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Acts 20:21
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Acts 20:21
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Leviticus 11:9
These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

Deuteronomy 14:9
And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

Deuteronomy 14:10
But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.

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Deuteronomy 30:18
I give witness against you this day that destruction will certainly be your fate, and your days will be cut short in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage on the other side of Jordan.

Deuteronomy 30:19
Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

Deuteronomy 31:28
Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

Psalms 81:9
There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

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Deuteronomy 32:46
Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Isaiah 55:3
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

Isaiah 55:4
See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Ezekiel 18:21
But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.

Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

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 3:32
He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

John 3:33
He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

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Joshua 23:2
Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:

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Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.

1 Chronicles 28:1
And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.

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1 Samuel 7:5
Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you.

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1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.

Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

Acts 11:21
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

Romans 15:9
And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.

Romans 16:26
But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

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,

Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

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 11:6
And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

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2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Nehemiah 9:34
And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

Amos 3:13
Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;

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Nehemiah 13:21
Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.

Revelation 22:18
For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:

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Psalms 106:4
Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

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Psalms 106:5
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.

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Proverbs 14:5
A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

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Proverbs 14:25
A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

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Ezekiel 2:7
And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

Ezekiel 3:17
Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

Ezekiel 3:18
When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

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Hosea 8:14
For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

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Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

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

Matthew 5:6
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Matthew 5:7
Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

Matthew 5:8
Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

Matthew 5:9
Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

Matthew 5:11
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

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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.

Luke 10:12
I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

Luke 10:13
A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.

Luke 10:14
But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

Luke 11:32
The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.

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Matthew 13:3
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

Matthew 13:5
And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

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Matthew 21:28
But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Matthew 21:30
And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.

Mark 1:4
John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

Acts 13:24
For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

Acts 19:4
And Paul said, John gave a baptism which goes with a change of heart, saying to the people that they were to have faith in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.

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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Mark 2:17
And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.

Luke 5:32
I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

Luke 7:47
And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

Acts 13:38
And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

Titus 3:6
Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 6:9
But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

Hebrews 11:13
All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

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.

1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

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Luke 7:37
And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

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Luke 7:38
And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

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Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

Luke 15:17
But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

Luke 15:19
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.

Luke 15:20
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

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.

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:

Luke 15:23
And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.

Luke 15:24
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

Luke 15:32
But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

2 Corinthians 7:6
But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

2 Corinthians 7:7
And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.

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Luke 16:28
For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.

Luke 16:31
And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

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Luke 24:44
And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.

Acts 1:8
But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Acts 4:10
Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

Acts 9:15
But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

Acts 13:5
And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

Acts 13:32
And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

Acts 13:33
Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

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 28:17
Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

Acts 28:19
But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

Romans 15:16
To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

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Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

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 4:10
In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

John 20:28
And Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God!

Romans 10:11
Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.

2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

Galatians 5:23
Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

1 Timothy 1:16
But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

2 Timothy 3:10
But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

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

Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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John 4:6
Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7
A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.

John 4:8
For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.

John 4:9
The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

John 4:32
But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

John 4:33
So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

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Matthew 10:7
And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.

Luke 9:60
But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:1
I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

Acts 1:3
And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God:

Acts 2:42
And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

Acts 8:12
But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.

Acts 10:36
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--

Acts 17:7
Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

Acts 17:31
Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

Colossians 1:25
Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

Hebrews 2:4
And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

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Isaiah 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

Acts 2:37
Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?

Acts 16:29
And he sent for lights and came rushing in and, shaking with fear, went down on his face before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16:32
And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

Acts 16:33
And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.

Acts 17:2
And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

Acts 17:10
And the brothers straight away sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea: and they, when they came there, went to the Synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 17:18
And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

Acts 18:23
And having been there for some time, he went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, making the disciples strong in the faith.

Acts 26:16
But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;

1 Timothy 1:11
Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

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Acts 4:33
And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

Acts 6:4
Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

Acts 10:39
And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.

Acts 10:40
On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

Acts 13:31
And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

Acts 17:1
Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Synagogue of the Jews:

Acts 17:17
So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and every day in the market-place with those who were there.

Acts 18:19
And they came down to Ephesus and he left them there: and he himself went into the Synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

Acts 19:13
But some of the Jews who went from place to place driving out evil spirits, took it on themselves to make use of the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, I give you orders, by Jesus, whom Paul is preaching.

Acts 28:16
And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.

Acts 28:30
And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,

1 Corinthians 15:15
Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

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Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

Matthew 17:5
While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

Romans 5:6
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

Romans 5:7
Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

Romans 5:8
But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Romans 5:20
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

2 Corinthians 5:20
So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

Galatians 2:16
Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

Galatians 2:20
I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Hebrews 5:9
And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

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Acts 9:27
But Barnabas took him to the Apostles and gave them an account of how he had seen the Lord on the road, and had given hearing to his words, and how at Damascus he had been preaching in the name of Jesus without fear.

Acts 20:36
And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.

Acts 21:23
Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath;

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 15:23
But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,

Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

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Mark 6:30
And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.

Romans 12:7
Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

Romans 12:8
He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.

Titus 2:6
To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded:

Titus 2:7
In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

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

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1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

1 Corinthians 2:4
And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

1 Corinthians 2:5
So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

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Galatians 1:11
Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

Galatians 1:12
For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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Acts 2:24
But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

Acts 9:22
But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 10:41
Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

Acts 13:30
But God gave him back from the dead:

Acts 14:2
But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.

Acts 18:13
Saying, This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the law.

Acts 19:26
And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

Acts 20:7
And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

Acts 26:23
That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

Acts 26:26
For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

Colossians 1:26
The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

1 Peter 1:21
Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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Luke 10:11
Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.

Acts 1:4
And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:

Acts 2:32
This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

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

Acts 9:20
And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

Acts 16:13
And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

Acts 17:3
Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Colossians 1:27
To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Colossians 4:17
Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.

Jude 1:3
My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

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Psalms 40:10
Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

Psalms 90:8
You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

Luke 18:13
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Luke 23:42
And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.

Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

Romans 1:17
For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

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?

1 Thessalonians 1:8
For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.

Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.

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2 Corinthians 1:13
For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:

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

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.

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1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

1 Timothy 4:2
Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

2 Peter 3:3
Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

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Isaiah 52:3
For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

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 6:40
This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

John 6:47
Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

John 11:26
And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

Romans 3:30
If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

2 Thessalonians 1:10
At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.

1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;

Titus 3:4
But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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Colossians 1:4
After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.

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Numbers 21:7
Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

Luke 19:10
For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

John 3:14
As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

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 3:17
God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

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;

Acts 13:39
And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

James 2:18
But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

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Matthew 7:24
Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

Matthew 7:25
And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

Ephesians 2:22
In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:6
Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

1 Peter 2:7
And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;

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Acts 7:59
And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

Acts 23:1
And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

1 Corinthians 13:13
But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 3:2
Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

1 Timothy 1:19
Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.

1 John 2:12
I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.

Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

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John 15:10
If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

1 John 3:23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

1 John 3:24
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

1 John 5:2
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

1 John 5:4
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

1 John 5:5
Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

Revelation 6:9
And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.

Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

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Revelation 22:19
And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.


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