20 occurrences

'Comparison' in the Bible

I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

Verse ConceptsKindnessHumilityStaffHumility, Examples OfTwo GroupsRiver CrossingsWalking With A StaffGod Showed His Lovingkindness

And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

Verse ConceptsGleaningGrapesMinoritiesVintageRelative Greatness

God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gentile RulersThose God Gave Into Their Hands

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being SilentMaking SlavesKilling Israelitesrisk

For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

Verse ConceptsMonotheismComparisonsWho Is Like God?Angels

For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

Verse ConceptsValuesPrecious StonesBenefits Of WisdomUnique ThingsInternal AdornmentWorthjewelry

I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

Verse ConceptsTrue Love

Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

Verse ConceptsLikeningComparisonsBeyond CompareLikening God

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

Verse ConceptsSeaVirginLikeningUnique EventsDestruction Of JerusalemThings Like The SeaHuman ComfortLikening ThingsNo HealingSea, Metaphorical ReferencesHealing And Comfort

Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,

Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualRivers And StreamsVineyardAbundance, MaterialWater For PlantsBearing Fruitfruitfulness

And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelDrinking Water

No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

Verse ConceptsBeauty Of ThingsEclipsewaterfalls

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

Verse ConceptsGenerationsWicked Described AsLikeningMarketplacesCommerceComparingLike ChildrenLikening Peoplehumor

What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like?

Verse ConceptsGenerationsLikeningComparingLikening PeopleGay Marriage

Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

Verse ConceptsLikening ThingsParables Of The Kingdom

For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.

Verse ConceptsSelf DeceptionThoughtComparingBeing Without UnderstandingCommending OneselfCompetitionmeasurement

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