420 Bible Verses about people

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Isaiah 52:6

For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.

Psalm 95:7

For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

Isaiah 57:14

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

Job 32:9

It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

Jeremiah 11:14

And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

Jeremiah 16:20

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

Acts 22:15

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

Jeremiah 5:14

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

Psalm 85:8

I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

Zephaniah 3:9

For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.

Isaiah 55:4

See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

James 2:9

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

Luke 14:16

And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

Psalm 81:13

If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

Ezekiel 3:19

But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.

James 2:3

And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;

Topics on People

A Solitary People

Numbers 23:9

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

A Tenth Of People

Judges 20:10

And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

A Thousand People

Joshua 23:10

One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.

According To People

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

Adding People

Genesis 30:24

And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

Advice On Beating People

Proverbs 17:26

To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

All People

Exodus 10:9

And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.

Angry People

Genesis 4:5-6

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

Animals Eating People

Genesis 37:20

Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

Anointed By People

Leviticus 14:17

And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing;

Asceticism, People Practicing

Numbers 6:1-8

And the Lord said to Moses,

Aspects Of People Made Known

Psalm 139:15

My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

Attitudes, to other people

John 13:34-35

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

Authority Delegated To People

Genesis 39:4

And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.

Bad People

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

Beating People

Exodus 21:18

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

Becoming Like People

1 Corinthians 9:20

And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

Before People Act

Proverbs 1:22

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Black People

Job 30:30

My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

Blemished People

Leviticus 21:21

No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.

Burial Of Unnamed People

1 Kings 13:22

But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

Burning People

2 Samuel 23:7

But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.

Causing People To Turn

1 Kings 11:2

The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

Choosing People

2 Samuel 16:18

And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.

Christ Going With People

Matthew 17:1

And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and makes them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves.

Contact With People

Genesis 27:21

And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not.

Corpses Of Other People

Genesis 23:3

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

Crowns For God's People

Isaiah 28:5

In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;

Dealing With Many People

Genesis 50:9

And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.

Dealing With Young People

Judges 18:21

So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

Defeat Of God's People

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

Disorder Among People

Matthew 26:5

But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

Easy For People

Numbers 14:9

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

Eight People

Genesis 22:23

Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Empty People

Ruth 1:21

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

Equivalent People

Genesis 44:18

Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

Escaping From People

Deuteronomy 23:15

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

Fat Of People

Job 15:27

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

Fat People

Judges 3:17

And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.

Fearing Other People

Genesis 20:8

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.

Finding People

Genesis 16:7

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Five People

Luke 12:52

For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.

Foolish People

1 Kings 3:7

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

For The Sake Of God's People

Genesis 26:24

That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

Foreigners Included Among The People

Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

Four People

2 Samuel 21:22

These four were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; and they came to their end by the hands of David and his servants.

Gathered To One's People

Psalm 49:19

He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

God Beating People

1 Kings 14:15

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

God Can Harm People

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

God Hardening People

Romans 9:18

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

God Hating People

Leviticus 20:23

And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

God Killed The Peoples

Zephaniah 3:6

I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

God Killing All People

Genesis 6:7

And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

God Knowing His People

Exodus 33:12

And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.

God Might Kill His People

Exodus 16:3

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

God Remembering His People

Genesis 8:1

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

God Renaming People

Isaiah 62:2

And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.

God Searching For People

Ezekiel 34:11

For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.

God Seeing All People

Psalm 14:2

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

God Strengthening People

1 Samuel 30:6

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

God Stripping People

Hosea 2:3

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

God Will Kill His People

Ezekiel 21:3

And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.

God Will Kill The Peoples

Amos 2:3

And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

God With Specific People

Genesis 21:22

Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

God's Hands On People

Ezekiel 1:3

The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.

God's People Planted

2 Samuel 7:10

And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

God's People Sinning

Exodus 32:22

And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.

Good People

Luke 6:45

The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

Grinding People

Isaiah 3:15

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Guidance, From Godly People

Exodus 32:34

But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin.

Hairy People

Genesis 27:11

And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth:

Handing Over People

Isaiah 24:16

From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Hating Peoples

Genesis 43:32

And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.

Heart, Of Unregenerate People

Hosea 10:2

Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

Hiding From People

Deuteronomy 7:20

And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

How People Eat

Ezekiel 18:6

And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

Imitating Wicked People

2 Kings 17:15

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Importunity, Towards People

Genesis 19:3

But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.

Impossible For People

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

Killing Many People

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

Leaving People Alone

Nahum 3:7

And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

Like Good People

Matthew 12:35

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

Like People In Character

Psalm 106:6

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

Likening People

Matthew 11:16

But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,

Limitations Of Old People

1 Kings 11:4

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

Looking Intently At People

Genesis 24:21

And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.

Lost People

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

Lowering People

Mark 2:4

And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.

Making People Holy

Exodus 31:13

Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

Marks On People

Exodus 13:9

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.

Marriage, Between God And His People

Ezekiel 16:8-14

Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

Meeting People

Genesis 14:17

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.

Memorials For People

Isaiah 56:5

I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

Mixing People

Daniel 2:43

And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth.

Neglecting People

Deuteronomy 14:27

And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

No Water For People

Genesis 21:15

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

Not Believing People

Genesis 45:26

And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

Not Knowing People

Exodus 1:8

Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

Not Like People

Exodus 1:19

And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

Not Recognising People

Genesis 27:23

And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.

Not Seeing People

Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

Obeying People

Ecclesiastes 8:2

I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

Only Child Of People

Genesis 22:2

And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

Other People Of God

Job 33:6

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Other Sad People

Genesis 40:6

And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.

Other Unimportant People

Daniel 4:17

This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

Pay Attention To People!

Exodus 18:19

Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

Paying Attention To People

Jeremiah 26:5

And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;

People Acting Madly

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.

People Actually Doing Evil

Genesis 43:6

And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

People Appalled

Job 18:20

At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

People Are Corruptible

Romans 1:23

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

People Are The Same

Job 34:19

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

People As Rocks

Nehemiah 9:11

By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

People As Signs

Zechariah 3:8

Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.

People Beginning

Job 15:7

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

People Being Hated

Psalm 88:8

You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

People Being Polluted

Genesis 34:5

Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

People Being Silent

Job 29:22

After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

People Being Unclean

2 Corinthians 6:17

For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

People Bound By Oaths

Judges 15:12

Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.

People Carrying Live People

2 Kings 4:19

And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

People Changing Their Minds

Exodus 13:17

Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

People Commended By God

Psalm 22:25

My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.

People Cut In Pieces

Judges 19:29

And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel.

People Destroying Foreign Nations

Isaiah 37:11

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?

People Drying Things Up

2 Kings 3:19

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

People Eating

John 4:31

While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

People Ended

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

People Exiled

Isaiah 5:13

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

People Following People

Exodus 14:17

And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.

People From Far Away

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;

People Getting Up

Genesis 23:3

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

People Giving Clothes

Genesis 24:53

Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.

People Going Astray

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

People Going Before

Matthew 17:10

And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

People Helping Orphans

Deuteronomy 26:12-13

When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full;

People Hiding People

Deuteronomy 13:8

Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

People Hung To Death

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

People Improved

John 4:52

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

People In Caves

Isaiah 2:19

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

People Involved In Judgement

Exodus 18:13

Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

People Jumping

Acts 19:16

And the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them, was stronger than the two of them, and overcame them, so that they went running from that house, wounded and without their clothing.

People Keeping

Genesis 41:35

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

People Lacking Authority

Daniel 4:31

While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:

People Made Known

Genesis 45:1

Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.

People Making Drunk

2 Samuel 11:13

And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

People Mourning Catastrophe

1 Samuel 11:4

So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.

People Naming Things

Genesis 2:19-20

And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

People Not Abandoning

Exodus 10:26

So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place.

People Not Far Away

Genesis 44:4

And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

People not returning

Job 7:10

He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

People Of Judah

Joshua 14:6

Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.

People Ostracised

Isaiah 66:5

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

People Parting

Genesis 13:9

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

People Passing Away

1 Corinthians 2:6

But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

People Polluting Themselves

Ezekiel 14:11

So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.

People Possessing Other Things

Genesis 23:17-18

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

People Possibly Doing Evil

Genesis 16:5

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

People Promising

Matthew 14:7

So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.

People Providing Food

Genesis 42:19

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

People Releasing Others

Genesis 40:14

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

People Renaming People

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

People Rotting

Leviticus 26:39

And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

People Sending Creatures

Genesis 8:7

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

People Sending People

Luke 7:8

For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

People Set Free By People

Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

People Shaking

Luke 9:5

And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.

People Sitting Down

John 6:10

Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

People Stripping Off

1 Samuel 31:9

And cutting off his head and taking away his war-dress, they sent word into the land of the Philistines round about, to take the news to their gods and to the people.

People Stripping People

Exodus 32:25

And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters:

People Stumbling

John 11:10

But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

People Teaching

Psalm 105:22

To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.

People Torn To Pieces

Genesis 37:33

And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.

People Transformed

Jeremiah 13:23

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

People Tumbling

Joshua 6:20

So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.

People Unwashed

Matthew 15:20

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

People Unwilling

John 5:40

And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

People Visiting

Proverbs 25:17

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

People Waiting

Genesis 8:10

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

People Wearing Out

Exodus 18:18

Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

People Who Blessed Others

Genesis 14:19

And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:

People Who Delayed

Genesis 24:55

But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

People Willing

Genesis 24:58

And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.

People With Apt Names

Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

People With General Knowledge

Job 13:1

Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.

People With Knowledge

Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

People Withered

Lamentations 4:8

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

People's Inability To Save

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

People's Inability To Serve God

Joshua 24:19

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

People's Inability To Understand

Daniel 2:27

Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;

Peoples Who Fled

Isaiah 2:19

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

Possibilities For People

Genesis 11:6

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

Possible For People

Genesis 11:6

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

Praising Specific People

Song of Solomon 6:9

My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

Predestined People

Romans 8:29-30

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

Proud People

Exodus 18:11

Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.

Pure People

Proverbs 21:8

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

Recognising People

Mark 6:33

And the people saw them going, and a number of them, having knowledge who they were, went running there together on foot from all the towns, and got there before them.

Reinstating People

Genesis 20:7

So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

Remembering People

Genesis 40:14

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

Removing People From Your Life

Proverbs 25:5

Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

Renewal, Of People Of God

Isaiah 40:30-31

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

Resentment, Against People

Proverbs 3:11-12

My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:

Reward, For God's People

1 Corinthians 3:12-15

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

Rules About Young People

Numbers 30:3

If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

Scattering The Peoples

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

Seeing People

Genesis 37:18

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

Seeking But Not Finding People

Song of Solomon 3:1

By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

Sending people home

Joshua 24:28

Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.

Separation From Evil People

Ezra 6:21

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

Seven People

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

Short People

Leviticus 21:20

Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;

Side Of People

1 Samuel 20:25

And the king took his seat, as at other times, by the wall: and Jonathan was in front, and Abner was seated by Saul's side, but there was no one in David's seat.

Six People

1 Chronicles 3:4

He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

Snares Laid for People

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

Stiffnecked People

Exodus 7:12-13

For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

Stingy People

Proverbs 11:24

A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

Subtracting From People

Judges 21:3

And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?

Taking Other People

Genesis 14:16

And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

Tall People

1 Samuel 9:2

He had a son named Saul, a specially good-looking young man; there was no one better-looking among the children of Israel: he was taller by a head than any other of the people.

Telling Of People's Situations

Genesis 3:11

And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

Telling What People Did

Genesis 24:66

Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.

Telling What People Said

Genesis 27:42

Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.

Ten People

Genesis 18:32

And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

Thanks To People

Acts 24:3

In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.

Things Like People

Judges 9:36

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, See! people are coming down from the tops of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, You see the shade of the mountains like men.

Those Jealous Of People

Genesis 30:1

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

Those Looking For People

Genesis 37:15-16

And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

Those Subjected To People

Psalm 74:8

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

Throwing People

Exodus 15:1

Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.

Times Of People

Isaiah 54:9

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

Tithing For People

Genesis 14:20

And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.

Unmarried People

Matthew 19:9-12

And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

Useful People

2 Peter 1:8

For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Valuation Of People

Leviticus 27:2-8

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

Wealthy People

Exodus 30:15

The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

Welcoming Other People

Luke 16:4

I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.

Where People Live To This Day

Deuteronomy 2:22

As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:

Why Do People Not Do This?

Leviticus 10:17

Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord.

Worthy People

Matthew 10:11

And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.

Writing On People

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Wronging Other People

Leviticus 25:14

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Young People Suffering

Psalm 34:10

The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

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