Thematic Bible: Is exercised in
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Providing for his creatures
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither reap, nor yet carry into the barns, and yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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which giveth fodder unto the cattle, and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.
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Which giveth food unto all flesh! For his mercy endureth forever.
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These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them meat in due season.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Overruling wicked designs for good
Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive.
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I would ye understood, brethren, that my business is happened unto the greater furthering of the gospel.
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And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life. For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the ways of men
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.
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The LORD ordereth every man's goings; for what is he, that understandeth his own way?
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A man deviseth a way in his heart; but it is the LORD that ordereth his goings.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ruling the elements
In it was life; And the life was the light of men;
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For why would no man receive me, when I came? And when I called, no man gave me answer. Was my hand clean smitten off, that it might not help? Or had I not power to deliver? Lo, at a word I drink up the sea, and of water floods I make dry land: so that for want of water, the fish corrupt and die of thirst.
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John bare witness of him and cried, saying, "This was he of whom I spake, which though he came after me, went before me: for he was before me."
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Out of the south cometh the tempest, and cold out of the north. At the breath of God, the frost cometh, and the waters are shed abroad. The clouds do their labour in getting moistness, the clouds pour down the rain. read more.
He distributeth also on every side, according as it pleaseth him to deal out his works, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them through the whole world: whether it be to punish any land, or to do good unto them, that seek him.
He distributeth also on every side, according as it pleaseth him to deal out his works, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them through the whole world: whether it be to punish any land, or to do good unto them, that seek him.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Directing all events
And the kine took the straight way to Bethshemesh, both one way, and as they went, lowed, turning neither to the righthand nor to the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them until they came to the borders of Bethshemesh.
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Tomorrow morning ye shall come by your tribes. And the tribe which the LORD shall find guilty, shall come by kindreds. And the kindred which the LORD shall find guilty, shall come by households. And the household which the LORD shall find faulty, shall come man by man.
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Now therefore make a new cart and take two milk kine, on whose neck never came yoke. And tie the kine in the cart, and bring the calves home from them. Then take the ark of the LORD and put it in the cart, and put the Jewels of gold - which ye reward him with for a trespass offering - in a forcer by the side thereof and send it away and let it go. And mark if he go up by the way that leadeth unto his own coast, to Bethshemesh, then it is he that did us this great evil. But and if he do not, then it is not his hand that smote us, but it was a chance that happened us." read more.
And the men did even so: they took two kine that gave milk and tied them in the cart, and kept the calves at home,
And the men did even so: they took two kine that gave milk and tied them in the cart, and kept the calves at home,
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Bringing his words to pass
For the LORD said unto them, that they should die in the wilderness and that there should not be left a man of them: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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There escaped nothing of all the good things which the LORD had said unto the house of Israel. But all came to pass.
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Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » The special preservation of saints
For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.
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And now are all the hairs of your heads numbered.
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For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving his creatures
LORD, thou alone hast made heaven, and the heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the sea and all that is therein: thou givest life unto all, and the host of heaven bow themselves unto thee.
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Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.
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Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And none of them doth light on the ground, without your father.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day and night cease, as long as the earth endureth."
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Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time. Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills. But at thy rebuke they flee, at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. read more.
Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath - in their place which thou hast appointed for them. Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath - in their place which thou hast appointed for them. Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
He hath compassed the waters with certain bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Determining the period of human life
and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.
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My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
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Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Defeating wicked designs
The enemy said, 'I will follow and overtake them, and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.' Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among gods? Who is like thee, so glorious in holiness, fearful, laudable and that showest wonders? read more.
Thou stretchedest out thy right hand, and in the earth swallowed them. And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation! The nations heard, and were afraid. Pangs came upon the Philistines. Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint-hearted. Let fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through, O LORD; while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten. Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place, LORD, which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have prepared. The LORD reign ever and always!" For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land through the midst of the sea.
Thou stretchedest out thy right hand, and in the earth swallowed them. And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation! The nations heard, and were afraid. Pangs came upon the Philistines. Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint-hearted. Let fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through, O LORD; while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten. Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place, LORD, which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have prepared. The LORD reign ever and always!" For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land through the midst of the sea.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said that the counsel of Hushai the Archite was better than the counsel of Ahithophel - For it was even the LORD's determination to destroy the counsel of Ahithophel, which was good, that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. Then said Hushai unto Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Of this and that manner did Ahithophel and the elders of Israel counsel Absalom. And thus and thus have I counseled.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Leading saints
and which led thee in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where was no water, which brought the water out of the rock of flint:
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And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Prospering saints
And I bowed myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
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And he said unto them, "Hinder me not: for the LORD hath prospered my journey. Send me away that I may go unto my master."
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Delivering saints
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.
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Like as birds flutter about their nests, so shall the LORD of Hosts keep, save, defend and deliver Jerusalem.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Protecting saints
He shall defend thee under his wings, that thou mayest be safe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
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O LORD. O LORD God, thou strength of my health; thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
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The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordering the minutest matters
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And none of them doth light on the ground, without your father. And now are all the hairs of your heads numbered.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Ordaining the conditions and circumstances of men
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.