Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
God » Voice of select readings » Waiting upon
But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Do not say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.
I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Judges » Keeping judgment
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Thus says the LORD, "Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Mercy » Man commanded to exercise
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Verse Concepts
The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Mercy » Encouraged
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?" He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master." He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Mercy » Keeping mercy
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Perseverance » To be manifested in » Waiting upon God
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Turning » Turning to the lord
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning." Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us examine and search our ways, and return to the LORD.
"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the LORD.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." He leaped up and walked. read more.
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men." They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker. The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the crowds. But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the crowd, crying out, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men." They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker. The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the crowds. But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the crowd, crying out, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
Waiting » Exhortations and encouragements to
Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Waiting » Continually
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Waiting upon God » Exhortations and encouragements to
Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Waiting upon God » Should be » Continually
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.