Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
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Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Genesis 45:5
Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.
Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
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 85:3
You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.
Psalms 144:15
Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Isaiah 65:1
I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
Hosea 1:10
But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
Matthew 12:20
The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
Luke 23:34
And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
Romans 4:8
Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.
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Genesis 30:23
And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.
Isaiah 1:24
For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
Isaiah 51:22
This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:
Jeremiah 15:6
You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.
Lamentations 4:22
The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.
Zechariah 1:15
And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
Zechariah 1:16
So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
Zechariah 8:13
And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.
Zechariah 8:14
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:
Zechariah 8:15
So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.
Zechariah 10:6
And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.
Zechariah 10:7
And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
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Genesis 34:3
Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
Genesis 50:21
So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
2 Chronicles 30:22
And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 32:6
And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,
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Genesis 38:12
And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.
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Genesis 41:52
And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.
Genesis 48:16
The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.
Genesis 48:17
Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.
Genesis 48:18
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.
Genesis 48:19
But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
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Exodus 30:18
You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;
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2 Samuel 10:2
And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
Job 21:2
Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.
Jeremiah 16:7
No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
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2 Samuel 19:7
So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.
Proverbs 19:15
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
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2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
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?
2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.
Psalms 45:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Psalms 45:7
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
Psalms 72:1
Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
Isaiah 33:22
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.
Hosea 3:5
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
Zechariah 9:9
Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
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Exodus 9:28
Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer.
1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Psalms 90:13
Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.
Psalms 90:15
Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.
Isaiah 27:8
Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
Joel 2:13
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Mark 14:41
And he came the third time, and said to them, Go on sleeping now and take your rest: it is enough; the hour has come; see, the Son of man is given up into the hands of evil men.
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2 Kings 20:1
In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.
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Ezra 9:13
And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;
Nehemiah 9:32
And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
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Judges 7:11
And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.
Job 4:3
Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
Job 4:4
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
Job 16:5
I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
Luke 22:43
And an angel from heaven came to him, to give him strength.
Acts 18:23
And having been there for some time, he went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, making the disciples strong in the faith.
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Psalms 19:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
Psalms 19:2
Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.
Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Romans 2:14
For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;
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Psalms 22:1
To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David. My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalms 22:2
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
Psalms 22:3
But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
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Psalms 34:2
My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.
Psalms 34:3
O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.
Psalms 34:4
I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.
Psalms 34:5
Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.
Psalms 34:6
This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.
Psalms 66:16
Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
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Psalms 72:2
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
Psalms 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
Jeremiah 23:5
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
Jeremiah 33:15
In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.
Hebrews 1:9
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
Revelation 19:11
And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.
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Psalms 74:9
We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
Luke 1:78
Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
John 1:4
What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 8:12
Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
1 John 1:1
That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
1 John 1:3
We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
Revelation 21:11
Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:
Revelation 21:23
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
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Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Psalms 102:16
When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
John 2:8
Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.
John 2:9
After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,
John 2:10
And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.
John 2:11
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him.
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.
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Isaiah 1:2
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
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Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
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Isaiah 2:5
O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
Luke 1:77
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,
Luke 1:79
To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
John 1:5
And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
John 9:5
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:39
And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.
John 12:35
Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
John 12:36
In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
John 12:46
I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.
1 John 1:2
(And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);
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Isaiah 37:31
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
Isaiah 37:32
For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isaiah 37:35
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
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Isaiah 39:7
And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.
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Isaiah 39:8
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.
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Isaiah 40:7
The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
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 42:5
God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
Jeremiah 32:27
See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?
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Isaiah 48:22
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Isaiah 57:21
There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
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Isaiah 29:1
Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:
Isaiah 40:10
See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.
Isaiah 49:22
This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.
Isaiah 49:23
And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
Isaiah 52:10
The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 57:19
I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
Isaiah 62:10
Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.
Isaiah 66:11
So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.
Isaiah 66:12
For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.
Romans 10:13
Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.
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Isaiah 48:15
I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.
Isaiah 52:8
The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
Isaiah 52:11
Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Romans 10:15
And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.
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1 Kings 22:19
And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
Job 23:7
There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Psalms 32:5
I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
Psalms 130:3
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
Isaiah 35:1
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.
Isaiah 49:3
And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;
Isaiah 53:6
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
2 Corinthians 7:6
But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;
Colossians 1:12
Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
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1 Samuel 15:29
And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.
Hebrews 6:17
So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
Hebrews 11:11
And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;
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1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
Psalms 2:4
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?
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.
Isaiah 66:1
The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
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.
Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
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 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
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Isaiah 58:12
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
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Isaiah 61:4
And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
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Isaiah 35:2
It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
Isaiah 45:22
Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 49:1
Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
Jeremiah 33:8
And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.
Jeremiah 33:9
And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 5:2
Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Romans 5:11
And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.
Colossians 1:13
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:
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Lamentations 5:22
But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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Ezekiel 16:42
And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.
Ezekiel 39:29
And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.
Nahum 1:12
This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.
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Isaiah 48:11
For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
Ezekiel 34:16
I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
Matthew 5:16
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Luke 2:38
And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.
Luke 21:28
But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.
John 1:29
The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Acts 13:39
And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.
Romans 3:23
For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
Romans 4:6
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
Romans 11:15
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
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Ezekiel 37:5
This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;
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Ezekiel 37:6
And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
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Numbers 14:21
But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Isaiah 52:2
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Matthew 6:10
Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
Acts 9:31
And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.
Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:6
Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;
Ephesians 3:10
So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,
Philippians 1:14
And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.
Colossians 2:15
Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.
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Zechariah 1:7
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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Zechariah 1:8
I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.
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Zechariah 7:2
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
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Matthew 1:9
And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah;
Matthew 1:10
And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah;
Matthew 1:11
And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.
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Matthew 2:13
And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.
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Matthew 2:14
So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt;
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Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.
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Matthew 9:38
Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
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Ecclesiastes 9:7
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Isaiah 43:20
The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
Isaiah 44:10
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Isaiah 49:5
And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.
Isaiah 51:4
Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
Isaiah 51:16
And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
Matthew 9:8
But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.
Mark 15:43
There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.
Luke 5:20
And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.
John 5:24
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
Acts 13:38
And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
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John 1:28
These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.
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Isaiah 25:9
And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
Isaiah 35:9
No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
Isaiah 49:10
They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.
Zephaniah 3:16
In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.
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.
John 16:20
Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
Hebrews 4:9
So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.
Hebrews 11:25
Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;
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John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
John 21:16
Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.
John 21:17
He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
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Acts 20:12
And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.
Ephesians 6:22
Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, so that you may have knowledge of our position, and that he may give comfort to your hearts.
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Romans 14:1
Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
Romans 15:1
We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
Romans 15:2
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
Romans 15:3
For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.
Romans 15:4
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
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.
Galatians 6:2
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
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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.
1 Samuel 12:24
Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.
Isaiah 44:21
Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.
Isaiah 44:23
Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.
Isaiah 49:24
Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Isaiah 52:5
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.
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.
Matthew 1:21
And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
2 Corinthians 1:10
Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
2 Corinthians 2:11
So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.
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Galatians 4:4
But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Galatians 4:5
That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
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Psalms 32:7
You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)
Psalms 51:8
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Psalms 51:9
Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
Psalms 85:2
The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
Psalms 119:50
This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.
Isaiah 33:24
And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.
Isaiah 53:12
For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
Jeremiah 31:16
The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.
Romans 3:25
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Romans 3:26
And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
Ephesians 1:8
Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
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1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
Ephesians 2:6
So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 2:7
That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
Ephesians 3:18
May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
Ephesians 3:19
And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
Colossians 1:26
The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,
Colossians 1:27
To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Colossians 2:12
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
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1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
1 Thessalonians 2:12
So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.
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Isaiah 42:18
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Malachi 4:4
Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
1 John 2:8
Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
1 John 2:9
He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
Revelation 21:24
And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.
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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 126:5
Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Psalms 126:6
Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
Isaiah 25:8
He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
Isaiah 35:10
Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
Isaiah 65:18
But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.
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.
Jeremiah 31:12
So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
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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