Proverbs 13:12
Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
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Proverbs 13:12
Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
Haggai 2:7
And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Hebrews 3:2
Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
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Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
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Genesis 3:24
So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.
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Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
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Genesis 45:9
Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:
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Joshua 21:43
So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.
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Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?
Ruth 1:12
Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,
Ruth 1:13
Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.
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1 Samuel 14:37
And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.
1 Samuel 14:41
Then Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, Why have you not given me an answer today? If the sin is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord God of Israel, give Urim, and if it is in your people Israel, give Thummim. And by the decision of the Lord, Saul and Jonathan were marked out, and the people went free.
Psalms 22:3
But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
Jeremiah 42:7
And it came about that after ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
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1 Samuel 16:1
And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.
1 Samuel 23:17
And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.
1 Samuel 25:30
And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;
1 Samuel 27:1
And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.
Psalms 116:11
Though I said in my fear, All men are false.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
Isaiah 40:28
Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
Isaiah 40:30
Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;
Isaiah 40:31
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Isaiah 51:12
I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
Jeremiah 12:1
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
Matthew 14:31
And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?
Mark 4:40
And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?
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2 Samuel 23:5
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
Psalms 119:166
Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.
Acts 3:21
Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
Acts 28:31
Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ without fear, and no orders were given that he was not to do so.
Romans 8:25
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
Romans 15:5
Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:
2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.
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Psalms 6:3
My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
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1 Kings 1:48
Then the king said, May the God of Israel be praised, who has given one of my seed to be king in my place this day and has let my eyes see it.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
Psalms 21:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!
Psalms 21:2
You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
Psalms 119:40
See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:131
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Song of Solomon 3:4
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
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 7:15
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
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Psalms 78:29
So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;
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Psalms 109:12
Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.
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Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
Psalms 143:7
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
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Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Psalms 119:123
My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
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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 30:1
Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.
Genesis 30:2
But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
1 Samuel 1:11
And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:
1 Samuel 1:27
My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:
1 Samuel 1:28
So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
Psalms 127:3
See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
Isaiah 56:5
I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.
Acts 7:5
And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
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Psalms 145:16
By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
Mark 10:35
And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?
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Proverbs 3:19
The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
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Proverbs 11:27
He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
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Proverbs 13:8
A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Proverbs 13:18
Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.
Proverbs 13:22
The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
Proverbs 13:25
The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
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Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
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Isaiah 13:22
And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
Isaiah 18:2
Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
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Isaiah 28:12
To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
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Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
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Luke 24:17
And he said to them, What are you talking about together while you go?
Luke 24:21
But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;
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Job 6:8
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Job 17:15
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
Mark 5:35
And while he was still talking, they came from the ruler of the Synagogue's house, saying, Your daughter is dead: why are you still troubling the Master?
Mark 5:36
But Jesus, giving no attention to their words, said to the ruler of the Synagogue, Have no fear, only have faith.
Luke 1:18
And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.
Acts 27:25
And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me.
Romans 4:18
Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
Romans 4:19
And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
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Romans 7:22
In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
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 7:24
How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
Romans 7:25
I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
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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 46:30
And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.
Genesis 49:18
I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.
Psalms 40:2
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
Psalms 40:3
And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.
Luke 2:29
Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said;
Luke 2:30
For my eyes have seen your salvation,
John 16:22
So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
Romans 8:23
And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
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.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
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Isaiah 35:3
Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.
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Hebrews 10:13
And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
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Judges 5:28
Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
Hebrews 10:35
So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
Hebrews 10:37
In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
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Revelation 2:9
I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.
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Revelation 3:15
I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.
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Revelation 3:16
So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
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