'Complete' in the Bible
Complete my older daughter's bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work."
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn't you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?
The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, "Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!"
The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh's slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, "Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past -- both yesterday and today?"
Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.
It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.
"'Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.
"'You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.
"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.
It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath."
"'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.
but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest -- a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.
In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success."
Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations."
Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!"
At that time Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues came to them and asked, "Who gave you authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?"
We inquired of those elders, asking them, 'Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?'
"I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.
For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"
I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby," says the Lord, "and I will heal them.
Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts are complete, a rash and deceitful king will arise.
But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.
"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this temple, and his hands will complete it." Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.
But he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.
I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.
And on the basis of faith in Jesus' name, his very name has made this man -- whom you see and know -- strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.
"While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.
No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
Thus we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, so also he should complete this act of kindness for you.
to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.
We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God -- given to me for you -- in order to complete the word of God,
And tell Archippus, "See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord."
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.
Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
They must not slander anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.
The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."
But showing its fault, God says to them, "Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
Though I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come visit you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.