Jeremiah 7:23
But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
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Jeremiah 7:23
But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
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Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
Genesis 2:17
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
Genesis 3:8
And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.
Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
Deuteronomy 7:3
Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
Deuteronomy 7:4
For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
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Exodus 16:8
And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
Exodus 23:22
But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
Exodus 24:3
Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.
Deuteronomy 4:10
That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.
Deuteronomy 11:28
And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.
Deuteronomy 28:1
Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:
Joshua 24:24
And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Jeremiah 11:5
So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
Jeremiah 11:6
And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.
Luke 11:28
But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
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.
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Deuteronomy 17:3
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:5
And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
Jeremiah 32:35
And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.
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Exodus 29:46
And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.
Leviticus 11:45
For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.
Deuteronomy 27:9
Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God.
1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.
2 Samuel 7:23
And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?
2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people.
1 Chronicles 17:22
For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.
Isaiah 51:4
Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
Ezekiel 37:28
And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.
Zechariah 2:11
And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
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Leviticus 26:3
If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
Leviticus 26:16
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 6:2
So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
Deuteronomy 13:4
But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.
Deuteronomy 28:45
And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:
Psalms 50:5
Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
Psalms 128:2
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
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Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Psalms 81:14
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Psalms 81:15
The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
Psalms 81:16
I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
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Psalms 106:12
Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise.
Psalms 106:13
But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
Jeremiah 2:11
Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
Jeremiah 2:12
Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
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Job 36:11
If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
Psalms 112:1
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Psalms 119:21
Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.
John 13:17
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
John 14:15
If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?
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.
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:
Romans 6:17
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
1 John 5:2
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
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Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Proverbs 1:30
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Proverbs 29:1
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
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.
Jeremiah 35:14
The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.
Jeremiah 44:6
Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.
Hosea 11:2
When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
Matthew 22:3
And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
Acts 3:14
But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,
Acts 3:15
And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.
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2 Kings 17:13
And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Nehemiah 9:30
Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Proverbs 1:29
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Jeremiah 2:7
And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.
Jeremiah 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 11:8
But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.
Jeremiah 13:11
For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.
Jeremiah 25:4
And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;
Jeremiah 26:4
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,
Jeremiah 26:5
And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;
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Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Hebrews 10:12
But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:17
And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
Hebrews 10:18
Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
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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;
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
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.
Jeremiah 7:3
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
Jeremiah 7:12
But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
Jeremiah 8:16
The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.
Matthew 5:24
While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.
Luke 14:12
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
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Isaiah 30:21
And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
John 12:35
Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
Colossians 2:6
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
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Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
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;
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
Matthew 6:1
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:2
When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
Matthew 6:16
And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Jeremiah 3:25
Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 17:23
But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.
Jeremiah 22:21
My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.
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2 Chronicles 35:9
And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.
Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Proverbs 1:26
So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Proverbs 1:27
When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Jeremiah 26:6
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah 29:19
Because they have not given ear to my words, says the Lord, when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 44:4
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.
Jeremiah 44:5
But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.
Hosea 11:7
My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.
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 7:11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
Acts 2:40
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.
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Leviticus 1:2
Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.
Jeremiah 31:31
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:
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 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hebrews 8:13
When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
Hebrews 10:8
After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
Hebrews 10:9
Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
Hebrews 10:10
By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
Hebrews 10:11
And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
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Amos 6:7
So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.
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Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
Amos 6:8
The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.
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Psalms 125:5
But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
Jeremiah 18:10
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
Ezekiel 45:20
And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.
Zephaniah 1:6
And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
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Jeremiah 31:14
I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:11
So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
Zechariah 6:15
And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
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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.
Habakkuk 2:7
Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:16
And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
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?
Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
Ezekiel 13:9
And my hand will be against the prophets who see visions without substance and who make false use of secret arts: they will not be in the secret of my people, and they will not be recorded in the list of the children of Israel, and they will not come into the land of Israel; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
Malachi 1:10
If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Malachi 2:13
And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
Matthew 12:7
But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
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Matthew 19:6
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
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Exodus 29:45
Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.
Leviticus 26:11
And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.
Numbers 15:41
I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 29:13
And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Isaiah 41:10
Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
Ezekiel 34:24
And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
Ezekiel 37:23
And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 37:27
And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
Zechariah 2:10
Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Revelation 7:15
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
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Mark 10:9
Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.
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Job 22:2
Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
Job 35:6
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
Job 35:7
If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
Psalms 16:2
O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.
Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
Psalms 50:13
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
Acts 17:25
And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
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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 103:18
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Isaiah 2:5
O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
Luke 10:28
And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.
John 15:11
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.
John 15:12
This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.
John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
Hebrews 5:9
And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;
1 John 3:24
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
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Exodus 3:6
And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.
Exodus 15:25
And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;
Psalms 68:18
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
Psalms 68:19
Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)
Psalms 68:20
Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.
Isaiah 12:2
See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
Ezekiel 36:38
Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
Joel 2:27
And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
Revelation 21:3
And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:7
He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
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