he that heareth, and doth not practice, is like a man who built his house on the earth without a foundation; against which the river rushed violently, and immediately it fell; and the crash of the fall of that house was great.

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling

And the Lord said, To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Verse ConceptsGenerationsLikeningComparingLikening PeopleGay Marriage

They are like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to each other, and saying, We have played the flute to you, and ye have not danced; we have raised the cry of mourning, and ye have not wept.

Verse ConceptsdanceFlutesAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesMarketsMarketplacesMusic To CelebrateLike ChildrenNot Mourning

Observe the lillies how they grow up, they toil not, nor spin; but I tell you, that Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.

Verse ConceptsNaturePlantsSolomon, Character OfSpinning And WeavingFine ClothesPlants Growing UpNot ToilingGrowingRosesBeauty And Self Worth

Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I compare it?

Verse ConceptsLikening ThingsParables Of The Kingdom

It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put into his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged on its branches.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureParables Of ChristSmall ThingsPlants Growing Up

It is like leaven, which a woman taking, covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Verse ConceptsFoodWeights And Measures, DryLeavenedHidden ThingsThree Other Things

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou hast received thy good things during thy life, and Lazarus, in like manner, what was afflictive: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessRiches, Ungodly Use OfDeath Of The Saints, Results InPainful MemoriesReversalsGiving Good ThingsBad SituationsGod Has ComfortedOvercoming Adversity

In that day, let not the man who is upon the roof, and his goods in the house, go down to carry them away: and he that is in the field, in like manner, let him not return for any things behind him.

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going DownPeople not returning

Then the third took her; and also all the seven in like manner: and left no children, and died.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenThird PersonDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsTaking A Wife

yet have ye not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, that I know him not, I should be like you, a liar: but I know him, and observe his word.

Verse ConceptsChrist's Knowledge Of The FatherChrist Knowing GodI Keep The CommandmentsThose Who Are Liars

Some said, That this is he: but others, That he is like him: he himself said, I am he.

Verse ConceptsLike People By NatureThis Is Me

Then Jesus cometh, and taketh the loaf, and distributed to them, and of the fish in like manner.

Verse ConceptsFishesThose Who Provided A MealFish

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like myself; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall speak to you.

Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfMoses, Significance OfChrist Like PeopleJesus The Prophet

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divinity is like to gold, or silver, or stone sculptured by human art or contrivance.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritFalse ReligionGoldSculptureSkillStonesEvolutionProofs Of God's ExistenceStone ItemsIdolatryDivineDivinityGodheadimaginationartistsimage

And coming to us, he took Paul's girdle, and binding both his own hands and feet together, said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, The man, whose girdle this is, shall the Jews bind in like manner at Jerusalem, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Verse ConceptsBeltsWarning IndividualsSuffering From ForeignersSpeaking By The SpiritTying Up

Even as Isaiah had said before, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha."

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsPredicting The FutureSimilar Items

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

Verse ConceptsStatusSlavesConsider Your Call To SalvationSlave Or FreeBeing Devoted to GodChristian LibertyReligious FreedomHard WorkslaveryFreedomFree WillBeing Contentchristianityfree

In like manner also he took the cup, after they had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Verse ConceptsCups, Literal UseCovenant, the newBlood, of Jesus ChristLord's SupperNewnessRevelation, In OtSacramentsSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfRemembering ChristBlood Of The Covenantcommunionremembrance

In like manner things inanimate, giving sound, whether the pipe, or the harp, unless they express a distinction in their tones, how shall it be known what is piped, or what is harped?

Verse ConceptsFlutesHarpsIgnorant Of FactsBeing Differentinstruments

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAlcoholWatchfulness, Of LeadersExclusionRevelryAlcohol ConsumptionWarning IndividualsThings LikeDo Not Get DrunkDrunkennessSexual ImmoralityBeing GayGay Marriagepracticealcoholismdrunkards

In like manner do ye also joy and rejoice with me.

In like manner also the good works [of some] are previously manifest; and it is not possible that what they have besides should be concealed.

Verse ConceptsThings Manifestdeeds

And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus;

Verse ConceptsCultsFalse Teachers, Examples OfApostasy, Nt Examplescanceratheismgossiping

The younger men in like manner exhort to be sober minded.

Verse ConceptsImmaturityYoung MenTraining Young People

And the tabernacle also, and all the vessels employed in the divine service, he in like manner sprinkled with blood.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodTemple Utensils In Use

For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass;

Verse ConceptsMirrorsHearing God's WordOne's Deeds

But was not Rahab the harlot in like manner justified by works, when she entertained the messengers, and sent them away by a different road?

Verse ConceptsProstitutionSpiesWelcoming Other PeopleJustified By WorksWorks Of Faith

Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.

Verse ConceptsAnswered Prayerdrought, physicalElijah, Prophecies OfRainMiracles Of ElijahPrayer, Offered WithAsking PermissionThree And A Half YearsLack Of RainLike People By NatureGod Answered PrayerMonthsPassion

As Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities, in like manner with them abandoned to whoredom, and going after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the judicial punishment of eternal fire.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversBestialityCivilizationHomosexualityEternal JudgementTwo CitiesSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentgayssexSexual ImmoralityBeing Gay

In like manner also do these men, even when they dream, defile indeed the flesh, despise sovereignty, and revile dignities.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Objects OfCivic DutiesHonouring RulersAnarchyMisleading DreamsRespecting Authority

Wo unto them! for they have walked in the way of Cain, and have eagerly run in Balaam's erroneous path of hire, and have perished in opposition, like Corah.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyAbel and CainNicolaitansRebellion of Satan and Angels

and in the midst of the seven lamps one like unto a son of man, clothed to the very feet, and girded about the breasts with a golden zone;

Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandJesus As Son Of ManChestsFine ClothesGold OrnamentsLike Men

And to the angel of the church which is at Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like the molten brass;

Verse ConceptsBronzeChurch, Examples OfChrist's Exalted GloryFire Of ChristEyes In ProphecyWriting LettersThings Like BronzeTypes Of Feet

And he that sat was in appearance like a stone of jasper and sardine: and a rainbow encircled the throne, like in hue to an emerald.

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsJewelsRainbowsRainSymbolsTheophanyPrecious StonesJewellery And GodAppearances ofThe RainbowColorRainbow

And before the throne was a sea of glass like crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and within the circle of the throne, were four living beings full of eyes before and behind.

Verse ConceptsCrystalsMineralsSeaCherubim, At God's ThroneFour CreaturesSea Of GlassTransparencyEyes In ProphecyIn FrontFront And BackExpanse Of The SeaThe OceanThe Sea

And the first living being was like a lion, and the second living being was like a calf, and the third living being had a face as a man, and the fourth living being was like an eagle with wings expanded.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One FourthEaglesCreatures Like LionsFirst ThingsLike CreaturesSecond BeingThird PersonFourthLike MenThose FlyingRainbowflying

And he opened the pit of the abyss; and a smoke ascended out of the pit like the smoke of a vast furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

Verse ConceptsAbyssFurnacesAirThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsKeysDarkness During Daytime

And the figures of the locusts were like horses equipped for war; and upon their heads there were as crowns, like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Verse ConceptsLocustsThings Like GoldCrowns On CreaturesLike Menbugscrowns

And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and they had power to hurt men five months.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreTailsScorpionsSnakebitesPeople Possibly Doing EvilHurtEnd TimesThe Rapturebugshurtingwomanhood

For their powers are in their mouth, and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do hurt.

Verse ConceptsSnakesTailsThings Like SnakesOther References To MouthsPeople Possibly Doing EvilHurt

AND there was given me a cane like a measuring staff; and the angel stood by, saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship therein.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring RodReedsWeights And Measures, LinearWorship, Times ForAltars, In HeavenRodsPlans For A New TempleWorshipping Godmeasurement

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.

Verse ConceptsLeopardThroneLions, Figurative Use OfAnimals, Types OfBearsCreatures Like LionsLike CreaturesOther References To Mouths