Thematic Bible: Designed for
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Covenants » Designed for » Mutual protection
They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
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If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me." Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.
Covenants » Designed for » Procuring assistance in war
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me."
Covenants » Designed for » Selling land
Ephron answered Abraham "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead." Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
Covenants » Designed for » Promoting commerce
Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians." As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people." And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber. read more.
My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household." So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household." So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
Covenants » Designed for » Establishing peace
And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them. At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.
Covenants » Designed for » Establishing friendship
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
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Marriage » Designed for » Increasing the species
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
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Marriage » Designed for » Preventing fornication
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
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Marriage » Designed for » Raising up Godly seed
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
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Marriage » Designed for » The happiness of man
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
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Rain » Designed for » Refreshing the earth
May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!
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Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished;
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Rain » Designed for » Replenishing the springs and fountains of the earth
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
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Rain » Designed for » Making fruitful the earth
For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Admonishing
Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
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Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Supporting life
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
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But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
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The scriptures » Designed for » Sanctifying
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Quickening
This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
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I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Cleansing the heart
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Rejoicing the heart
the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
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Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing hope
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
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Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Comforting
My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?"
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For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Regenerating
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing obedience
And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
The scriptures » Designed for » Illuminating
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Promoting growth in grace
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--
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The scriptures » Designed for » Cleansing the ways
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Keeping from destructive paths
With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Building up in the faith
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Making wise the simple
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
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The scriptures » Designed for » Converting the soul
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing faith
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
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