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'Nothing' in the Bible

"Do not be afraid of them, for nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresVeilsAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsDo Not Fear Mensecrets

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

Verse ConceptsCompassion, Of Christethics, socialHeart, DivineMercy, Of Jesus ChristPoverty, Attitudes TowardsReceptivenessUnselfishnessJesus Christ, Love OfFaintingChrist SummoningChrist With His DisciplesTired In ActivityFastingDiscipleshipNervousnessFeeding The Poor

After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "Never again will there be fruit from you!" And the fig tree withered at once.

Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitGod, Power OfUnfruitfulnessMiracles Of ChristFigsDivine Power Over NatureFoliage

And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysNaked In ShameDistinctive ClothingGarments

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.'

Verse ConceptsKnowing Right And WrongStatus Of The TempleUnimportant ThingsSwearing

And, 'Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.'

Verse ConceptsKnowing Right And WrongOffering SacrificesUnimportant ThingsSwearing

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

Verse ConceptsNoah's FloodFloods

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.

Verse ConceptsPeople Providing FoodFeeding The Poorhungerjail

As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today."

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples OfJudgment SeatJudgesWise CouncelSittingSleeplessnessWivesVisions And Dreams In ScriptureChrist, Names ForJudgement SeatLeave Them AloneWife

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this man's blood. You take care of it yourselves!"

Verse ConceptsGesturesTumultCrowdsInnocence, Examples OfResponsibility, Examples OfSymbolsWashingExcitementDisorder Among PeopleResponsibility For Blood ShedJesus Christ, SinlessnessPlea Of Innocence

For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresFrom Darkness To LightHidden ThingsAvoiding SecrecyEverything Happening For A Reason

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff -- no bread, no bag, no money in their belts --

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofBeltsLacking MoneyNot EquippedSaving Money

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfExternalsEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedDefilementprepping

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

Verse ConceptsNo FoodChrist SummoningChrist With His Disciples

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Verse ConceptsCompassionMercy, Of Jesus ChristNo Foodempathy

After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Verse ConceptsFruitStanding At A DistanceFoliageNot Findingdistance

So Pilate asked him again, "Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!"

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

Then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

Verse ConceptsConfusionTremblingFear, Of UnknownBewildermentJesus TombThose Who Did Not Tell

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

Verse ConceptsNothingFishingActing All NightFishSuccess And Hard Work

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.

Verse ConceptsCharacterSecret ThingsFrom Darkness To LightAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsAvoiding SecrecyDisclosuressecretshiding

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalJourneyVisitingParticular JourneysNo Food

Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

Verse ConceptsVeilsExposure Of SinAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsDisclosuresphotography

Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing."

Verse ConceptsPursesSandalsShortagesChrist SendingGod ProvidingNot EquippedMoney Boxluck

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gentile RulersDeath Penalty For HeresyDeserving Death

And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong."

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Examples Of

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessAskingJews, TheRacial PrejudiceLonelinessOutsidersSamaritansDisfellowshipDiscourtesyOutcastsMan Providing WaterJews Separate From GentilesNo Dealings

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Verse ConceptsRight Living As FoodIgnorant Of FactsEating Meatdiscrimination

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofSubmissionJesus Christ, Relation To FatherJesus Christ, Son Of GodChrist's Relationship To GodChrist Telling The TruthTruly TrulyInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To GodThe Father's Activity Regarding Christ

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted."

Verse ConceptsFrugalityGathering FoodPlenty Through ChristRemaining FoodFilling PeopleNo LossBeing Lostgathering

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Verse ConceptsMaking Christ KnownIndividuals Being SilentSaid To Be The ChristBoldness

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Verse ConceptsChrist's OriginUnable To Do Other Things

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

Verse ConceptsThose Who Were IgnorantRivers

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

Verse ConceptsAll NationsUnable To Do Other Things

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesNot Asking OthersChrist Telling The TruthCalling In Christ's NameTruly TrulyThe FatherGod Answers PrayerAccess to God

Jesus replied, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheSecrecyAvoiding SecrecyChrist TeachingChrist In The TempleChrist SpeakingThings Manifest

Simon Peter told them, "I am going fishing." "We will go with you," they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

Verse ConceptsBoatsGoing TogetherNothingFishingActing All NightDiscipleshipFishpeter

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

Verse ConceptsThe Beloved DiscipleClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffPreparing For ActionSaid To Be The ChristChrist Is LordChrist's LoveIdentityIdentity In Christjumping

And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofSilenceLiving WitnessesSeeing People

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsPeople Following PeopleScattering FollowersKilling Named Individualsmovement

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

Verse ConceptsGood Human AdviceLeave Them AloneMan's TeachingWork Ethicmovement

But Simon replied, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me."

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For SinnersUnfulfilled Word

So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open, he could see nothing. Leading him by the hand, his companions brought him into Damascus.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesEyes HarmedBlindnessdamascus

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

Verse ConceptsMouthsFar Be It!Forbidden FoodLack Of Holiness

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

Verse ConceptsForeignersAmusementsIntelligenceLeisure, And PastimesPride, Examples OfSloth Examples OfCuriosity

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing, and she whom all the province of Asia and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness."

Verse ConceptsCovetousness, Example OfAll NationsWorshipping Material ThingsDeposing

take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

Verse ConceptsTeachers Of The LawSpirit BeingsSound

Paul replied, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I should be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

Verse ConceptsRoman CitizensStandingCourt SessionsIsrael HardenedJudgement Seat

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this preliminary hearing I may have something to write.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingNot Writing

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.

Verse ConceptsDawnFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfTen Or More Days

But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

Verse ConceptsCustomAncestorsPrisonersPlea Of InnocenceSalvation For Israel

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingNo RoomRight Desires

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

Verse ConceptsChosen InstrumentsHumilityArrogant ExistenceChosen DisciplesOther Unimportant PeopleimportanceJustification Excluding Boasting

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."

Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfMonotheismOne GodIdols Not ExistingUseless IdolsNon ExistenceNo Other Is GodFood For Other godsGod Is OneSacrificesEating Meatstatues

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeLiving In HousesShaming PeopleEating And DrinkingNot Helping The PoorThe Church UniversalAlcoholic BeveragesChurch Of GodGoing To Churchcommunion

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I am too.

Verse ConceptsVisitingDoing God's WorksThose Not Fearing

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those "super-apostles," even though I am nothing.

Verse ConceptsCommendationApostles, IdentficationFalse Teachers, Examples OfFoolish PeopleRelative GreatnessFalse ApostlesOutward CompulsionPraising Specific PeopleI Am Unimportant

But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) -- those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

Verse ConceptsOutward AppearancePrejudiceJustification Under The GospelGod, Impartiality OfLeadersrecognitionefficiencyimportance

Have you suffered so many things for nothing? -- if indeed it was for nothing.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of BelieversUseless LabourSufferingexperience

I have experienced times of need and times of abundance. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of contentment, whether I go satisfied or hungry, have plenty or nothing.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForSecrecyAbaseHelp In ShortageAbasementBeing HumbleBeing ContentAbundanceFeeding The Poorhungerhumbleexperiencefreemasonry

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Verse ConceptsFoolish QuestionsFools, Characteristics OfBackbitingEnvyThe ProudUncharitablenessNot Believing PeopleAvoid QuarrelsMind Battlesrumors

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Verse ConceptsSpeechcriticism

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In NtPeople Of Judahconnectionpriests

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

Verse Conceptsgrandmasfriendliness

For they have gone forth on behalf of "The Name," accepting nothing from the pagans.

Verse ConceptsAcceptanceSupporthelp

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