Psalms 87:5
And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.
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Psalms 87:5
And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
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 26:18
And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;
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.
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.
Deuteronomy 29:13
And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Psalms 47:9
The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.
Isaiah 43:1
But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
Isaiah 62:12
And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
Hosea 1:10
But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
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Genesis 22:17
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
Genesis 32:12
And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
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Genesis 49:33
And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.
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Exodus 16:21
And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.
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Leviticus 17:10
And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
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1 Kings 8:1
Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.
1 Chronicles 11:5
And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.
2 Chronicles 5:2
Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.
Psalms 2:6
But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 9:11
Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.
Psalms 48:12
Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.
Psalms 48:13
Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.
Psalms 78:68
But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
Psalms 125:1
A Song of the going up. Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
Psalms 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.
Lamentations 4:11
The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.
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1 Chronicles 29:30
Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.
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Esther 1:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)
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Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.
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Psalms 37:24
Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.
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1 Kings 15:4
But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;
Psalms 89:4
I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
Psalms 89:37
It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
Luke 1:32
He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:
Luke 1:35
And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Acts 16:17
She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.
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Psalms 45:11
So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.
Psalms 102:28
The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
Psalms 149:2
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Isaiah 1:26
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
Isaiah 1:27
Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
Isaiah 2:3
And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
Micah 4:2
And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Romans 9:33
As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
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:
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
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Psalms 139:14
I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
Isaiah 37:26
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Isaiah 37:32
For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isaiah 54:3
For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.
Isaiah 54:4
Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.
Revelation 21:10
And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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Psalms 69:28
Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.
Psalms 69:29
But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.
Isaiah 4:3
And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Daniel 12:1
And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.
Luke 10:20
Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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Isaiah 19:24
In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:
Ephesians 2:14
For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,
Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Ephesians 2:21
In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;
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 3:4
For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.
1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 48:22
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Romans 1:30
Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
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Isaiah 49:8
This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;
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,
2 Corinthians 5:5
Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.
Colossians 2:7
Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
2 Thessalonians 2:17
Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.
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Isaiah 49:16
See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
Acts 9:11
And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;
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Isaiah 60:4
Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.
Isaiah 66:6
There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.
Isaiah 66:7
Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.
Isaiah 66:8
When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.
Isaiah 66:9
Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Isaiah 66:10
Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
Galatians 4:19
My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,
Revelation 12:2
And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
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Jeremiah 24:6
For I will keep my eyes on them for good, and I will take them back again to this land, building them up and not pulling them down, planting them and not uprooting them.
Jeremiah 31:40
And all the valley of the dead bodies, and all the field of death as far as the stream Kidron, up to the angle of the horses' doorway to the east, will be holy to the Lord; it will not again be uprooted or overturned for ever.
Jeremiah 42:10
If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.
Jeremiah 45:4
This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;
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1 Kings 8:13
So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.
Psalms 46:5
God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.
Psalms 47:2
For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalms 48:8
As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.)
Psalms 50:2
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.
Psalms 132:14
This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
Isaiah 12:6
Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
Lamentations 4:12
To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.
Revelation 14:1
And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
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Ezekiel 6:3
You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.
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Ezekiel 36:25
And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.
Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
Ezekiel 36:28
So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
John 3:6
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
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Nahum 1:1
The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
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John 12:19
Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.
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Acts 8:28
He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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Romans 4:4
Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
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2 Samuel 7:9
And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.
Psalms 3:3
But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.
Romans 8:31
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
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1 Corinthians 11:6
For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.
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Isaiah 43:21
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
Galatians 3:26
Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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.
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 Peter 2:10
In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
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