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Matthew 15:26
And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

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Matthew 15:26
And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

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Genesis 19:22
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

Genesis 32:24
Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

Genesis 32:27
Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

Isaiah 41:14
Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 45:11
The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

Hosea 12:3
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

Hosea 12:4
He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;

Romans 15:30
Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

Ephesians 6:18
With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

Colossians 2:1
For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;

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Genesis 22:14
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

Genesis 42:24
And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.

Genesis 43:29
Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.

Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.

Genesis 43:31
Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us.

Genesis 44:1
Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;

Genesis 44:2
And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.

Genesis 44:3
And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.

Genesis 44:4
And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

Genesis 44:5
Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.

Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.

Genesis 45:2
And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 45:3
And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.

Genesis 45:4
Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

Genesis 45:5
Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

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Genesis 32:10
I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

2 Kings 5:10
And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

Matthew 3:11
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

Matthew 3:14
But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?

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.

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 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.

John 1:27
It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.

John 13:6
So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

John 13:7
And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.

John 13:8
Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.

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Genesis 40:12
Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

Genesis 40:18
Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

Ezekiel 7:17
All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

Ezekiel 7:24
For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

Matthew 13:37
And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

Matthew 20:17
And when Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples on one side, and said to them,

Acts 10:17
Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,

Galatians 4:24
Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25
Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

Ephesians 5:9
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

Hebrews 7:2
And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

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Genesis 42:7
And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

Genesis 42:12
And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

Genesis 42:15
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

Genesis 42:17
So he put them in prison for three days.

Genesis 42:19
If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

Genesis 42:20
And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

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Exodus 4:22
And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Deuteronomy 32:9
For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

Acts 10:12
In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.

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Exodus 22:31
You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

Deuteronomy 23:18
Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

Psalms 22:20
Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

Ecclesiastes 9:4
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

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Numbers 14:13
And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

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Numbers 14:14
And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Joshua 9:24
And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

Joshua 9:25
And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

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Ruth 2:10
Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?

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.

Isaiah 56:8
The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those of Israel who have come back.

Luke 17:16
And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.

Luke 17:17
And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?

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1 Samuel 17:42
And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking.

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1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.

1 Samuel 24:15
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.

1 Samuel 26:20
Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.

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1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

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1 Kings 22:38
And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

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Job 13:24
Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

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Job 19:11
His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

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Proverbs 9:7
He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.

Proverbs 9:8
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.

Proverbs 23:9
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

Matthew 10:14
And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.

Matthew 10:15
Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

Hebrews 6:6
And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

Hebrews 10:29
But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

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Psalms 30:7
Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

Song of Solomon 5:6
I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.

Isaiah 8:17
And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

Isaiah 12:1
And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.

Isaiah 50:2
Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

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.

Hosea 5:6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

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.

Mark 7:24
And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.

Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

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Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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.

Psalms 81:10
I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

Psalms 81:16
I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

Matthew 7:8
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

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.

John 2:2
And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.

John 3:8
The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

John 3:9
And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?

John 3:10
And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

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Psalms 80:4
O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

Psalms 85:5
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

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.

Isaiah 58:9
Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;

Mark 2:27
And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

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Isaiah 55:2
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

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.

Matthew 15:2
Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Matthew 15:13
But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

Matthew 16:6
And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 26:26
And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

Luke 24:30
And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them.

John 6:34
Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

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Matthew 15:30
And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

Matthew 20:34
And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.

Mark 5:19
And he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.

Mark 7:33
And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;

Mark 9:22
And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.

Luke 7:13
And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

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Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

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Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.

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Acts 3:26
To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

Acts 13:47
For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

Acts 18:6
And when they put themselves against him, and said evil words, he said, shaking his clothing, Your blood be on your heads, I am clean: from now I will go to the Gentiles.

Acts 28:25
And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Acts 28:28
Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.

Romans 11:12
Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

Romans 11:13
But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

Romans 11:14
If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

Romans 11:15
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

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Luke 7:8
For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; 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.

Acts 9:11
And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;

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Luke 24:47
And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

John 4:22
You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

Acts 13:42
And when they went out, they made a request that these words might be said to them again on the Sabbath after.

Acts 22:22
And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.

Acts 26:20
But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

Romans 11:11
So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

Romans 11:22
See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

Romans 15:8
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

Ephesians 1:13
In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

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Philippians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:3
I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

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Matthew 8:10
And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

Matthew 8:12
But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

Matthew 19:30
But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.

Galatians 2:15
We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

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,

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Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

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Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 2:13
Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

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Psalms 84:10
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

1 Peter 5:6
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

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Revelation 1:20
The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.


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