Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
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Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
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Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:17
And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
Genesis 1:18
To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
Psalms 19:3
There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.
Psalms 19:4
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
Psalms 139:12
Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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Genesis 18:25
Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
Job 34:10
Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
Job 34:11
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
Job 34:18
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 33:17
But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
Ezekiel 33:19
And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.
Ezekiel 33:20
And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
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Exodus 16:28
And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
Exodus 18:16
And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.
Leviticus 4:13
And if all the people of Israel do wrong, without anyone's knowledge; if they have done any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done, causing sin to come on them;
Psalms 78:7
So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;
Psalms 89:31
If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;
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Leviticus 3:17
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
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Leviticus 10:11
Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.
Deuteronomy 31:12
Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.
Nehemiah 8:7
And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.
Nehemiah 8:8
And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.
Nehemiah 13:3
So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.
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Leviticus 23:14
And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.
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Deuteronomy 6:13
Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
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Leviticus 18:4
But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 18:5
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:26
So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:
Leviticus 20:22
So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.
Deuteronomy 4:1
And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:6
So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.
Deuteronomy 5:31
But as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will give you all the orders and the laws and the decisions which you are to make clear to them, so that they may do them in the land which I am giving them for their heritage.
Deuteronomy 5:33
Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
Deuteronomy 7:11
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
Deuteronomy 12:32
You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
2 Kings 17:37
And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.
Nehemiah 9:14
And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
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Deuteronomy 10:20
Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
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Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
Deuteronomy 16:11
Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
Deuteronomy 16:14
You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
Psalms 119:121
AIN I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
Isaiah 64:5
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
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Deuteronomy 21:9
So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
Psalms 146:8
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.
Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Romans 11:8
As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
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Ruth 4:15
He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.
Lamentations 1:11
Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
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1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.
Proverbs 24:13
My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
Proverbs 24:14
So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
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Job 39:4
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
John 17:13
And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.
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Psalms 39:12
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
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Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Psalms 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
Psalms 50:16
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
Psalms 103:18
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
Psalms 119:18
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
Proverbs 2:7
He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
John 17:17
Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
James 1:5
But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
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Psalms 56:4
In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.
Psalms 56:10
In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.
Psalms 56:11
In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.
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Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Psalms 118:27
The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
John 1:9
The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
2 Corinthians 4:6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:13
But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
1 John 1:5
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
Revelation 21:23
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
Revelation 22:5
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
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Psalms 93:1
The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
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Psalms 93:5
Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
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Deuteronomy 4:44
This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:
Deuteronomy 5:32
Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
Psalms 105:44
And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;
Psalms 147:19
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Psalms 147:20
He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
Ezekiel 20:12
And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.
Hosea 8:12
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Malachi 4:4
Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
Romans 3:1
How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
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Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
Psalms 119:10
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Psalms 119:13
With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.
Psalms 119:30
I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Psalms 119:38
Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.
Psalms 119:40
See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:60
I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.
Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Psalms 119:129
PE Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.
Psalms 119:131
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
Psalms 119:172
Let my tongue make songs in praise of your word; for all your teachings are righteousness.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
Numbers 23:20
See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.
Psalms 111:8
They are fixed for ever and ever, they are done in faith and righteousness.
Psalms 119:74
Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.
Psalms 119:89
LAMED For ever, O Lord, your word is fixed in heaven.
Psalms 119:90
Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.
Psalms 119:160
Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
John 10:35
If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),
Hebrews 6:17
So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
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Leviticus 27:34
These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.
Deuteronomy 7:12
And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
2 Samuel 22:23
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
2 Kings 23:3
And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.
Nehemiah 1:7
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
Psalms 119:2
Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
Psalms 119:5
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Psalms 119:7
I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.
Psalms 119:8
I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.
Psalms 119:93
I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.
Psalms 119:145
KOPH I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.
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Job 33:3
My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.
Psalms 49:3
From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.
Proverbs 4:2
For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.
Proverbs 22:20
Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21
To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?
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Psalms 25:4
Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Proverbs 15:24
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Proverbs 18:2
A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
2 Peter 1:21
For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Proverbs 13:14
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
Micah 3:6
For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
John 17:19
And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
Colossians 1:26
The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,
James 1:21
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
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Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.
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Job 6:25
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Job 26:2
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Ecclesiastes 12:9
And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.
Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.
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Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
Psalms 1:2
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Matthew 5:17
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
Acts 20:27
For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Hebrews 4:13
And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
James 1:25
But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
James 2:12
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
1 Peter 1:23
Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
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Song of Solomon 7:9
And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
Acts 16:31
And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.
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Isaiah 41:21
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 41:22
Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
Isaiah 41:23
Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.
Isaiah 41:26
Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.
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Judges 5:31
So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
Psalms 9:10
And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
Psalms 32:11
Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.
Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
Song of Solomon 6:10
Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
Isaiah 12:3
So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.
Isaiah 49:2
And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
Habakkuk 3:4
He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Hebrews 6:4
As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 1:8
To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
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Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
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Deuteronomy 32:5
They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
Isaiah 30:8
Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.
Isaiah 30:9
For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 7:8
For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
Mark 7:9
And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
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Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:39
And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Matthew 22:40
On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
Mark 12:29
Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;
Mark 12:30
And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Mark 12:31
The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.
Mark 12:32
And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he:
Mark 12:33
And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
Mark 12:34
And when Jesus saw that he gave a wise answer, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And every man after that was in fear of questioning him any more.
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Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
Luke 16:30
And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
Luke 16:31
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
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Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Psalms 119:35
Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.
Psalms 119:43
Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
Psalms 119:66
Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings.
Psalms 119:70
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Proverbs 9:8
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
Luke 24:32
And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?
Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
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2 Samuel 22:31
As for God, his way is all good: the word of the Lord is tested; he is a safe cover for all those who put their faith in him.
Psalms 73:1
Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.
Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
Proverbs 2:11
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
Luke 8:11
Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.
John 6:45
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
Acts 15:9
Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:3
But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
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Mark 16:16
He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
John 6:63
The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
John 6:68
Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;
John 20:31
But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
Acts 10:6
Who is living with Simon, a leather-worker, whose house is by the sea.
Acts 10:22
And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.
Acts 10:32
Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.
Acts 10:33
So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
Acts 11:14
Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.
Romans 10:9
Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
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John 7:50
Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,
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John 7:53
And every man went to his house;
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Matthew 22:29
But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
Mark 9:50
Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Ephesians 5:26
So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
2 Peter 1:9
For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
1 John 2:7
My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.
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Romans 2:17
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
Romans 2:19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
Romans 2:20
A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
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Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
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Romans 1:17
For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Romans 7:9
And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
Romans 7:10
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
Romans 7:11
For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
2 Corinthians 3:7
For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
Galatians 3:11
Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.
Galatians 3:13
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
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2 Corinthians 10:4
(For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);
2 Corinthians 10:5
Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;
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1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;
1 Corinthians 12:7
But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.
Ephesians 4:11
And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
Ephesians 4:12
For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
Ephesians 4:15
But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
Ephesians 4:16
Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
Hebrews 5:12
And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Hebrews 5:13
For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.
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Ephesians 6:1
Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.
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1 Chronicles 29:19
And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Psalms 119:24
Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
Psalms 119:73
JOD Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew 13:12
Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Acts 20:20
And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,
Colossians 3:22
Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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