Luke 15:8
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?
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Luke 15:8
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?
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Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.
Jeremiah 31:15
So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.
Jeremiah 31:16
The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.
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Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Song of Solomon 5:1
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.
Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isaiah 65:19
And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
Jeremiah 33:9
And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?
Luke 15:22
But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
John 15:11
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
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2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
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.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:14
I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
Zechariah 4:10
For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
Luke 17:21
And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.
Luke 17:24
For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
Luke 17:32
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
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Song of Solomon 2:15
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.
Song of Solomon 8:11
Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.
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Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
Song of Solomon 3:4
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
Luke 2:46
And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.
2 Timothy 1:17
But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me
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Isaiah 14:23
And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 66:10
Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
Luke 1:58
And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.
Acts 11:23
Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:
1 Corinthians 12:26
And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Philippians 2:17
And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
Philippians 2:18
And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.
Philippians 2:28
I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.
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Psalms 147:11
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
Jeremiah 32:37
See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
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:
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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Psalms 119:176
I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
Isaiah 53:6
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 34:4
You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
Ezekiel 34:6
And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
Ezekiel 34:8
By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
Ezekiel 34:12
As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
Matthew 10:6
But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,
Matthew 18:12
What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?
Luke 15:3
And he made a story for them, saying,
John 10:16
And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.
John 11:52
And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
Ephesians 2:17
And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;
1 Peter 2:25
Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.
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Amos 9:9
For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.
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Zephaniah 1:6
And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
Matthew 12:44
Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean.
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Matthew 1:1
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Acts 11:18
And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.
Acts 13:48
And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.
Acts 13:52
And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 15:3
So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers.
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
Revelation 7:11
And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,
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Luke 22:55
And a fire was lighted in the middle of the open square, and they were seated together, and Peter was among them.
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John 4:3
He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.
John 4:35
You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
John 4:36
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
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Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
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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?
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1 Timothy 6:11
But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
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Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.
Luke 11:34
The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.
John 5:35
He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
Revelation 21:23
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
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