Thematic Bible: Designed for
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Covenants » Designed for » Mutual protection
They answered: Now we know that Jehovah is with you. We think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise
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If you mistreat my daughters or marry other women behind my back, remember that God stands as a witness between you and me. Laban also said to Jacob: Here is the pile of stones. Here is the marker that I have set up between you and me. This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me.
Covenants » Designed for » Procuring assistance in war
Then Asa took all the silver and gold still stored in Jehovah's Temple, and in the king's house, and delivered them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus. He said: Let there be an agreement between us just as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you an offering of silver and gold. End your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel that he may give up attacking me.
Covenants » Designed for » Selling land
Ephron answered Abraham: My lord, listen to me. It is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead. Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.
Covenants » Designed for » Promoting commerce
Send your men to Lebanon to cut down cedars for me. My men will work with them. I will pay your men whatever you decide. You may already know, my men do not know how to cut down trees as well as yours do. Hiram was extremely pleased when he received Solomon's message. He said: Praise Jehovah today for giving David such a wise son to succeed him as king of the great nation of Israel! Then Hiram sent Solomon the following message: I received your message. I am ready to do what you ask. I will provide the cedars and the pine trees. read more.
My men will bring the logs from Lebanon to the sea and will tie them together in rafts to float them down the coast to the place you choose. My men will untie them. There your men will take charge of them. On your part, I would like you to supply the food for my men. So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar and pine logs he wanted. Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.
My men will bring the logs from Lebanon to the sea and will tie them together in rafts to float them down the coast to the place you choose. My men will untie them. There your men will take charge of them. On your part, I would like you to supply the food for my men. So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar and pine logs he wanted. Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred thousand bushels of wheat and one hundred and ten thousand gallons of pure olive oil every year to feed his men.
Covenants » Designed for » Establishing peace
Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live. The leaders of the congregation ratified it by an oath. At the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
Covenants » Designed for » Establishing friendship
Jonathan made a covenant with David. He loved him as himself.
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Marriage » Designed for » Increasing the species
God blessed Noah and his sons. He said: Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
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God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
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Marriage » Designed for » Preventing fornication
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Marriage » Designed for » Raising up Godly seed
Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
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Marriage » Designed for » The happiness of man
Jehovah God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
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Rain » Designed for » Refreshing the earth
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.
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You, O God, did send a plentiful rain. You confirm your inheritance with it, when it was parched.
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Rain » Designed for » Replenishing the springs and fountains of the earth
The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.
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Rain » Designed for » Making fruitful the earth
The earth that drinks in the rain that comes upon it, and brings forth vegetation for those by whom it was cultivated, receives blessing from God.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Admonishing
They warn your servant. There is a great reward in following them.
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These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Supporting life
He humbled you (allowed you to suffer) with hunger and then fed you with manna. Neither you nor your fathers had seen this before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but must live on all (everything) (every word) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.
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In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
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The scriptures » Designed for » Sanctifying
This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.
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Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Quickening
This is my comfort in my affliction: That your word has revived me.
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I will never forget your precepts. By them you have revived me.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Cleansing the heart
This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.
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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 statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine.
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I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing hope
The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.
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Remember the word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Comforting
My eyes fail with longing for your word, while I say: When will you comfort me?
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The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Regenerating
Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing obedience
He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes. He must not think he is better than the rest of his people. He will not disobey these commandments in any way. So he and his sons will rule for a long time in Israel.
The scriptures » Designed for » Illuminating
The unfolding of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Promoting growth in grace
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Cleansing the ways
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Keeping from destructive paths
I have avoided cruelty because of your word regardless of what others have done.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Building up in the faith
Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Making wise the simple
The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Converting the soul
The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.
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The scriptures » Designed for » Producing faith
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.
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