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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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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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.
Job 34:14
If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
Job 34:15
All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
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Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
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Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
Exodus 10:1
And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them:
Exodus 10:20
But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
Exodus 14:4
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.
Psalms 105:25
Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
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Exodus 9:17
Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?
1 Samuel 6:6
Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
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Exodus 33:19
And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.
Exodus 34:6
And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
Exodus 34:7
Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
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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Numbers 14:8
And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;
Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
Deuteronomy 7:8
But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:15
But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
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Numbers 21:23
And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
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Joshua 11:19
Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.
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Judges 11:20
But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.
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Job 9:3
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Job 9:14
How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Job 9:15
Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
Job 9:19
If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Job 40:5
I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
Jeremiah 49:19
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
Lamentations 3:39
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
Mark 14:21
The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
Numbers 23:20
See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.
Job 23:14
For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
Psalms 76:10
The...will give you praise; the rest of...
Proverbs 19:21
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Acts 4:27
For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Acts 20:27
For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.
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Psalms 115:3
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
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Psalms 130:3
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
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.
Luke 1:78
Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
Romans 2:1
So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
Romans 3:6
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
Romans 3:9
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
Romans 3:27
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 4:1
What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?
Romans 6:1
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
Romans 7:7
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
1 Corinthians 10:15
What I am saying is for wise men, do you be the judges of it.
2 Timothy 1:18
(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.
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Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
John 12:40
He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
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Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
John 5:40
And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
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Jeremiah 18:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jeremiah 18:2
Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.
Jeremiah 18:3
Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.
Jeremiah 18:4
And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 18:7
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 18:8
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
Jeremiah 18:9
And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;
Jeremiah 18:10
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
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Jeremiah 20:8
For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.
John 6:66
Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.
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1 Kings 8:18
But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;
Ezekiel 16:6
And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;
Ezekiel 16:7
And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.
Matthew 19:30
But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.
Acts 9:6
But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.
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 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;
Galatians 1:15
But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
Galatians 1:16
To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,
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Job 1:22
In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
Job 34:10
Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
Job 34:11
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
Job 34:17
How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
Job 34:18
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Job 34:23
For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
Job 35:2
Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
Job 36:22
Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
Job 36:23
Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
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Hosea 4:4
Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
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Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
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Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
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Mark 7:2
And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
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Luke 21:15
For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.
Acts 7:10
And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 13:8
But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.
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Exodus 8:32
But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.
Exodus 11:7
But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
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?
John 15:22
If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
1 Timothy 2:4
Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
1 Peter 1:10
For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
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.
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Acts 13:27
For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.
Acts 13:28
And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.
Acts 13:29
And when they had done all the things said in the Writings about him, they took him down from the tree, and put him in the place of the dead.
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Acts 27:43
But the captain, desiring to keep Paul safe, kept them from their purpose, and gave orders that those who had knowledge of swimming were to go off the ship and get first to land:
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
Matthew 20:15
Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
Romans 8:18
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Romans 9:11
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
Romans 9:24
Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
Romans 11:5
In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
Romans 11:6
But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
Ephesians 1:9
Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands
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Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Luke 1:72
To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,
Romans 3:8
Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
Romans 3:23
For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
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 8:31
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
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:
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.
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Romans 6:15
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
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Isaiah 61:9
And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.
Romans 9:2
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
Romans 9:26
And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
Romans 10:20
And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.
Romans 11:4
But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
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Isaiah 45:11
The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
Romans 11:35
Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:
Colossians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 4:19
For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.
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1 Corinthians 15:12
Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:34
Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
1 Corinthians 15:36
Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:
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Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
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James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
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James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
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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.
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1 Peter 2:8
And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
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