Isaiah 64:5
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
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Isaiah 64:5
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
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Genesis 5:24
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
Genesis 15:1
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Genesis 32:1
And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,
Exodus 3:4
And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Exodus 3:15
And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Acts 10:3
He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
Acts 10:4
And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.
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Exodus 3:18
And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.
Exodus 4:24
Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.
Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.
Exodus 30:36
And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy.
Numbers 17:4
And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.
Numbers 23:3
Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.
Numbers 23:4
And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
Numbers 23:15
Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.
Numbers 23:16
And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
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Leviticus 15:33
And for her who has a flow of blood, and for any man or woman who has an unclean flow, and for him who has sex relations with a woman when she is unclean.
Isaiah 30:22
And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
Lamentations 1:17
Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.
Ezekiel 36:17
Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.
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Deuteronomy 8:3
And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.
Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
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 4:4
But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.
Romans 5:1
For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
Hebrews 12:10
For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
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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Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Psalms 21:2
You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)
Proverbs 17:22
A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
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Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
1 Kings 8:46
If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
1 Kings 8:48
And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:
1 Kings 8:49
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;
1 Kings 8:50
Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;
2 Chronicles 6:37
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
2 Chronicles 6:38
If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:
2 Chronicles 6:39
Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.
Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.
Nehemiah 1:8
Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:
Daniel 9:13
As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
Daniel 9:15
And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.
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Joshua 18:10
And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.
Ruth 2:22
And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.
1 Samuel 10:5
After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets:
Amos 5:19
As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
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1 Kings 2:25
And King Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he made an attack on him and put him to death.
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1 Chronicles 20:3
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
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.
Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Job 33:28
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
Luke 15:19
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.
2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
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Nehemiah 1:7
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 9:33
But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
Isaiah 59:12
For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
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Job 9:12
If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
Job 9:15
Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
Job 9:20
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Job 9:21
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
Job 10:15
That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
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Job 12:12
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
Job 12:18
He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
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Job 22:21
Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.
Psalms 12:1
For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David. Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
Isaiah 26:9
In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
Isaiah 45:24
Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.
Isaiah 54:7
For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.
Isaiah 62:6
I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
Isaiah 63:11
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
Hosea 14:9
He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
Romans 5:20
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
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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Job 23:10
For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
Job 23:12
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
Psalms 119:14
I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
Psalms 119:16
I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Psalms 119:24
Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
Psalms 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Psalms 119:121
AIN I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
Psalms 119:143
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Jeremiah 15:16
But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
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Job 22:5
Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Proverbs 21:15
It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
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Job 30:22
Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
Job 32:21
Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.
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Job 33:19
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
Job 33:20
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
Job 33:21
His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...
Job 33:22
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
Job 33:23
If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;
Job 33:24
And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:
Job 33:25
Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;
Job 33:26
He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;
Psalms 71:20
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
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Numbers 36:13
These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.
Psalms 18:22
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
Psalms 18:23
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
Psalms 44:17
All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.
Psalms 44:18
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
Psalms 65:6
The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:
Proverbs 14:14
He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
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Psalms 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
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 63:9
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
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.
Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
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.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
Hebrews 4:16
Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.
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 22:14
A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
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Exodus 20:24
Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.
Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
Deuteronomy 12:18
But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
Deuteronomy 16:15
Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Nehemiah 8:12
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Psalms 37:4
So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Psalms 43:4
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
Philippians 4:9
The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
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Psalms 78:42
They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;
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Psalms 90:7
We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Psalms 90:8
You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
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Psalms 100:2
Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
Ecclesiastes 5:20
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Ecclesiastes 9:8
Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.
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.
Habakkuk 3:18
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
Luke 11:41
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
1 Thessalonians 5:16
Have joy at all times.
1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;
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Leviticus 13:45
And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.
Nehemiah 9:13
And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Psalms 119:25
DALETH My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.
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.
Luke 5:8
But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.
Luke 7:6
And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:
Luke 17:10
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
Luke 18:12
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
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Psalms 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
Proverbs 30:2
For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
Proverbs 30:9
For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
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.
Romans 7:14
For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
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Isaiah 24:4
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Isaiah 34:4
And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
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Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
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Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Isaiah 33:17
Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
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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.
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Isaiah 40:8
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
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Isaiah 44:1
And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:
Isaiah 52:15
So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
Ezekiel 33:33
And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.
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Ecclesiastes 7:4
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
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.
John 12:38
So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?
Romans 10:16
But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?
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Isaiah 56:1
The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
Isaiah 56:2
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
Isaiah 56:3
And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah 56:4
For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
Isaiah 56:5
I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.
Isaiah 56:6
And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Isaiah 56:7
I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
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Isaiah 64:10
Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
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Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
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Deuteronomy 28:8
The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.
Deuteronomy 28:10
And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.
Deuteronomy 28:11
And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.
Deuteronomy 28:12
Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.
Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Psalms 4:7
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
Psalms 37:21
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
Isaiah 65:13
For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
Isaiah 65:14
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
Isaiah 65:21
And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
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Isaiah 65:23
Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
Romans 5:6
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
Romans 5:7
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.
Romans 5:9
Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
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Isaiah 66:10
Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
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.
Isaiah 66:13
As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 66:14
And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.
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Ezekiel 3:14
And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
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Ezekiel 28:18
By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.
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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.
Mark 4:12
So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.
2 Timothy 2:26
And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
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Psalms 103:9
His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psalms 119:44
So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;
Proverbs 15:9
The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.
Isaiah 27:4
My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
Isaiah 51:13
And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
Ezekiel 18:22
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.
Hosea 4:1
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
Micah 2:7
Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
Malachi 2:16
For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
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Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
Matthew 9:13
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
Matthew 18:17
And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
Luke 5:29
And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.
Luke 19:6
And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.
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Matthew 22:21
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
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Luke 1:74
That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,
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Luke 1:75
In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.
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Luke 23:40
But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,
Luke 23:41
And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.
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.
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Matthew 28:9
And on the way, Jesus came to them, saying, Be glad. And they came and put their hands on his feet, and gave him worship.
Mark 16:9
Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.
Mark 16:10
She went and gave news of it to those who had been with him, while they were sorrowing and weeping.
John 20:14
And then looking round, she saw Jesus there, but had no idea that it was Jesus.
John 20:15
Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here, say where you have put him and I will take him away.
John 20:16
Jesus said to her, Mary! Turning, she said to him in Hebrew, Rabboni! (which is to say, Master).
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1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.
2 Chronicles 24:10
And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.
Acts 2:41
Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 2:47
Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.
Acts 16:15
And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.
Acts 16:34
And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.
Romans 12:8
He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.
2 Corinthians 8:2
How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.
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Philippians 3:13
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
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2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.
Psalms 80:7
Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalms 106:45
And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Isaiah 30:15
For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
Isaiah 63:16
For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Luke 15:21
And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
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