'It's' in the Bible

Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there—it’s only a small place, isn’t it?—so that I can survive.”

Then Jacob said, “Look, it is still broad daylight. It’s not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze.”

He said to his brothers, “My money has been returned! It’s here in my bag.” Their hearts sank. Trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

But Moses replied:It’s not the sound of a victory cryand not the sound of a cry of defeat;I hear the sound of singing!

Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It’s not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!”

So get up early in the morning, you and your masters’ servants who came with you. When you’ve all gotten up early, go as soon as it’s light.”

Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the king’s sons have come! It’s exactly like your servant said.”

They replied, “A hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.”He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.”She replied, “Everything is all right.”

Gehazi said, “It’s all right. My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them 75 pounds of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

Joram turned around and fled, shouting to Ahaziah, “It’s treachery, Ahaziah!”

Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen 10 steps. No, let the shadow go back 10 steps.”

The ocean depths say, “It’s not in me,”while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”

“It’s worthless, it’s worthless!” the buyer says,but after he is on his way, he gloats.

Keep your feet from going bareand your throat from thirst.But you say, “It’s hopeless;I love strangers,and I will continue to follow them.”

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It’s a desolation without man or beast; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

So I asked, “What is it?”He responded, “It’s a measuring basket that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

since John had been telling him, “It’s not lawful for you to have her!”

When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.

“Lord, if it’s You,” Peter answered Him, “command me to come to You on the water.”

It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it’s good for us to be here! If You want, I will make three tabernacles here: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown in the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground.

As the two men were departing from Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it’s good for us to be here! Let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.

And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be a scorcher!’ and it is.

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture.”

But we were hoping that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it’s the third day since these things happened.

But they urged Him: “Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. It’s been four days.”

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

“You’re crazy!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said, “It’s his angel!”

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

They listened to him up to this word. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this person off the earth—it’s a disgrace for him to live!”

I answered them that it’s not the Romans’ custom to give any man up before the accused confronts the accusers face to face and has an opportunity to give a defense concerning the charges.

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?