Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 2:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:4
Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Jeremiah 1:4
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.
Jeremiah 2:18
And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
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Romans 11:16
And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
Leviticus 23:10
Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;
Exodus 23:19
The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Hebrews 12:23
To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,
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Exodus 19:4
You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.
Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
Deuteronomy 26:19
And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.
Psalms 50:5
Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
Psalms 114:2
Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.
Amos 3:2
You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
Zechariah 14:20
On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
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Jeremiah 50:7
They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
Daniel 9:16
O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
Zechariah 1:15
And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
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Leviticus 22:10
No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.
Leviticus 22:16
So causing sin to come on them when they take their holy things for food: I am the Lord who make them holy.
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Jeremiah 30:16
For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.
Jeremiah 10:25
Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
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Leviticus 5:5
And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;
Leviticus 5:19
It is an offering for his error: he is certainly responsible before the Lord.
Numbers 5:7
Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.
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