Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
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Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
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Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.
Psalms 104:31
Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:
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Genesis 6:1
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
Genesis 26:8
And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
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Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
Genesis 24:3
And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:5
And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?
Genesis 24:58
And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.
Genesis 24:59
So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.
Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Genesis 24:61
So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
Genesis 24:63
And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.
Genesis 24:64
And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel,
Genesis 24:65
And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.
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Genesis 24:22
And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
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Genesis 24:53
Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.
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Genesis 24:66
Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
Titus 1:4
To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
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Genesis 34:19
And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
Esther 2:14
In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again.
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.
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Numbers 14:8
And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
Psalms 22:8
He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
Psalms 147:10
He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Isaiah 13:18
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Jeremiah 18:21
For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
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Deuteronomy 21:13
And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.
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Deuteronomy 21:14
But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
Deuteronomy 24:1
If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.
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1 Kings 14:22
And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
Psalms 78:58
They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?
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Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 2:5
And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
Nehemiah 2:6
And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.
Nehemiah 2:7
Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;
Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 2:9
Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
Ezekiel 28:24
And there will no longer be a plant with sharp points wounding the children of Israel, or a thorn troubling them among any who are round about them, who put shame on them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
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Psalms 91:14
Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
Psalms 91:15
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Psalms 91:16
With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
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Psalms 106:39
So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,
Hosea 4:12
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
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Job 14:15
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Proverbs 31:28
Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,
Song of Solomon 7:1
How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
Song of Solomon 7:2
Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
Song of Solomon 7:3
Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
Song of Solomon 7:4
Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
Song of Solomon 7:5
Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
Song of Solomon 7:7
You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
Song of Solomon 7:8
I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
Song of Solomon 7:9
And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
Song of Solomon 7:10
I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
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Psalms 45:17
I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.
Song of Solomon 1:1
The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.
Song of Solomon 1:3
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 1:6
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
Song of Solomon 1:7
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
Song of Solomon 1:8
If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
Song of Solomon 1:16
See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
Song of Solomon 2:14
O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
Isaiah 50:2
Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
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Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
Song of Solomon 4:7
You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
Song of Solomon 4:8
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
Song of Solomon 4:9
You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
Song of Solomon 8:4
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
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Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
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Isaiah 10:3
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
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Isaiah 22:2
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Isaiah 32:14
For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
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Isaiah 49:19
For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
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 51:17
Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
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:
Isaiah 52:1
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Isaiah 66:7
Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.
Isaiah 66:9
Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Galatians 4:21
Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
Galatians 4:27
For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.
Revelation 12:2
And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
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Isaiah 3:17
The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
Isaiah 6:8
And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.
Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
Isaiah 43:5
Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
Isaiah 64:4
The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ...any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Jeremiah 33:16
In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.
Matthew 18:13
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.
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 3:12
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
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Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:37
See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Jeremiah 32:42
For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.
Ezekiel 36:24
For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.
Ezekiel 36:28
So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
Hosea 2:23
And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
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Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
Jeremiah 7:34
And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Jeremiah 16:9
For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 25:10
And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
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.
Jeremiah 33:11
Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.
Revelation 18:23
And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.
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Ezekiel 16:4
As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.
Ezekiel 16:5
No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.
Ezekiel 16:6
And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;
Ezekiel 16:7
And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.
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Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
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Psalms 19:5
Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.
Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
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Mark 2:18
And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
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Isaiah 49:20
The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
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 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 54:4
Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
Isaiah 60:1
Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
Isaiah 60:4
Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.
Isaiah 60:9
Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
Isaiah 60:19
The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
Isaiah 66:8
When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.
Luke 15:22
But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
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John 4:35
You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
John 4:36
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
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Isaiah 35:1
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
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 49:13
Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.
Jeremiah 3:22
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Zephaniah 3:14
Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.
John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
1 Corinthians 7:34
And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
James 2:7
Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
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.
Revelation 11:15
And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
Revelation 14:3
And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.
Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
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John 13:4
Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.
John 13:5
Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
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Acts 2:19
And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:
Acts 3:3
He then, seeing Peter and John going into the Temple, made a request to them.
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Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?
Luke 12:37
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.
Luke 12:38
And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants.
John 15:9
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
John 15:10
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
Acts 11:26
And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.
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Esther 6:6
So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, Whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honouring?
Psalms 117:2
For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Matthew 1:23
See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
Matthew 25:1
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
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 5:23
So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
John 12:26
If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.
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),
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
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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Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,
Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Revelation 22:9
And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.
Revelation 22:10
And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.
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Proverbs 5:18
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Proverbs 5:19
As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:24
And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.
Ephesians 5:28
Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are parts of his body.
Ephesians 5:31
For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
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Deuteronomy 33:27
The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Isaiah 7:14
For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
Isaiah 42:1
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
Isaiah 43:7
Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.
Isaiah 63:19
We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
Zechariah 9:17
For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
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.
John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
John 16:27
For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
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