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Job 33:14-30
For God [does reveal His will; He] speaks not only once, but more than once, even though men do not regard it [including you, Job]. [One may hear God's voice] in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men while slumbering upon the bed, Then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction [terrifying them with warnings], read more.
That He may withdraw man from his purpose and cut off pride from him [disgusting him with his own disappointing self-sufficiency]. He holds him back from the pit [of destruction], and his life from perishing by the sword [of God's destructive judgments]. [God's voice may be heard by man when] he is chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones or while all his bones are firmly set, So that his desire makes him loathe food, and even dainty dishes [nauseate him]. His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yes, his soul draws near to corruption, and his life to the inflicters of death (the destroyers). [God's voice may be heard] if there is for the hearer a messenger or an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him [how to be upright and in right standing with God], Then [God] is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down into the pit [of destruction]; I have found a ransom (a price of redemption, an atonement)! [Then the man's] flesh shall be restored; it becomes fresher and more tender than a child's; he returns to the days of his youth. He prays to God, and He is favorable to him, so that he sees His face with joy; for [God] restores to him his righteousness (his uprightness and right standing with God -- "with its joys). He looks upon other men or sings out to them, I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me, or He did not requite me [according to my iniquity]! [God] has redeemed my life from going down to the pit [of destruction], and my life shall see the light! [Elihu comments] Behold, God does all these things twice, yes, three times, with a man, To bring back his life from the pit [of destruction], that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease. Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationBeing A KidBabies, Figurative UseLipsSilenceStrength, SpiritualTeachers Of The LawChildren And The KingdomEnemies Of GodNot AvengingPraise To God Is FittingBabies Used As A Spiritual ImageKidsbabyPraising God With Your Mouth

Matthew 4:19
And He said to them, “Follow Me [as My disciples, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk], and I will make you fishers of men.” Verse ConceptsFishesCommitment, to Jesus Christequipping, spiritualdiscipleship, nature ofdisciples, characteristics ofHow Disciples Are CalledInvitationsMissionaries, Call OfAdventureFishermenCalling, Of IndividualsSoul WinnersInstructions About FollowingWitness Before MenCalledLearning From JesusDiscipleshipFishmanpeoplefollowing

Matthew 5:13-16
You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. read more.
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

Luke 1:17
It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous [which is to seek and submit to the will of God]—in order to make ready a people [perfectly] prepared [spiritually and morally] for the Lord.” Verse ConceptsHeraldPower, HumanSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfProphecies Concerning ChristForerunnersDivine MessengerCausing People To TurnPeople Going BeforeAcquiring WisdomFathers And SonsPowerful Individualsparentingdisobedience

Luke 5:10
and so were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon [Peter]. Jesus said to Simon, “Have no fear; from now on you will be catching men!” Verse ConceptsInvitationsNetsPeter, The DiscipleFear, Of UnknownSoul WinnersFishingpartnership

Luke 10:17
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” Verse ConceptsExorcismsMiracles, Nature OfSatan, Resistance ToPower Of Christ, ShownChrist's Authority Over EvilApostles, Miraculous PowerApostles, Given Miraculous PowerIn The Name Of ChristSeventiesMan's Authority Over The DevilDemonsThe DevilCasting Out Demons

Luke 10:21
In that very hour He was overjoyed and rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and He said, “I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things [relating to salvation] from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants [the childlike and untaught]. Yes, Father, for this way was [Your gracious will and choice, and was] well-pleasing in Your sight. Verse ConceptsecstasyChildren, attitudes towardsBirth, SpiritualGod, Sovereignty OfHeart, DivineHeaven And EarthExamples Of Life In The SpiritThe Lord's PrayerLordship, Human And DivinePleasurePraise, Examples OfPraise, Manner And Methods OfWisdom, Source Of HumanChrist's JoyThe Holy Spirit And PraiseThe Trinity In SalvationThe Holy Spirit Giving JoyThe Holy Spirit, And PrayerChildren And The KingdomRelationship Of Father And SonGod's Things Concealed

John 15:16
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualFruit, SpiritualAdventureelection, responsibilities ofelection, to salvationBeing ChosenConversion, nature ofChosen InstrumentsMission, Of The ChurchPrayer, As A Response To GodPrayer, God's Promises ConcerningPredestination, Of PersonsAsking In Jesus NameAsking For HelpAbiding With GodCalling In Christ's NameChosen DisciplesPotential Of FruitThe FatherGod Answers PrayerfruitfulnessFirst Love

1 Corinthians 1:26-29
For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth. [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame. And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, read more.
So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.

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1 Thessalonians 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel [that tells the good news of salvation through faith in Christ], so we speak, not as [if we were trying] to please people [to gain power and popularity], but to please God who examines our hearts [expecting our best]. Verse ConceptsApostles, Authority In ChurchPleasing GodPreaching, Importance OfStewardshipWorthinessDuties Of Christian ServantsMinisters, Description OfMinisters, Should Not BeMen PleasersGod Testing PeopleGod And The HeartNot Pleasing PeoplePeople Commended By GodPutting God FirstTrusting OthersTestsNot Being Alonemotives

1 Timothy 1:11
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. Verse ConceptsGospel, Descriptions OfPreaching, Importance OfStewardshipEntrusting

1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you, turn away from worldly and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], and the contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”— Verse ConceptsCounterfeitsFalse ReligionFaithfulness, To GodBabblersFalsehoodCareGuardsPhilosophyRenunciationStewardshipTrustworthinessTrustworthyFalse Doctrines, AvoidanceAvoiding EvilChantingEntrustingDrawbacks To KnowledgeLack Of MeaningContradictingScienceConfidentialityFake FriendsimprovementGuarding Yourself

James 5:20
let the [latter] one know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save that one’s soul from death and cover a multitude of sins [that is, obtain the pardon of the many sins committed by the one who has been restored]. Verse ConceptsCoveringConversion, examples ofevangelism, motivation forApostate BelieversSin, Deliverance From GodSoul WinnersSaving PeopleBackslidersErrorforgiving othersForgiving YourselfDeath Of Loved OneLove And ForgivenessThe SoulForgiveness KjvRemoving People From Your LifeLosing SomeoneMaking Mistakessoulwandering

2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. When he commits iniquity (wrongdoing), I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the strokes of the sons of man. Verse ConceptsFloggingdiscipline, divineChastisementKnowing God, Effects OfLordship, Human And DivinePunishment, By GodSons Of GodSpiritual AdoptionAdoptionParents Being Wrong

Genesis 3:15

“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”
 Verse ConceptsAbrahamCrushingAdam, PriviledgesBruisesenemies, of Jesus ChristdefeatAngels opposed to GodChrist, The Seed OfHeelsMission, Of Jesus ChristPainPersecution, Nature OfSnakesSuffering, Of Jesus ChristThe Virgin BirthChrist, Humanity OfJesus Christ, Prophecies OfDesign Of MarriageProphecies Concerning ChristForeordained PlansBirths ForetoldMessianic PropheciesWomen Doing WrongChrist's WoundsSeedsempathycrusheschildbearing

1 Samuel 15:1-19
Samuel told Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people Israel. Now listen and heed the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I have considered and will punish what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way when [Israel] came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. read more.
So Saul assembled the men and numbered them at Telaim -- "200,000 men on foot and 10,000 men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley. Saul warned the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. And he took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, though he utterly destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword. Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but all that was undesirable or worthless they destroyed utterly. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, I regret making Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not performed My commands. And Samuel was grieved and angry [with Saul], and he cried to the Lord all night. When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, he was told, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up for himself a monument or trophy [of his victory] and passed on and went down to Gilgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of the Lord. I have performed what the Lord ordered. And Samuel said, What then means this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me tonight. Saul said to him, Say on. Samuel said, When you were small in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel? And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites; and fight against them until they are consumed. Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord, but swooped down upon the plunder and did evil in the Lord's sight?

2 Kings 9:6-7
And Jehu arose, and they went into the house. And the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel. You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the Lord [who have died] at the hands of Jezebel.

2 Kings 19:25-26
[But, says the God of Israel] Have you not heard how I ordained long ago what now I have brought to pass? I planned it in olden times, that you [king of Assyria] should [be My instrument to] lay waste fortified cities, making them ruinous heaps. That is why their inhabitants had little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like plants of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, blasted before it is grown up.

2 Chronicles 22:7
But the downfall of Ahaziah was ordained by God, in that he went to Joram (Jehoram). For when he arrived there he went out [as an ally] with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

Psalm 17:13-14
Arise, O Lord! Confront and forestall them, cast them down! Deliver my life from the wicked by Your sword, From men by Your hand, O Lord, from men of this world [these poor moths of the night] whose portion in life is idle and vain. Their bellies are filled with Your hidden treasure [what You have stored up]; their children are satiated, and they leave the rest [of their] wealth to their babes.

Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of My anger, the staff in whose hand is My indignation and fury [against Israel's disobedience]! I send [the Assyrian] against a hypocritical and godless nation and against the people of My wrath; I command him to take the spoil and to seize the prey and to tread them down like the mire in the streets.

Isaiah 13:5

They are coming from a distant country,
From the end of heaven [the farthest horizon]—
The Lord and the weapons of His indignation—
To destroy the whole land. Verse ConceptsBabylonGod's IndignationAnger Of God, ConsequencesWeaponsDestruction Of CountriesWeapons Of GodGood Things From Far AwayPeople From Far Away

Isaiah 41:15

“In fact, I have made of you a new, sharp threshing implement with sharp edges;
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
And make the hills like chaff.
 Verse ConceptsTeethThreshingMountains Removed

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Jeremiah 27:8
“But any nation or kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,” says the Lord, “with the sword, with famine and with pestilence (virulent disease), until I have destroyed it by Nebuchadnezzar’s hand. Verse ConceptsPlaguesYokesFamine Coming From God

Jeremiah 51:20-23
You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-ax or maul and weapon of war -- "for with you I break nations in pieces, with you I destroy kingdoms, With you I break in pieces the horse and his rider, with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer, With you I break in pieces man and woman, with you I break in pieces old man and youth, with you I break in pieces young man and maiden, read more.
With you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, with you I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.

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