Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.
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Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.
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Genesis 6:11
And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
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Genesis 49:4
But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.
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Genesis 50:5
My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.
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Exodus 12:30
Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
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Leviticus 10:7
And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said.
Leviticus 21:12
He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.
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.
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Leviticus 15:7
And anyone touching the flesh of the unclean man is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 22:4
No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;
Numbers 19:11
Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:
Numbers 19:12
On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.
Numbers 19:13
Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.
Numbers 19:15
And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.
Numbers 19:16
And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
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1 Samuel 16:5
And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.
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2 Samuel 19:11
And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?
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1 Kings 22:22
And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
Matthew 8:32
And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea and came to their end in the water.
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Psalms 133:3
Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
John 5:21
In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
John 5:24
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
John 5:25
Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
Romans 6:11
Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 7:4
In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
1 Peter 4:6
For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.
1 John 3:14
We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.
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Proverbs 27:3
A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
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Leviticus 21:3
And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
Leviticus 21:4
But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.
Leviticus 21:5
They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.
Ezekiel 24:17
Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.
Ezekiel 24:18
So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.
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Hosea 13:1
When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
Romans 7:9
And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
Romans 7:10
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
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Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
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Matthew 5:5
Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 25:34
Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
Mark 1:20
And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.
Mark 10:1
And he got up, and went into the country of Judaea on the other side of Jordan: and great numbers of people came together to him again; and, as was his way, he gave them teaching.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,
Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
Hebrews 10:25
Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
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Matthew 8:3
And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.
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.
Matthew 9:6
But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.
Matthew 9:34
But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men.
Matthew 9:35
And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.
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Matthew 8:24
And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.
Matthew 8:25
And they came to him, and, awaking him, said, Help, Lord; destruction is near.
Matthew 8:27
And the men were full of wonder, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea do his orders?
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Matthew 12:46
While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.
Matthew 12:47
And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you.
Matthew 12:48
But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?
Matthew 12:49
And he put out his hand to his disciples and said, See, my mother and my brothers!
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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Matthew 20:3
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;
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Mark 8:34
And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.
John 10:27
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
John 21:19
Now this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me.
John 21:20
Then Peter, turning round, saw the disciple who was dear to Jesus coming after them--the disciple who was resting on his breast at the last meal, and said, Lord, who is it who will be false to you?
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Luke 1:79
To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
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Luke 9:57
And when they were on the way, a certain man said to him, I will come after you wherever you go.
Luke 9:61
And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house.
Acts 20:37
And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,
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Luke 24:5
And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?
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Ephesians 6:16
And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.
2 Timothy 2:4
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
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1 Peter 3:7
And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.
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