Haggai 2:17
And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.
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Haggai 2:17
And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.
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Genesis 26:12
Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
Leviticus 26:5
And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.
Leviticus 26:20
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
Deuteronomy 28:39
You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.
Psalms 107:37
And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Amos 9:13
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.
Amos 9:14
And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
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Genesis 41:25
Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Genesis 41:26
The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.
Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.
Genesis 41:28
As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.
Genesis 41:29
Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;
Genesis 41:30
And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;
Genesis 41:31
And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.
Genesis 41:32
And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.
Genesis 41:54
Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
2 Kings 8:1
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.
Psalms 105:16
And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
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Genesis 42:23
They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.
Genesis 42:27
Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag.
Isaiah 37:27
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
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Leviticus 26:41
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
Jeremiah 3:24
But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Micah 6:9
The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
Luke 15:17
But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!
2 Corinthians 13:5
Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?
Galatians 6:4
But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.
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Exodus 23:25
And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.
Deuteronomy 28:2
And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:3
A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:4
A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:5
A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Psalms 132:15
My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.
Psalms 147:14
He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
Matthew 14:19
And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.
Matthew 14:20
And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.
Matthew 14:21
And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
Luke 1:53
Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
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Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 28:16
You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.
Deuteronomy 28:17
A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Deuteronomy 28:18
A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:19
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
Joshua 7:12
For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.
Joshua 7:13
Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
Isaiah 43:28
Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
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Deuteronomy 28:27
The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.
Deuteronomy 28:41
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.
Psalms 78:46
He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.
Isaiah 5:24
For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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.
Isaiah 65:24
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
Hosea 2:15
And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Joel 2:20
I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.
Amos 4:10
I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Amos 4:11
And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Micah 6:15
You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
Zephaniah 1:13
And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.
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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 28:40
Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:42
All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.
2 Samuel 21:1
In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
Isaiah 62:9
But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.
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.
Joel 2:19
And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:
Joel 2:24
And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
Amos 4:7
And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
Malachi 3:12
And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
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1 Kings 5:9
My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.
1 Kings 5:10
So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;
1 Kings 5:11
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.
2 Chronicles 2:10
And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.
2 Chronicles 2:15
So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;
Ezra 3:7
And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.
Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
Acts 12:20
Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.
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2 Chronicles 28:23
For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.
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Ezra 2:65
As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.
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Ezra 4:1
Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;
Ezra 4:2
Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.
Ezra 4:3
But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God; we ourselves will do the work together for the Lord, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.
Ezra 4:5
And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.
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Nehemiah 7:67
As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.
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Job 34:27
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
Psalms 28:5
Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.
Psalms 107:43
Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:29
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Proverbs 1:30
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
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Psalms 65:9
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
Psalms 65:10
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
Psalms 65:11
The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
Psalms 65:12
Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.
Psalms 65:13
The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
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Ecclesiastes 5:6
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
1 Corinthians 3:13
Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
Zechariah 8:11
But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
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2 Kings 1:13
Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to you.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Jeremiah 6:29
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Jeremiah 6:30
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
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Isaiah 3:18
In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,
Isaiah 3:19
The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
Isaiah 3:20
The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,
Isaiah 3:21
The rings, and the nose-jewels,
Isaiah 3:22
The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,
Isaiah 3:23
The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.
Isaiah 3:24
And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
Isaiah 3:25
Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.
Isaiah 3:26
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Ezekiel 16:39
I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.
Ezekiel 23:26
And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.
Hosea 2:3
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
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Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Isaiah 5:5
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isaiah 5:10
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Jeremiah 8:13
I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.
Joel 1:7
By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Luke 13:6
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
Luke 13:7
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
Luke 13:8
And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:
Luke 13:9
And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
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Isaiah 5:25
For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
Isaiah 9:17
For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:20
On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Ezekiel 16:27
Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.
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Ezekiel 36:22
For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.
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Job 38:23
Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
Psalms 29:3
The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.
Psalms 78:48
Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.
Psalms 148:8
Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Ezekiel 13:11
Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.
Ezekiel 38:22
And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.
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Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Amos 7:4
This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
Matthew 8:8
And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.
Matthew 8:9
Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
Revelation 6:8
And I saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was Death; and Hell came after him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth.
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Amos 6:9
Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.
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Haggai 1:2
These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.
Haggai 1:3
Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
Haggai 1:13
Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.
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Acts 11:20
But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.
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Acts 11:21
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.
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Acts 14:15
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
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Acts 14:16
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
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Deuteronomy 16:10
Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:
Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.
2 Corinthians 8:10
And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
2 Corinthians 9:5
So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.
2 Corinthians 9:6
But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.
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Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
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Revelation 9:21
And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.
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