26 occurrences in 13 translations

'Points' in the Bible

At the Lord’s command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey; these are the stages listed by their starting points:

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsEvil AssociationsNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedTroubling Groups Of Peopleharassmentlandislam

For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.

Verse ConceptsGoadsCoinageAxesForks

The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,Who points with his fingers;

Verse ConceptsEvil EyesWinkingFingers Of PeopleFeet In ActionHeartacheFunmovement

She has sent out her female servants;she calls out from the highest points of the city:

Who has ascended to heaven, and then descended? Who has collected the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped up waters in a garment? Who has established all the farthest points of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

Verse ConceptsCreatorCloaksBindingDivine Power Over NatureClimates, TypesCovering The EarthGoing Up To HeavenGod Going DownGod Dispensing WindKnowingWhat Is God's Name?

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Figurative UseTouching To Harmbreastsvirginity

And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBriersThorns

But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.

Verse ConceptsFour WindsChildren SufferingDeposing

Though I were to write out for himten thousand points of My instruction,they would be regarded as something strange.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

Verse ConceptsIn Order Of RankDo Not Hinder

After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points,

Verse ConceptsQuestioning ChristOpposition To Christ From ScribesPharisees Concerned About ChristSchoolpharisees

Since we have heard that some of our men have troubled you with their teachings, causing distress and confusion—men to whom we gave no such orders or instructions—

Verse ConceptsHeresyMen's OrdersTroubling Groups Of People

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!"

Verse ConceptsNot Judging

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.

Verse ConceptseagernessProfitsWork, And RedemptionProfitable ThingsFaithful SayingsBelief In GodDo Good!Useful ThingsWorks Of FaithAnxiety And StressWork Ethic

By this the Holy Spirit signifies that the way into the Holy Place [the true Holy of Holies and the presence of God] has not yet been disclosed as long as the first or outer tabernacle is still standing [that is, as long as the Levitical system of worship remains a recognized institution],

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceTypesWay, TheChrist The DoorThe Divinity Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureAntitypesShutting DoorsTaught By The SpiritOutside The HouseSymbols of the Holy SpiritWitnessing

After this I saw four angels in their places at the four points of the earth, keeping back the four winds in their hands, so that there might be no moving of the wind on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

Verse ConceptsStandingBeing CalmFour AngelsFour CornersFour WindsNo WindsFour SidesAngels Doing God's WorkHarming TreesThe Sea StilledWeather In The Last DaysweatherFlat Earth

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Degree (37 instances)
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Level (45 instances)
Points (26 instances)
Stage (9 instances)

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