Thematic Bible: General references to
Thematic Bible
false Accusations » General references to
And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are deserting to the Chaldeans.
Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.
Activity » Evil » General references to
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Activity » Christ's zeal » General references to
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has consumed me.
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
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Adorning » Jewels » General references to
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and necklaces, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of ornaments of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make an atonement for ourselves before the LORD.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
But every woman shall request of her neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing: and you shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
Adultery » General references to
And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
You shall not commit adultery.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not commit adultery:
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her who is put away does commit adultery.
So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband dies, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Afflictions » General references to
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Agriculture » General references to » Called husbandmen
And Noah began to till the soil, and he planted a vineyard:
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities together, farmers, and they that go forth with flocks.
I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus: Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an farmer; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country:
And at the season time he sent to the tenants a servant, that he might receive from the tenants of the fruit of the vineyard.
He shall come and destroy these tenants, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
The farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
Agriculture » General references to
And Noah began to till the soil, and he planted a vineyard:
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them:
He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
Agriculture » General references to » Uzziah
Also he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells: for he had many cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: farmers also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved the soil.
Agriculture » General references to » David
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
Agriculture » General references to » Elisha
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
Agriculture » General references to » Noah
And Noah began to till the soil, and he planted a vineyard:
Agriculture » General references to » Cain
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Agriculture » General references to » The rich man
And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Ahab » General references to
And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the animals.
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus says Ben-hadad,
But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know you that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray you. And the man struck him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.
The Almighty » Power of God » General references to
Both riches and honor come from you, and you reign over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle: but God shall make you fall before the enemy: for God has power to help, and to cast down.
He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the storm.
God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Who by his strength established the mountains; being girded with power:
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
Andrew » General references to
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
And immediately, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
Philip came and told Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James.
Animals » Lions » General references to
And David said unto Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Apollos » General references to
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
Concerning our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.
Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be lacking unto them.
Appearances » Deceitful » General references to
But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and handsome: and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Arts and crafts » General references to
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of flutists, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he may be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;
Asceticism » General references to
And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples fast not?
Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any value to the indulgence of the flesh.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
Astronomy » Moon » General references to
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And with the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and with the precious things put forth by the moon,
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go down about a whole day.
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its going down.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his elders gloriously.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
Atheism » General references to
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
They have lied about the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
Attributes of God » Power of God » General references to
Both riches and honor come from you, and you reign over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle: but God shall make you fall before the enemy: for God has power to help, and to cast down.
He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the storm.
God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Who by his strength established the mountains; being girded with power:
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
Awakenings and religious reforms » Awakenings, religious, » General references to
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Nevertheless some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept bitterly.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
And many that believed came, and confessed, and told of their deeds.
Awakenings and religious reforms » Revivals (select reading, isa chap 35) isa 35 » General references to
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we offer the sacrifices of our lips.
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and streams in the desert.
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
religious Awakenings » General references to
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Nevertheless some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept bitterly.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
And many that believed came, and confessed, and told of their deeds.
Babylon » General references to
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands, and the bronze sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, greets you; and so does Mark my son.
balaam » General references to
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is on the border of Arnon, which is on the farthest boundary.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the leaders of Moab.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over opposite me:
And God said unto Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they are blessed.
And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Who have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Beggars » General references to
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the rubbish, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Birds » General references to
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they are young ones, or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young:
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And these are they which you shall hold in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
And wherever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
Boldness » Boldness, holy » General references to
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him.
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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
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For they that have used the office of a deacon well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
physical Bondage » In prison » General references to
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Bread » General references to
And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.
And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread, and a skin of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort your hearts; after that you shall pass on: for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said.
And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Brotherly love » General references to
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
But concerning brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.
He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
Cain » General references to
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Christ » Denial of » General references to
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto you, That this night, before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard: and a maidservant came unto him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee. But he denied it before them all, saying, I know not what you say.
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Christ » Name, wonderful » General references to
Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Christ » Humility of » General references to
After that he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Christ » Humanity of Christ » General references to
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Christ » Humanity of » General references to
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Christ » Prescience of » General references to
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who would betray him.
For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, You are not all clean.
Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you?
Christ » His foreknowledge » General references to
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who would betray him.
For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, You are not all clean.
Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you?
Church » Security of » General references to
[A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame scorch you.
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and take your rest in safety.
But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.
When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the fortresses of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
Church » Foundation of furnishes perfect security » General references to
Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Church » Enemies of » General references to
[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me.
[Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Church » Head of, Christ the » General references to
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
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And not holding the Head, from whom all the body by joints and ligaments having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.
Church » Compared to a flock » General references to
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Verse Concepts
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the jewels of a crown, lifted up as a banner over his land.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Church » Flock, God's » General references to
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Verse Concepts
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the jewels of a crown, lifted up as a banner over his land.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Circumcision » General references to
And certain men who came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you; Every male child among you shall be circumcised.
And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places: for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Cities » General references to
And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
Nevertheless the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Suppose there be fifty righteous within the city: will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are there?
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not,
Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
And I will pluck up your idol poles out of your midst: so will I destroy your cities.
duties of Citizens » General references to
And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:
I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that for the sake of your oath to God.
However, lest we should offend them, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and you.
They said unto him, Caesar's. Then said he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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ethics, socialethics, basis ofCivil authoritiesDeath penaltyHuman Authority, Nature OfAttitudes, to other peopleAuthority, of human institutionsHuman Authority, Christian ResponseGovernmentCivic DutiesHonouring RulersLeaders, PoliticalLoyaltyPower, HumanOrderliness In SocietySubmissionTaxationGod's Providential Control
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Civic duties » General references to
And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:
I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that for the sake of your oath to God.
However, lest we should offend them, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and you.
They said unto him, Caesar's. Then said he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Verse Concepts
ethics, socialethics, basis ofCivil authoritiesDeath penaltyHuman Authority, Nature OfAttitudes, to other peopleAuthority, of human institutionsHuman Authority, Christian ResponseGovernmentCivic DutiesHonouring RulersLeaders, PoliticalLoyaltyPower, HumanOrderliness In SocietySubmissionTaxationGod's Providential Control
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Civil strife » General references to
And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for God did trouble them with all adversity.
And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in various places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Clothing » General references to
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And Rebekah took the best clothing of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:
Commandments » General references to
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.
Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, wherever you go to possess it;
But he answered and said unto them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
This is the first and great commandment.
Condemnation » General references to
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall under judgment.
Congregation » General references to
And if the whole congregation of Israel sins through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
Bring forth him that has cursed outside the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Then it shall be, if anything is committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet aroma unto the LORD, with its grain offering, and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
He that is a eunuch by crushing or mutilation shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Conscience » General references to
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
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How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience's sake.
But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience about the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience's sake:
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Conversion » General references to » Joyful believers used as instruments in
Restore unto me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with a free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you.
Conversion » General references to » The supreme task of the church
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Conversion » General references to » Essential to entrance into God's kingdom
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Conversion » General references to » Prepares for Christian service
But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.
Conversion » General references to » The divine law the agent in
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Verse Concepts
Conversion » General references to » Encouraged upon all men
Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Courtesy » General references to
Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one with another, love as brethren, be tender hearted, be courteous:
Verse Concepts
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
And the next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius courteously treated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
In the same place were lands of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
Cruelty » General references to
Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Cursing » General references to
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for the cursing and lying which they speak.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.
With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God.
Daniel » General references to
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood from the books the number of the years, of which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.
Days » of the Lord » General references to
To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
The Dead » Mourning for » General references to
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the coffin.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days.
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
The Dead » Preparation of, for burial » General references to
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
The Dead » General references to
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Deborah » General references to
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand: is not the LORD gone out before you? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Denial of Christ » General references to
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto you, That this night, before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard: and a maidservant came unto him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee. But he denied it before them all, saying, I know not what you say.
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Deserts » General references to
And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and would have kept him, that he should not depart from them.
And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » General references to
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you.
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
Desires » General references to
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Teacher, we would that you should do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Desolation of the wicked » General references to
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Despair » General references to
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses because of anguish of spirit, and of cruel bondage.
So that you shall be driven mad by the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off on our part.
And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Discretion » General references to
For his God does instruct him aright, and does teach him.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Since God has showed you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are:
Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said unto him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that dared ask him any question.
spiritual Disease » General references to
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
For her wound is incurable; for it has come unto Judah; it has come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
When Jesus heard it, he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
new Dispensation » General references to
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near unto God.
But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Display » General references to
And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armory, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at feasts;
And the next day, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
Divine Requirements » General references to
Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Verse Concepts
These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
And he said unto him, Why do you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.
Dreams » General references to
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.
Dress » Clothing » General references to
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And Rebekah took the best clothing of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:
Duties » Of citizens » General references to
And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
My son, fear the LORD and the king: and associate not with them that are given to change:
I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that for the sake of your oath to God.
However, lest we should offend them, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and you.
They said unto him, Caesar's. Then said he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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ethics, socialethics, basis ofCivil authoritiesDeath penaltyHuman Authority, Nature OfAttitudes, to other peopleAuthority, of human institutionsHuman Authority, Christian ResponseGovernmentCivic DutiesHonouring RulersLeaders, PoliticalLoyaltyPower, HumanOrderliness In SocietySubmissionTaxationGod's Providential Control
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Earthly » Of priests honour » General references to
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
For I will promote you unto very great honor, and I will do whatsoever you say unto me: come therefore, I pray you, curse for me this people.
Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
And Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of costly articles;
Effeminacy » General references to
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.
The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
Behold, your troops in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
Encouragement » General references to
And, behold, they brought to him a man sick, a paralytic, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the paralytic; Son, be of good cheer; your sins be forgiven you.
And he said unto them, Be not amazed: you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see them again no more forever.
And he set the priests in their duties, and encouraged them for the service of the house of the LORD,
For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
But immediately Jesus spoke unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Enoch » General references to
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,
Who was the son of Mathuselah, who was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Jared, who was the son of Mahalalel, who was the son of Cainan,
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Esau » General references to
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Estrangement » From God » General references to
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
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Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
That I may seize the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
And the Levites who have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
These people draw near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Evil » Women evil women » General references to
The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
Then said his wife unto him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse God, and die.
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs.
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image on an idol pole: and Asa cut down her idol, and crushed it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak you unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Evil » Devices » General references to
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Evil » Speech evil speaking » General references to
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Evil » Way » General references to
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Enter in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be who go in there:
Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
Evil » Activity » General references to
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Evil » Slander » General references to
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Experience (knowledge experimental) » General references to
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Fasting » General references to
And Jesus said unto them, Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Why have we fasted, they say, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer a burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you at all fast unto me, even to me?
Feasts » General references to
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
And Levi made himself a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors and of others that sat down with them.
And when an opportune day was come, Herod on his birthday made a supper for his lords, high captains, and chief men of Galilee;
And he prepared a great feast for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
And when these days were completed, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the citadel, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
And he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the steward of the feast. And they bore it.
Fervour » Christ's zeal » General references to
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has consumed me.
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
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Fetters » General references to
Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and carried him to Babylon.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
Because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been wrenched apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man subdue him.
Fish » General references to
These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall you eat.
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and you shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fish.
And God created great sea creatures, and every living thing that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
God's Flock » General references to
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Verse Concepts
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the jewels of a crown, lifted up as a banner over his land.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Folly » Of men » General references to
Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a foul odor: so does a little folly to him that is respected for wisdom and honor.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Spiritual food » General references to
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except him who receives it.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
And on this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of rich things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a rich pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
And did all eat the same spiritual food; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Forsaking God » General references to
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary of relenting.
Who have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, {} Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
And I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shall you answer them, Like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Spiritual foundation » General references to
Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Friendship » General references to » Examples of true
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was always a lover of David.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant have you been unto me: your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains:
Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David regained control.
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.
Friendship » General references to » Among believers
And it came to pass, that, while they discussed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
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Fellowship, Among BelieversEdification, Means OfFriendship Among BelieversMaintaining FaithPeople Encouraging OthersEncouragementPeace And ComfortFaith And TrustSharingFriendship And LoveHope And FaithEncouraging One AnotherHaving FaithEncouraging OthersFriendship And TrustSupportTrust In Relationships
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Verse Concepts
Friendship » General references to » Divine (of God)
Are not you our God, who did drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?
And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even clearly, and not in dark sayings; and the form of the LORD shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
Friendship » General references to » Christ's
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Friendship » General references to » Mary magdalene and other women
And many women were there beholding afar off, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
At the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
Friendship » General references to » Jonathan
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will your servant be.
Friendship » General references to » Profitable
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.
Friendship » General references to » Examples of constancy
Friendship » General references to » The desire for many friends, perilous
A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
Friendship » General references to » Old friends to be cherished
Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
Friendship » General references to » True, is unchangeable
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Bad FriendsGood FriendsBest friendBad CounselAppreciationBad InfluenceAdversityBeing In LoveBeing A FriendIntimacyLoyaltyLove, For One AnotherFriendshipRelationshipsBrotherly LoveChoosing FriendsLove Between RelativesA Mans CharacterA Time For LoveCommunication In MarriageHard TimesFriends
Best FriendsFamily LoveSiblingsFriendship And LoveLove And FamilyFamily And FriendsRelationship TroublesStress And Hard TimesFamily ProblemsOvercoming Hard TimesFriendship KjvStaying Strong During Hard TimesFamily ConflictHardshipGetting Through Hard TimesFake FriendsBrothers LoveTrue FriendsSibling Loveproblemsoverworking
Friendship » General references to » Stimulating
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Friendship » General references to » Onesiphorus
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains:
Friendship » General references to » Christ's pre-eminent
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
Friendship » General references to » Priscilla and aquila
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Friendship » General references to » Elisha
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Beth-el.
Friendship » General references to » Thomas
Then said Thomas, who is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Friendship » General references to » Christ
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
natural Fruit » General references to
And at the season time he sent to the tenants a servant, that he might receive from the tenants of the fruit of the vineyard.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on you again forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth vegetation, the plants yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » Without defect
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » Many varieties of
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » Produced in all periods of life
Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be healthy and flourishing;
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » Perennial
And by the river upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall its fruit be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to its months, because the waters flowed out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » Grown only upon good ground
But others fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Fruit, spiritual » General references to » The product of heavenly wisdom
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Gentleness » General references to
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.
gideon » General references to
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
And Gideon said unto God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also: for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.
And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
God » Judgments of » General references to
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Verse Concepts
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
And I will enter into judgment against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
God » Fatherhood of » General references to
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledges us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.
But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
God » Works of » General references to
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
God » Wisdom of » General references to
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
[Beth] How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do you not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
God » God's Judgments » Drought » General references to » Examples of
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one part was rained upon, and the part upon which it rained not withered.
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
God » Providence of » General references to
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
Who provides for the raven its food? when its young ones cry unto God, they wander about for lack of food.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
He will not allow your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
God's Judgments » General references to
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Verse Concepts
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
And I will enter into judgment against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
God's Judgments » Plagues » General references to
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.
Then the LORD will make your plagues abundant, and the plagues of your descendants, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, of long continuance.
And if you walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Gospel » General references to
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Verse Concepts
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Only let your manner of life be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Verse Concepts
If others be partakers of this right over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this right; but endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
greed » General references to
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.
Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
Yea, they are greedy dogs who can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his own quarter.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.
Happiness » General references to
Happy is the man that is reverent always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into calamity.
Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whosoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retains her.
If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
Harlots » General references to
You shall not bring the wages of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both of these are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
A widow, or a divorced woman, or defiled, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
Heathen » General references to
And the children of Israel, who had come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.
And walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Heavenly » Father » General references to
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledges us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.
But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Heredity » General references to
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the descendants of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
We lie down in our shame, and our disgrace covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
hezekiah » General references to
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, } Thus says the LORD, { Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring them forth.
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
Holiness » General references to
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
Verse Concepts
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The Call Of GodHeaven, Worshiping GodNames And Titles For The ChristianSpiritual Blindness, Removal OfCalling, Of ChristiansOld Testament People As TypesFrom Darkness To LightComing Out Of DarknessFew PriestsA Holy NationA Kingdom Of PriestsRoyal PriesthoodShowing Forth His PraiseElectLightUnconditional LoveRaceExcellenceroyaltypriestsLight As A Symbol Of Salvation
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for others: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Holy » General references to » Ambition
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.
Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Home » General references to
But Jesus permitted him not, but said unto him, Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you.
When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verse Concepts
Acceptance, From GodFaithfulness, In Human Relationshipsethics, personaldiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleGrandchildrenGrandparentsHomeLove, And The WorldParentsPleasing GodPoverty, Remedies ForReligionRightsSanctity Of LifeYouthChildren, attitudes towardsWidows, Should BeChildren, Duties OfCaring For Children
Caring For ParentsLove Between RelativesHonouring ParentsPeople ProvidingChildren, responsibilities to GodFamiliesparentingRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesResponsibilityFamily FirstMotherhoodParenting ResponsibilitiesRespecting ParentsGrandmothersLeaving Parents For SpouseFathers Responsibilitiesparenthoodpiety
Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why then call you me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
Home » Home Religion » Maternal and paternal love » General references to
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Humility of Christ » General references to
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Humility » Of Christ » General references to
After that he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Hunger » Select readings ps 42; 84 » General references to
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you.
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
Hypocrisy » General references to
In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so much that they tread one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
When he speaks graciously, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
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Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.
Has a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
For though there be those called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
Immortality » General references to
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keeps my saying, he shall never see death.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Impurity » General references to
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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AdulterersAdultery and DivorceFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsAdultery, Consequences OfAdultery, Results OfBeing A HusbandImmorality, Nature Of SexualLaw, Ten CommandmentsLove, In RelationshipsSex Within MarriageMotives, Importance OfPurity, Moral And SpiritualSeductionSexualitySexual Sin, Nature OfSleep, PhysicalMarriageBedsSexual ChastityDesign Of MarriageImpurityCohabitationSexual Relationships
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But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Verse Concepts
GluttonyLicentiousnessCovetingFornicationAdultery, SpiritualBodily LimbsBaptism, significance ofdesiresThe Sin NatureGreed, Believers' Response ToLustLove, In RelationshipsSexual AberrationsSelf DenialMisersMortificationOpposition, To Sin And EvilPurity, Moral And SpiritualSelf DisciplineSelf IndulgenceSexualitySin, Avoidance OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InLasciviousness
Sexual ChastityCovetousness, Nature ofIdolatry Consists OfAppetite, SexualImpuritySexual RelationshipsCrucifying Our FleshEvil PassionsDeath To SelfAffection, EvilDead To SinEvil DesiresIdolatryAvoid ImmoralityNature Of IdolatryCovetousnessAffectionsexGreedMoviesSexual ImmoralityPassionBeing GaySexual Purity
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Inheritance » Earthly » General references to
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the leaders, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: redeem you my right to yourself; for I cannot redeem it.
So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray you, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Insecurity of the wicked » General references to
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall break it.
And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Israel » Judges of » General references to
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.
If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to slay them.
Judges and officers shall you make in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
If there is a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man:
Jerubbaal » General references to
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
And Gideon said unto God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also: for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.
And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Jerusalem » General references to
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her heart.
And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: who spoke unto David, saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here: thinking, David cannot come in here.
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over opposite Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two donkeys saddled, his concubine also was with him.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in confinement, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Jewels » General references to
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and necklaces, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of ornaments of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make an atonement for ourselves before the LORD.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
But every woman shall request of her neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing: and you shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
Joy » Earthly » General references to
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
And whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my reward of all my labor.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Judges of israel » General references to
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.
If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to slay them.
Judges and officers shall you make in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
If there is a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man:
Judgment » Last, the » General references to
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
But the heavens and the earth, which now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
spiritual Kingdom » General references to
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
Knowledge » Knowledge, experimental » General references to
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
experimental Knowledge » General references to
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to greatness, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Leaders » Garments of prophets » General references to
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.
And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Leaders » Religious priests » General references to
And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their territories.
Life » Eternal » General references to
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.
In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;
And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
Eternal life » General references to
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.
In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;
And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
Light, spiritual » General references to
And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in the darkness, and your darkness be as the noon day:
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will enlighten my darkness.
Lions » General references to
And David said unto Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Living water » Eze 47; re 22 » General references to
Ho, everyone that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » General references to
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Love » Brotherly » General references to
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Hatred stirs up strife: but love covers all sins.
For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Verse Concepts
Freedom, Abuse Of ChristianAdventureCommitment, to God's peopleLove, For One AnotherLove, Nature OfMinistry, In The ChurchSelf IndulgenceService To GodSlavery, SpiritualUnselfishnessCarnalityAbuse, Of Christian FreedomLove To Others Shown InCalling, Of ChristiansCalling, The Goals Of4th of julyBrotherly LoveAnarchyAgape LoveLiving For The Material
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
But concerning brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.
He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
Man's » Immortality » General references to
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keeps my saying, he shall never see death.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Meekness » General references to » Promises concerning
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Meekness » General references to » A fruit of the Spirit
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Verse Concepts
Attitudes, to other peopleLove, For One AnotherLove, Nature OfHumilityMinistry, In The ChurchTemperUnselfishnessViolenceLove To Others Shown InForbearanceBrotherly LoveAgape LoveThe Gentleness Of God's PeopleBe Humble!Be Patient!GentlenessLove Fellow Christians!Communication In MarriageUnitySuffering
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
Meekness » General references to » Essential in teaching
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.
In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Meekness » General references to » Essential in hearing
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good life his works with meekness of wisdom.
Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Meekness » General references to » To be sought
Seek you the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have kept his commands; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Meekness » General references to » Precious in God's sight
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Meekness » General references to » Non-resistance a mark of
And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and he that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.
Mephibosheth » General references to
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that belonged unto Mephibosheth are yours. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.
And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold your servant!
Meteorology » Whirlwind » General references to
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire engulfing itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of its midst as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Mocking » General references to
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,
Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Mourning » General references to
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the coffin.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days.
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Music » Musicians » General references to
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight; and other of the Levites, all that were skillful with instruments of music.
Let our lord now command your servants, which are before you, to seek out a man, who is a skillful player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were skillful, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
Musicians » General references to
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight; and other of the Levites, all that were skillful with instruments of music.
Let our lord now command your servants, which are before you, to seek out a man, who is a skillful player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were skillful, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
Nearness to God » General references to
The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
That they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.
Verse Concepts
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
the Needy » General references to
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide unto your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.
Old age » General references to » Devoid of pleasure
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;
Old age » General references to » Of the righteous, honourable
White hair is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.
Old age » General references to » Promised to abraham
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Old age » General references to » Rules of conduct for
That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Old age » General references to » Divine presence in
And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Old age » General references to » Prayer concerning
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
Ornaments » Jewels » General references to
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and necklaces, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of ornaments of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make an atonement for ourselves before the LORD.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
But every woman shall request of her neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing: and you shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
Ostentation » In dress » General references to
And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armory, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at feasts;
And the next day, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the descendants of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
We lie down in our shame, and our disgrace covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Parsimony » General references to
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
He that gives unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
Whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
You have not brought me the sheep of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat to eat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
There is one that scatters, and yet increases; and there is one that withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
Passover » General references to
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; the next day after the passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were purified, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the passover?
Pathway of sin » General references to
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Enter in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be who go in there:
Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
God's People » General references to » Called the "chosen ones"
But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Verse Concepts
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?
Who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
God's People » General references to » Spoken of as the elect
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
God's People » General references to » Exalted above all nations
And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people unto the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.
God's People » General references to » The law written upon their hearts
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
God's People » General references to » Guided like a flock
Know you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
God's People » General references to » Prepared for service
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
God's People » General references to » Chosen by jehovah
For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
God's People » General references to » A peculiar treasure
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
God's People » General references to » Characterized by zeal
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works.
Verse Concepts
Persecution » General references to
[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me.
[Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Plans of men » Devices, evil » General references to
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Plotting » General references to
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.
The poor » General references to
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide unto your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always.
Poverty » General references to
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:
Power » Power power of God » General references to
Both riches and honor come from you, and you reign over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle: but God shall make you fall before the enemy: for God has power to help, and to cast down.
He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the storm.
God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Who by his strength established the mountains; being girded with power:
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
Prayer » General references to » Universal need of
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
O you that hears prayer, unto you shall all flesh come.
Prayer » General references to » Ascends as incense before God
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Prayer » General references to » Prayers of the saints precious
And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of saints.
Prayer » General references to » The holy spirit aids in
Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Prayer » General references to » First mentioned
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Precious stones » General references to
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the bronze for things of bronze, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistening stones, and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all citron wood, and all manner of vessels of ivory, and all manner of vessels of most precious wood, and of bronze, and iron, and marble,
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her heart.
And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also a great amount of spoil out of the city.
Having the glory of God: and its radiance was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
But in their place he shall honor the god of fortresses: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
A bribe is as a magic stone in the eyes of him that gives it: wherever he turns, he prospers.
Prisons » General references to
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Prodigality » General references to
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
But as soon as this your son came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.
Profanity » Blasphemy » General references to
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his clothes, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Prophets » General references to
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.
And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
The Proud » General references to
For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting over questions and disputes of words, out of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions,
But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.
The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.
divine Providence » Mysteries of providing » General references to
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
Who provides for the raven its food? when its young ones cry unto God, they wander about for lack of food.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
He will not allow your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Quietness » General references to
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.
When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Rebekah » General references to
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddanaram, the sister to Laban the Aramean.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak unto Esau your brother, saying,
Spiritual receptivity » General references to
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
But he that received seed in the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; who also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.
Religion » Hypocrisy, an ever present element in false religion » General references to
In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so much that they tread one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
When he speaks graciously, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Religious » Garments of prophets » General references to
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.
And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Religious » General references to
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Nevertheless some from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept bitterly.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
And many that believed came, and confessed, and told of their deeds.
Religious » priests » General references to
And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their territories.
divine Remembrance » General references to
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;
And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:
He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Returning to God » General references to
For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
And so return unto you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto you toward their land, which you gave unto their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
And the LORD shall strike Egypt: he shall strike and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated by them, and shall heal them.
For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.
O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your iniquity.
Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return?
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we offer the sacrifices of our lips.
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and streams in the desert.
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Riches, spiritual » General references to » Examples of
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
Riches, spiritual » General references to » Discovered by spiritual vision
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Riches, spiritual » General references to » God's blessing the source of
Riches, spiritual » General references to » More precious than earthly
Esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked for the recompense of the reward.
Riches, spiritual » General references to » Unsearchable
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Riches, spiritual » General references to » A paradox
There is one that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is one that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.
Riches, spiritual » General references to » Enduring
Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Riches, spiritual » General references to » The inheritance of God's elect
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?
Ridicule » General references to
The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you open your mouth wide, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,
Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Sabbath » General references to
For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which you will bake today, and boil that which you will boil; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain field; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.
This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Salt » General references to
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, by a statute forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD unto you and to your descendants with you.
And every offering of your grain offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the requirement of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Security » Of the saints » General references to
[A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame scorch you.
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and take your rest in safety.
But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.
When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the fortresses of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
Shame » General references to
He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the recompense of fools.
When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Shechem » General references to
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Christ Shepherd » General references to » As guardian of the flock
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Crowing the faithful
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Risen
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Welcoming the wanderers
For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Providing
[A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not lack. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Tender
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Verse Concepts
Christ Shepherd » General references to » Sacrificial
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
Silence » Value of » General references to
He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace.
In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.
Silver » General references to
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of bronze four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands of silver.
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
Every one that did offer an offering of silver and bronze brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver.
Simplicity » General references to
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For your obedience is well known unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and innocent concerning evil.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
[A song of ascents. Of David.] LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Slander » General references to
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.
Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Snares laid » General references to
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. In the way in which I walked have they secretly laid a snare for me.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.
Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is for you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Snow » General references to
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
For he says to the snow, Be on the earth; likewise to the gentle rain, and to the heavy rain of his strength.
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like heroes of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in a time of snow:
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Have you entered into the treasury of the snow? or have you seen the treasury of the hail,
Social duties » Temperance pr 23; isa 5; 28; da 1 » General references to
He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.
And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient time, I will call for you.
And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;
That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
Social life » Social functions » General references to
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
And Levi made himself a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors and of others that sat down with them.
And when an opportune day was come, Herod on his birthday made a supper for his lords, high captains, and chief men of Galilee;
And he prepared a great feast for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
And when these days were completed, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the citadel, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
And he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the steward of the feast. And they bore it.
Sorrow » General references to
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is grief.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Speaking, evil » General references to
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Spiritual » Foundation » General references to
Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;
For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Verse Concepts
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As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Spiritual » Temple » General references to
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?
You also, as living stones, are built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord: In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Spiritual » Kingdom » General references to
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from here.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
Spiritual » Light » General references to
And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in the darkness, and your darkness be as the noon day:
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will enlighten my darkness.
Spiritual » Receptivity » General references to
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
But he that received seed in the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; who also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Without defect
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Many varieties of
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Produced in all periods of life
Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be healthy and flourishing;
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Perennial
And by the river upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall its fruit be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to its months, because the waters flowed out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Grown only upon good ground
But others fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » The product of heavenly wisdom
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Statutes » General references to
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
And said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals you.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between himself and the children of Israel on mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » General references to
[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me.
[Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Martyrdom » General references to
Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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enemies, of believersBetrayalBetrayal, To The ChristianMartyrdom, Qualities OfParentsPersecution, Nature OfUnfaithfulness, To PeopleFamilyMartyrdom Of The SaintsHatred Between RelativesDisobedient To ParentsHanding Over PeoplePeople OpposedFathers And SonsDeath Of A Family MemberFamily LoveMothers Love For Her Children
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » General references to
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?
And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answer you the high priest so?
The sun » General references to
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.
Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes.
And has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them who journeyed with me.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Superiority of the new dispensation » General references to
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near unto God.
But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
or shechem Sychar » General references to
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Synagogues » General references to
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say:
And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.
These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Taxes » General references to
Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
And king Ahasuerus imposed tribute upon the land, and upon the coastlands of the sea.
Temperance » Pr 23; isa 5; 28; da 1 » General references to
He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.
And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient time, I will call for you.
And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;
That the aged men be sensible, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
Temperance » Drunkards examples of » General references to
As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:
Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Temple » General references to
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,
[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.
spiritual Temple » General references to
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?
You also, as living stones, are built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone; In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord: In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
religious Testimony » General references to
You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks through you.
In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness.
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
And it shall turn out to you for a testimony.
The bible » Statutes contained in » General references to
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
And said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals you.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between himself and the children of Israel on mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
The bible » Commandments contained in » General references to
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome.
Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, wherever you go to possess it;
But he answered and said unto them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
This is the first and great commandment.
the future » The last judgment » General references to
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may be recompensed for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
But the heavens and the earth, which now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » General references to
Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
And king Ahasuerus imposed tribute upon the land, and upon the coastlands of the sea.
Trials » General references to
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Tribute » General references to
Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
And king Ahasuerus imposed tribute upon the land, and upon the coastlands of the sea.
false Trusts » General references to
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Why boast yourself in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come against me?
For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
He that trusts in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whosoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Unfruitfulness » General references to
And he dug it, and gathered out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Virtues » Honesty » Integrity » General references to
The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
War » General references to
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Water » Living eze 47; re 22 » General references to
Ho, everyone that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
water of Life » Eze 47; re 22 » General references to
Ho, everyone that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Whirlwind » General references to
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire engulfing itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of its midst as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
The wicked » Devices of » General references to
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things: moving his lips he brings evil to pass.
The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Women » Jezebel » General references to
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and adorned her head, and looked out at a window.
And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?
Therefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the territory of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
Women » Harlots » General references to
You shall not bring the wages of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both of these are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
A widow, or a divorced woman, or defiled, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot; lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
Women » Deborah » General references to
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand: is not the LORD gone out before you? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Wonderful » Works of God » General references to
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
Word » Fulfilment of » General references to
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
[Aleph] Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
[Beth] How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do you not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: read more.
And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not, And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dug, which you dug not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full; Then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not, And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dug, which you dug not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full; Then beware lest you forget the LORD, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. read more.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Worship » Temples » General references to
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,
[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.
Worship » Family » General references to » Home, the best place to show piety
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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Worship » Family » General references to » Joshua establishes religion in his home
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Worship » Family » General references to » The philippian jailer and his family are baptized
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
Worship » Family » General references to » Mary sits at jesus' feet in her home
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
Worship » Family » General references to » Lydia and her household converted
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she prevailed upon us.
Worship » Family » General references to » The entire family of the nobleman accept Christ
So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in which Jesus said unto him, Your son lives: and he himself believed, and his whole house.
Worship » Family » General references to » Andrew leads his brother to Christ
He first found his own brother Simon, and said unto him, We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
Worship » Family » General references to » Healing of » Witness for Christ
Return to your own house, and show what great things God has done unto you. And he went his way, and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done unto him.
Worship » Family » General references to » Job sanctifies his children
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were finished, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
false Worship » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.
Has a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
For though there be those called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
true and false Worship » For worship of God house of God, the place of worship » General references to
And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto you: they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things away; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.
Zeal » Christ's » General references to
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has consumed me.
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
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FALSE » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.
Has a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
For though there be those called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
FALSE » Trusts » General references to
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Why boast yourself in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come against me?
For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
He that trusts in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whosoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
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