Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
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Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
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Genesis 4:4
And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
Exodus 20:24
Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.
Psalms 119:108
Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.
Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.
Romans 15:16
To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
Hebrews 9:22
And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
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.
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.
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
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Exodus 5:2
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Job 22:3
Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?
Psalms 147:10
He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Jeremiah 2:21
But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Malachi 2:17
You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
Malachi 3:13
Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
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Exodus 10:9
And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.
Exodus 10:24
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.
Exodus 10:25
But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.
Exodus 10:26
So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place.
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Exodus 27:1
And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
Exodus 27:2
Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
Exodus 27:3
And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.
Exodus 27:4
And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.
Exodus 27:5
And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.
Exodus 27:6
And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
Exodus 27:7
And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it.
Exodus 27:8
The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
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Leviticus 7:11
And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning.
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Leviticus 11:10
All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
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Leviticus 11:34
Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.
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Leviticus 22:17
And the Lord said to Moses,
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
Deuteronomy 12:8
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
Deuteronomy 12:9
For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
Deuteronomy 12:13
Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
Deuteronomy 12:14
But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.
Hebrews 5:4
And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.
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Deuteronomy 17:1
No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:10
Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
Deuteronomy 18:12
For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
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Judges 15:8
And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
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Genesis 18:23
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
Genesis 18:30
And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.
Genesis 18:32
And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.
1 Samuel 7:8
And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 7:9
And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.
Job 23:4
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
Psalms 99:9
Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
James 5:15
And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
1 John 5:16
If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
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2 Samuel 15:7
Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:
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2 Samuel 15:8
For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
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2 Samuel 15:12
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.
1 Kings 1:9
Then Adonijah put to death sheep and oxen and fat beasts by the stone of Zoheleth, by En-rogel; and he sent for all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants, to come to him:
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2 Kings 13:3
So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.
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2 Kings 13:4
Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.
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Deuteronomy 26:14
No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.
Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Nehemiah 8:11
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
Nehemiah 8:12
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
Malachi 2:12
The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:13
And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
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Job 4:6
Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?
Job 4:7
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
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Genesis 20:7
So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.
Genesis 20:17
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
Genesis 29:31
Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
1 Samuel 5:11
So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.
1 Samuel 5:12
And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.
Ezra 6:10
So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
Job 42:8
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:9
And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
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.
Acts 3:24
And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brothers, keep us in mind in your prayers.
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Psalms 5:1
To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.
Psalms 5:2
Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
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Psalms 33:1
Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.
Psalms 135:3
Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.
Psalms 147:1
Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.
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Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
Psalms 50:13
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
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Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Ezekiel 14:4
For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;
Ezekiel 14:7
When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8
And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 15:2
And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
Psalms 66:20
Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.
Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 64:7
And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
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Job 1:8
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
Psalms 37:37
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 3:10
So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Proverbs 11:26
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
Proverbs 13:24
He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
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Psalms 112:4
For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
Proverbs 10:9
He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.
Proverbs 10:14
Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Proverbs 10:25
When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
Proverbs 11:8
The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
Proverbs 14:2
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.
Proverbs 14:32
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.
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Proverbs 15:13
A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Song of Solomon 8:13
You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.
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Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:10
There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
Proverbs 15:11
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 16:2
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Hebrews 4:13
And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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1 Samuel 14:18
And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.
Psalms 37:7
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
Proverbs 20:22
Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
Proverbs 20:23
Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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Proverbs 21:7
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
Proverbs 21:29
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
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Isaiah 13:15
Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
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Isaiah 42:6
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
Isaiah 42:7
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
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;
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Isaiah 50:1
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
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Isaiah 55:1
Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
Isaiah 55:3
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
John 7:37
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.
John 7:38
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
John 7:39
This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.
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Proverbs 11:2
When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
Proverbs 11:13
He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.
Proverbs 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
Proverbs 11:25
He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
Proverbs 13:7
A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.
Proverbs 13:15
Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.
Proverbs 14:25
A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.
Proverbs 14:34
By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
Proverbs 15:1
By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
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1 Kings 3:10
Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
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.
Isaiah 43:23
You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Isaiah 61:10
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
Jeremiah 33:3
Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
Matthew 6:6
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Luke 11:9
And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.
Luke 11:10
For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
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.
Job 8:5
If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Jeremiah 9:24
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:12
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
Luke 18:13
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
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;
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
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2 Kings 3:13
But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.
Psalms 101:3
I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.
Proverbs 8:7
For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Jeremiah 42:21
And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.
Luke 20:8
And Jesus said, And I will not make clear to you by what authority I do these things.
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Proverbs 7:15
So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
Ezekiel 20:31
And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.
Ezekiel 23:29
And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.
Ezekiel 23:37
For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.
Micah 3:7
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
John 13:18
I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.
John 13:26
This was the answer Jesus gave: It is the one to whom I will give this bit of bread after I have put it in the vessel. Then he took the bit of bread, put it into the vessel, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27
And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.
John 18:28
So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
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Exodus 23:11
But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.
Exodus 28:38
And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.
Psalms 5:12
For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.
Psalms 30:5
For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 69:32
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
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;
Hosea 5:6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
Amos 5:4
For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Luke 18:10
Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.
Ephesians 2:18
Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.
Hebrews 4:16
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
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Micah 4:7
And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
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Micah 4:8
And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
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Joshua 7:10
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
Haggai 1:5
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
Haggai 1:7
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:9
You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.
Haggai 1:10
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
Haggai 1:11
And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
Haggai 2:10
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 2:14
Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.
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Job 35:12
There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Psalms 26:5
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
Psalms 34:17
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, You have no knowledge of what you are saying. Are you able to take of my cup? or to undergo the baptism which I am to undergo?
Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Acts 10:31
Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.
1 Peter 3:4
But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.
1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
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Matthew 7:13
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
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Matthew 7:14
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.
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Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
Romans 14:23
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Galatians 4:7
So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.
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Psalms 40:7
Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,
Matthew 12:7
But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.
Hebrews 10:5
So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
Hebrews 10:6
You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
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Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Job 22:23
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Job 22:24
And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Job 22:25
Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;
Job 22:26
For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Matthew 20:21
And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
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Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.
Luke 13:26
Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets.
Luke 13:27
But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.
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John 1:48
Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.
John 1:49
Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!
John 1:50
In answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these.
John 1:51
And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.
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John 17:14
I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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John 17:16
They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
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Acts 9:14
And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
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:
2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
2 Corinthians 6:15
And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Luke 21:2
And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.
Acts 5:1
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
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Psalms 78:36
But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Psalms 78:37
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
Proverbs 12:27
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
Proverbs 14:9
In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
Isaiah 48:2
For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
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.
Hosea 8:3
Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Mark 12:33
And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
Ephesians 2:2
In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
James 4:4
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
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Isaiah 43:21
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
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1 Chronicles 28:8
So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles 29:18
O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
Ezra 8:22
For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
Psalms 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.
Psalms 119:2
Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
Isaiah 45:19
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Ephesians 6:18
With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
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Psalms 18:6
In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
Psalms 32:6
For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.
Psalms 134:2
Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
Proverbs 9:7
He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.
Proverbs 13:5
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
Song of Solomon 4:11
Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Ezekiel 36:37
This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.
Acts 10:3
He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.
James 1:6
Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
Jude 1:23
And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.
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1 Kings 17:22
And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.
Jeremiah 7:27
And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.
Jeremiah 11:14
And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 11:15
About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
James 5:18
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
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2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
Psalms 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Isaiah 26:16
Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
Isaiah 65:24
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
Malachi 1:9
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
Matthew 7:7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before 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 John 5:14
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
1 John 5:15
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
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Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
Psalms 4:5
Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jeremiah 7:12
But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
Hosea 8:2
They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
Revelation 5:8
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 21:27
And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
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