3 occurrences

'Restraining' in the Bible

Then he washed his face and came out, and, restraining himself, said, “Let the meal be served.”

Verse ConceptsClean Faces

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the Lord;I am tired of restraining it.“[I will] pour it out on the children in the streetAnd on the young men gathered together;For both the husband and wife shall be taken,The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

Verse ConceptsYoung People SufferingJudgement On Old PeopleGod Has AngerTired In Activitywrathtiredventing

And you know what restrains him now [from being revealed]; it is so that he will be revealed at his own [appointed] time.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownHindrances

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