John 1:5
And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
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John 1:5
And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
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Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Psalms 74:16
The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
Psalms 136:7
To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psalms 136:8
The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psalms 136:9
The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
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Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
John 20:22
And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:
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Exodus 25:31
And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.
Exodus 25:32
It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.
Exodus 25:33
Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.
Exodus 25:34
And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:
Exodus 25:35
And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.
Exodus 37:17
Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:
Exodus 37:18
It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;
Exodus 37:19
Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;
Exodus 37:20
And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower;
Exodus 37:21
And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.
Exodus 37:22
The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.
Exodus 37:23
And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold.
Exodus 37:24
A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.
Exodus 40:24
The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:
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Numbers 24:1
Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,
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Numbers 24:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.
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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.
Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
Jeremiah 5:21
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew 13:12
Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Matthew 13:15
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.
Matthew 13:16
But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.
John 12:37
But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:
John 12:38
So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?
John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
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2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.
Job 29:3
When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
Job 36:30
See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.
Psalms 18:28
You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
Psalms 118:27
The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.
Proverbs 4:18
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
Micah 7:8
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
Ephesians 5:9
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
Ephesians 5:10
Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:12
For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
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Job 24:14
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Job 24:15
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
Job 24:16
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
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Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Job 38:19
Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
Psalms 104:2
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalms 112:4
For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Psalms 119:105
NUN Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
Proverbs 6:23
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Zechariah 14:6
And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;
Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.
Ephesians 5:13
But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.
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.
Revelation 22:5
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to 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.
Proverbs 19:3
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
Matthew 4:15
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Mark 6:5
And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.
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Psalms 107:10
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Psalms 107:11
Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
Psalms 107:12
So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.
Psalms 107:13
Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.
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Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
Proverbs 2:13
Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Isaiah 59:9
For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Luke 22:53
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
John 9:4
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
John 11:9
Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.
John 11:10
But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
John 13:30
So Judas, having taken the bit of bread, straight away went out: and it was night.
1 John 1:6
If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
1 John 2:10
He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
1 John 2:11
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
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Isaiah 13:9
See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
Isaiah 34:4
And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
Ezekiel 32:7
And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.
Ezekiel 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.
Joel 2:31
The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.
Joel 3:15
The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.
Amos 8:9
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
Matthew 24:29
But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
Mark 13:24
But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,
Revelation 6:12
And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;
Revelation 8:12
And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.
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Jeremiah 29:12
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
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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.
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Mark 8:3
If I send them away to their houses with no food, they will be overcome by weariness on the way; and some of them have come from far.
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Mark 8:4
And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?
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Mark 13:25
And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.
Revelation 6:13
And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.
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John 5:14
After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
John 5:15
The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 9:23
That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.
John 14:14
If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.
John 15:7
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
John 16:24
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
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John 8:2
And early in the morning he came again into the Temple and all the people came to him and he was seated teaching them.
Acts 19:23
And about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.
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John 6:17
And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.
John 8:3
Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;
John 8:4
And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.
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John 3:11
Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.
John 5:16
And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:18
For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
John 6:66
Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.
John 8:40
But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.
John 8:48
The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?
John 8:52
The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
John 8:57
Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?
John 8:59
So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.
John 10:31
Then the Jews took up stones again to send at him.
John 10:33
This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.
John 10:39
Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.
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John 1:19
And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?
John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
John 7:1
After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.
John 7:30
Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
John 7:32
This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.
John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
John 8:45
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
John 9:22
They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.
John 10:41
And a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but everything John said of this man was true.
John 11:50
You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
John 11:57
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.
1 John 3:8
The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
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John 10:11
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
John 13:20
Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
John 17:9
My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours
John 17:11
And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.
Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
Romans 9:30
What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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John 19:1
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped with cords.
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John 1:30
This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
John 6:35
And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
John 20:31
But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
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Acts 17:22
And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.
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Ezekiel 11:20
So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
Matthew 16:16
And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
John 8:19
Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.
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 17:25
Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;
Acts 4:13
Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.
Romans 1:18
For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:17
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
Hebrews 12:14
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
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Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
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Ephesians 4:9
(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?
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Ephesians 4:10
He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
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Psalms 97:10
You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
Isaiah 5:20
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Micah 7:10
And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.
Matthew 5:5
Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
Romans 2:19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
Ephesians 5:15
Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;
Colossians 1:12
Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
Revelation 1:16
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.
Revelation 11:3
And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
Revelation 11:15
And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
John 6:44
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
John 7:33
Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.
John 16:3
They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
Romans 8:9
You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Ephesians 3:18
May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
Ephesians 6:12
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.
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Psalms 27:13
I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
John 9:6
Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,
John 9:39
And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.
2 Corinthians 4:1
For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:
2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
Ephesians 3:9
And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
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Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;
Luke 1:77
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,
John 1:29
The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 3:15
So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.
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 3:18
The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.
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 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
1 John 1:1
That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life
1 John 1:2
(And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);
1 John 1:3
We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:
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