Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
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Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
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Genesis 4:2
Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
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Genesis 22:14
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
Genesis 42:24
And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.
Genesis 43:29
Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.
Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.
Genesis 43:31
Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us.
Genesis 44:1
Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;
Genesis 44:2
And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.
Genesis 44:3
And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.
Genesis 44:4
And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?
Genesis 44:5
Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.
Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.
Genesis 45:2
And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.
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Genesis 45:3
And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.
Genesis 45:4
Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.
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.
Matthew 15:22
And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
Matthew 15:23
But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.
Matthew 15:24
But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:25
But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.
Matthew 15:26
And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
Matthew 15:27
But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.
Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
Mark 7:29
And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the evil spirit has gone out of your daughter.
John 11:6
So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.
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Exodus 3:14
And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
Exodus 34:7
Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
Nehemiah 9:17
And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Psalms 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
Psalms 25:11
Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.
Psalms 36:5
Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.
Psalms 36:7
How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.
Psalms 78:38
But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.
Psalms 103:8
The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
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.
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Exodus 23:7
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
1 Kings 21:13
And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
Isaiah 5:23
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Amos 6:12
Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?
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Numbers 20:12
Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.
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.
2 Samuel 7:18
Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Psalms 9:12
When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
Psalms 89:7
God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
Psalms 143:2
Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Psalms 144:3
Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 40:25
Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
Hebrews 12:28
If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is an all-burning fire.
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2 Samuel 19:14
And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.
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1 Kings 6:4
And for the house he made windows, with network across.
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1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:
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Genesis 44:18
Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.
Esther 4:11
It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.
Esther 4:12
And they said these words to Mordecai.
Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.
Esther 4:14
If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?
Esther 4:15
Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:
Esther 4:16
Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
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Job 23:13
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
Isaiah 45:13
I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Jeremiah 23:20
The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.
Jeremiah 51:29
And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
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.
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Job 28:12
But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Job 28:13
Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.
Job 28:14
The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
Job 28:15
Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.
Job 28:16
It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17
Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.
Job 28:18
There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
Job 28:19
The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.
Job 28:20
From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Job 28:21
For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.
Job 28:22
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
Job 28:23
God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;
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Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
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.
Luke 4:25
Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;
John 9:31
We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
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Psalms 103:9
His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.
Psalms 103:10
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
Psalms 103:13
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Psalms 103:16
The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psalms 103:18
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
Psalms 108:4
For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.
Psalms 145:8
The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.
Psalms 145:9
The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.
Isaiah 44:22
I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
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 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalms 34:17
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 145:18
The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.
Psalms 145:19
To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Acts 8:20
But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.
James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
James 5:18
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
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Job 38:37
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
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 66:19
But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
Proverbs 15:26
Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
Proverbs 21:8
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
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:
Luke 11:8
I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
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.
Romans 8:27
And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
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Proverbs 11:8
The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.
Proverbs 21:18
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
Isaiah 43:3
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Isaiah 43:4
Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
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Isaiah 53:4
But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
Isaiah 53:5
But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
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Psalms 14:7
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
Isaiah 22:14
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Isaiah 59:20
And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Isaiah 66:21
And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 1:18
For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
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Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:14
Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Jeremiah 3:16
And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.
Ezekiel 18:29
But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
Zechariah 4:10
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Luke 17:21
And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.
Luke 17:24
For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
Luke 17:32
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
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Daniel 9:9
With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
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.
Micah 7:19
He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.
Micah 7:20
You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
Matthew 12:31
So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
Romans 5:15
But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.
Romans 5:16
And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.
Romans 5:17
For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:19
Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.
Romans 11:28
As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
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Hosea 2:2
Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;
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Ruth 1:2
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.
Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
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 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:30
For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.
Ezekiel 18:31
Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
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Job 10:4
Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?
Matthew 19:23
And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 20:15
Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew 20:23
They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.
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Matthew 25:9
But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves.
Matthew 25:10
And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.
Matthew 25:11
After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.
Matthew 25:12
But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.
Matthew 25:13
Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.
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Mark 7:26
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.
Mark 7:27
And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.
Mark 7:28
But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.
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Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.
2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.
Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
Psalms 71:15
My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.
Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Proverbs 8:31
Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
John 4:48
Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
1 Corinthians 1:22
Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
1 Corinthians 1:23
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;
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Luke 15:7
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.
Luke 15:8
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?
Luke 15:9
And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.
Luke 15:10
Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.
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Luke 16:2
And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
Luke 19:25
And they say to him, Lord, he has ten pounds.
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2 Chronicles 33:18
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.
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.
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.
Luke 23:42
And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.
Luke 23:43
And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
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;
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
Revelation 3:18
If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
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Luke 23:18
But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.
Luke 23:19
Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.
Luke 23:20
And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.
Luke 23:21
But crying out they said, To the cross with him!
Luke 23:22
And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.
Luke 23:23
But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.
Luke 23:24
And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.
Luke 23:25
And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.
Romans 4:5
But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
James 5:6
You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
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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.
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Romans 9:16
So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.
Romans 9:17
For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.
Romans 9:18
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
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Job 11:9
Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
Job 11:12
And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
Psalms 104:24
O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.
Proverbs 4:27
Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
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.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.
Ephesians 1:9
Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands
Colossians 2:3
In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.
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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:
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 3:3
Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
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Numbers 14:17
So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
Psalms 52:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
Ephesians 1:8
Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
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 3:20
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
Hebrews 1:1
In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;
Hebrews 8:12
And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;
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Psalms 139:18
If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
Proverbs 8:12
I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.
Proverbs 8:22
The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Ephesians 3:9
And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;
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Psalms 57:10
For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.
Proverbs 25:3
The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
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.
Ezekiel 16:62
And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
Philippians 2:6
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
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 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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Ezekiel 10:14
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a winged one, and the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Mark 8:31
And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.
Mark 8:33
But he, turning about, and seeing his disciples, said sharply to Peter, Get out of my way, Satan: for your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.
Mark 13:7
And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.
Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?
Luke 24:44
And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
Revelation 1:1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John;
Revelation 4:1
After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come.
Revelation 20:3
And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
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