Psalms 68:6
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
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Psalms 68:6
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
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Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Matthew 19:4
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
Colossians 3:18
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.
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Genesis 21:5
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
Genesis 30:22
Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.
Genesis 30:23
And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
Luke 1:14
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
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Genesis 22:2
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
Genesis 22:16
Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
Deuteronomy 6:4
Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
Psalms 22:19
Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.
Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.
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Genesis 25:15
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Isaiah 22:21
And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
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Exodus 14:11
And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?
Exodus 15:24
And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?
Exodus 16:2
And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
Exodus 16:7
And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?
Exodus 16:8
And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
Exodus 17:2
So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?
Exodus 17:3
And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
Numbers 11:1
Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
Numbers 11:2
And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.
Numbers 11:3
So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.
Numbers 11:4
And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
Numbers 11:5
Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:
Numbers 11:6
But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.
Numbers 14:1
Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
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Exodus 17:14
And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.
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Exodus 17:16
For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.
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Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
Deuteronomy 10:18
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
Proverbs 15:25
The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
Numbers 14:3
Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
Numbers 14:4
And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
Numbers 16:13
Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?
Numbers 16:14
And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
Numbers 16:41
But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.
Numbers 17:12
And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.
Numbers 20:2
And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.
Numbers 21:5
And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.
Psalms 78:19
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
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Numbers 27:6
And the Lord said to Moses,
Proverbs 31:19
She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
Jeremiah 31:1
At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
Galatians 3:28
There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:15
From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
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Deuteronomy 9:13
And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:
2 Kings 17:14
And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
Psalms 78:8
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
Ezekiel 2:4
And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
Ezekiel 2:5
And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.
Ezekiel 2:6
And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
Ezekiel 2:7
And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.
Ezekiel 2:8
But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.
Ezekiel 20:8
But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
Hosea 4:16
For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.
Matthew 23:31
So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
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Exodus 1:21
And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;
2 Samuel 7:11
From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.
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Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.
Exodus 33:3
Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.
Exodus 33:5
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.
Exodus 34:9
And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.
Deuteronomy 9:6
Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9:24
From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 31:27
For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
1 Samuel 15:23
For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
Nehemiah 9:17
And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Psalms 106:7
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
Luke 19:14
But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
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1 Chronicles 2:55
And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.
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1 Samuel 2:32
And never again will there be an old man in your family.
Psalms 26:8
Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.
Psalms 26:9
Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
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Psalms 68:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song. Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.
Psalms 68:9
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
Psalms 68:10
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Psalms 68:18
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
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Psalms 68:22
The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea;
Psalms 68:26
Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms 102:28
The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
Isaiah 65:21
And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
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Job 37:18
Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
Job 38:37
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
Psalms 33:13
The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
Psalms 33:14
From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.
Psalms 57:11
Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.
Psalms 89:7
God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
Psalms 90:1
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
Isaiah 63:15
Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
Habakkuk 3:11
At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.
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Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Job 10:21
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
Job 10:22
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Job 15:30
He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Job 33:30
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
Job 42:11
And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
Job 42:12
And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Psalms 107:11
Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
Psalms 107:40
He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Zechariah 2:13
Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.
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Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
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Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
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Isaiah 2:4
And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
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Psalms 66:12
You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.
Psalms 107:15
Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Psalms 107:41
But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
Psalms 142:7
Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
Isaiah 49:9
Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
Isaiah 60:2
For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.
Isaiah 60:3
And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
Zechariah 9:11
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
Zechariah 9:12
And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
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.
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Job 15:22
He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
Job 42:10
And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
Psalms 105:17
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:
Psalms 105:18
His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;
Psalms 105:19
Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.
Psalms 105:20
The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.
Psalms 106:43
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
Isaiah 8:21
And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
Isaiah 51:2
Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
Isaiah 60:1
Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
Isaiah 63:11
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
Zechariah 2:12
And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.
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Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24
The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.
Job 39:6
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Psalms 107:34
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
Malachi 1:3
And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
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Jeremiah 40:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him; for he had been put in chains, among all the prisoners of Jerusalem and Judah who were taken away prisoners to Babylon.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 28:20
But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
Ephesians 6:20
For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.
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Lamentations 3:39
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Lamentations 3:41
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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Isaiah 1:2
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Isaiah 65:2
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
Jeremiah 5:23
But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
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 23:32
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
John 19:15
Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.
Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
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Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Acts 5:19
But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,
Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.
Acts 12:8
Then the angel said, Put on your shoes and get ready to go. And he did so. And he said, Put your coat round you and come with me.
Acts 12:9
And he went out after him; and he was not certain if what was done by the angel was a fact, for it seemed to him that he was seeing a vision.
Acts 12:10
And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.
Acts 12:11
And when Peter came to his senses he said, Now, truly, I am certain that the Lord has sent his angel and taken me out of the hands of Herod, against all the hopes of the Jews.
Acts 12:17
But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.
Acts 12:22
And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.
Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.
Acts 12:25
And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.
Acts 16:25
But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;
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Acts 12:12
And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer.
Acts 12:13
And he gave a blow on the door, and a young girl came to it, named Rhoda.
Acts 12:14
And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.
Acts 12:15
And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.
Acts 12:16
But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.
Acts 12:18
Now when it was day, the armed men were greatly troubled about what had become of Peter.
Acts 12:19
And Herod, when he sent for him, and he was not there, after questioning the watchmen, gave orders that they were to be put to death. Then he went down from Judaea to Caesarea for a time.
Acts 12:20
Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.
Acts 12:21
And on the day which had been fixed, Herod, dressed in his robes and seated in his place, made a public statement to them.
Acts 12:24
But the word of the Lord went on increasing.
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