Psalms 149:4
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
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Psalms 149:4
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
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.
Song of Solomon 1:11
We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
Song of Solomon 8:9
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
John 1:14
And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
Romans 8:9
You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;
Philippians 3:21
By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
Hebrews 12:10
For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
1 John 3:2
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
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Deuteronomy 30:9
And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:
Isaiah 65:19
And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
Luke 15:5
And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.
Luke 15:6
And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.
Luke 15:23
And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
Luke 15:24
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
Luke 15:32
But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
John 15:11
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
Proverbs 31:30
Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
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Psalms 5:4
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
Malachi 1:10
If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
Matthew 12:18
See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
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Psalms 45:4
And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.
Revelation 6:1
And I saw when the Lamb undid one of the stamps, and the voice of one of the four beasts came to my ears, saying as with a voice of thunder, Come and see.
Revelation 6:2
And I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it had a bow; and there was given to him a crown: and he went out with power to overcome.
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Judges 5:30
Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?
1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
Psalms 68:13
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
Psalms 74:19
O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.
Psalms 105:37
He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.
Isaiah 55:5
See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.
Ezekiel 16:6
And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;
Ezekiel 16:7
And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9
Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10
And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11
And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12
And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
Ezekiel 16:13
So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.
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Psalms 145:14
The Lord is the support of all who are crushed, and the lifter up of all who are bent down.
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;
Psalms 146:9
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
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Psalms 149:7
To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;
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Psalms 149:8
To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;
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Song of Solomon 7:6
How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
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Isaiah 54:7
For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.
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Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.
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1 Samuel 2:8
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
1 Kings 8:27
But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
2 Chronicles 34:27
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
2 Chronicles 34:28
See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.
Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Matthew 11:5
The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.
Luke 7:22
And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
1 Peter 5:6
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
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Psalms 101:2
I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.
Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
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Isaiah 52:9
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 61:2
To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Zephaniah 3:14
Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Zechariah 8:19
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
1 Peter 2:2
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
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Malachi 3:16
Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.
Malachi 3:17
And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
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Numbers 14:8
And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
2 Samuel 15:26
But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.
2 Samuel 22:20
He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
Matthew 3:17
And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
Matthew 27:43
He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
Acts 2:32
This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33
And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.
Acts 2:34
For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,
Acts 2:35
Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
Acts 2:36
For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.
2 Peter 1:17
For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
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Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Philippians 2:1
If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
Philippians 2:2
Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;
Philippians 2:3
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:
1 Peter 2:3
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
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1 Chronicles 14:2
And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel.
Luke 15:16
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
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Genesis 22:14
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
Exodus 28:40
And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour.
Numbers 27:20
And put your honour on him, so that all the children of Israel may be under his authority.
Numbers 27:21
He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.
Psalms 91:15
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Psalms 96:6
Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.
Isaiah 52:1
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
1 Corinthians 1:31
So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
Revelation 1:6
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
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Psalms 50:2
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.
Psalms 117:2
For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
Psalms 132:9
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints give cries of joy.
Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Matthew 22:11
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
Revelation 5:10
And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:8
And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.
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