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Matthew 18:4
Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

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Genesis 48:1
Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:9
And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing.

Genesis 48:10
Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.

Genesis 48:11
And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.

Genesis 48:12
Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

Genesis 48:13
Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him.

Genesis 48:14
And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older.

Genesis 48:15
And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

Genesis 48:16
The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

Genesis 48:17
Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

Genesis 48:18
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.

Genesis 48:19
But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

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Genesis 48:20
So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

1 Samuel 1:24
Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.

Psalms 115:14
May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

Psalms 115:15
May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

Mark 10:13
And they took to him little children, so that he might put his hands on them: and the disciples said sharp words to them.

Mark 10:16
And he took them in his arms, and gave them a blessing, putting his hands on them.

Acts 2:39
For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

1 Corinthians 7:14
For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.

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Exodus 10:3
Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

2 Chronicles 33:19
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.

2 Chronicles 33:23
He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

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Deuteronomy 5:25
Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

Deuteronomy 5:26
For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

Deuteronomy 5:27
Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.

Deuteronomy 5:28
Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said.

Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

2 Chronicles 30:12
And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind

Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

Acts 10:33
So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

Acts 17:12
And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.

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

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Deuteronomy 8:2
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

Deuteronomy 8:3
And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:16
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

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Judges 6:15
And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

1 Samuel 9:21
And Saul said, Am I not a man of Benjamin, the smallest of all the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of the families of Benjamin? why then do you say these words to me?

1 Samuel 10:22
So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.

1 Samuel 15:17
And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,

1 Kings 3:7
And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

Jeremiah 1:6
Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.

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.

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1 Chronicles 29:1
And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.

Job 32:6
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.

Job 32:7
I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

Job 32:8
But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 10:16
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

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Psalms 34:11
Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 4:1
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

Proverbs 7:24
So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

Proverbs 8:17
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

Proverbs 8:32
Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 22:6
If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

John 13:33
My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

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Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

Psalms 34:18
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

Psalms 73:16
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

Psalms 73:17
Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

Psalms 73:22
As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Proverbs 30:2
For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

Proverbs 30:3
I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

Isaiah 29:18
And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

Isaiah 29:19
And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 35:8
And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

Matthew 5:5
Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

Romans 10:14
But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?

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Proverbs 22:17
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Proverbs 22:18
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

Matthew 4:23
And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.

Luke 4:43
But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.

Luke 19:26
And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

Luke 24:27
And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.

Acts 18:26
And he was preaching in the Synagogue without fear. But Priscilla and Aquila, hearing his words, took him in, and gave him fuller teaching about the way of God.

Acts 28:23
And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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Jeremiah 19:10
Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,

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Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

Luke 1:51
With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.

Luke 1:52
He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.

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Matthew 8:5
And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,

Matthew 8:6
Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.

Mark 9:42
And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.

1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

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Matthew 10:40
He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.

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Matthew 10:41
He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.

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Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.

Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 11:11
Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

Romans 1:14
I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Romans 12:10
Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:13
And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

2 Peter 3:18
But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

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Matthew 11:20
Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.

Mark 9:5
And Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

Mark 10:43
But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:

Romans 12:3
But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

1 Corinthians 9:20
And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

1 Corinthians 9:21
To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

1 Corinthians 9:23
And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

3 John 1:10
So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

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Jeremiah 27:2
This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

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Matthew 17:27
But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

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Jeremiah 45:1
The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

Matthew 19:27
Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?

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

Matthew 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.

Matthew 20:24
And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.

Luke 9:45
But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

Luke 22:24
And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

Luke 22:25
And he said, The kings of the Gentiles are lords over them, and those who have authority are given names of honour.

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Matthew 17:24
And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

Matthew 22:21
They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.

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Matthew 23:19
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

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Luke 12:36
And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.

Luke 12:37
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.

Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?

Luke 12:43
Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.

Luke 12:44
Truly I say to you, he will put him in control of all his goods.

Luke 12:45
But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;

Luke 12:46
The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;

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Matthew 23:8
But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.

Matthew 23:9
And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:10
And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

John 13:12
Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?

John 13:13
You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

John 13:14
If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

John 13:15
I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.

John 13:16
Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

John 13:17
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

1 John 2:6
He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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Acts 20:34
You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

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

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1 Corinthians 13:5
Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

1 Corinthians 13:6
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

1 Corinthians 13:7
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

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Psalms 45:4
And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

1 Corinthians 14:36
What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

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2 Corinthians 11:5
For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

2 Corinthians 11:26
In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

2 Corinthians 11:27
In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

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Galatians 4:14
And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

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Philippians 1:7
So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:10
But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

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1 Corinthians 3:1
And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

Hebrews 5:12
And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Hebrews 5:13
For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

Hebrews 6:1
For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,

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Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.

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