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1 Corinthians 4:12
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

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Genesis 45:15
Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.

Numbers 12:13
And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

1 Samuel 24:17
And he said to David, You are right and I am wrong: for you have given me back good, but I have given you evil.

Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

Psalms 109:4
For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

Luke 22:51
But Jesus, answering, said, Put up with this, at least. And touching his ear, he made it well.

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Genesis 50:17
You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

Psalms 106:16
They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

Psalms 106:17
The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.

Psalms 106:18
And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.

Luke 23:47
And when the captain saw what was done, he gave praise to God, saying, Without doubt this was an upright man.

Luke 23:48
And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.

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Numbers 12:7
My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:

Luke 16:10
He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.

Acts 16:15
And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

Galatians 3:9
So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

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:

Ephesians 6:21
But so that you may have knowledge of my business, and how I am, Tychicus, the well-loved brother and tested servant in the Lord, will give you news of all things:

Colossians 1:2
To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Colossians 1:7
As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,

Revelation 2:13
I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

Revelation 17:14
These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.

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Joshua 6:11
So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.

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Judges 7:13
When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Judges 7:14
And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.

Judges 7:16
Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

Judges 7:17
And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.

Judges 7:18
At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Judges 7:19
So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.

Judges 7:20
So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Lamentations 4:2
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

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1 Samuel 26:11
Never will my hand be stretched out against the man marked with the holy oil; but take the spear which is by his head and the vessel of water, and let us go.

2 Kings 6:22
But he said in answer, You are not to put them to death; have you any right to put to death those whom you have not taken prisoner with your sword and your bow? put bread and water before them, so that they may have food and drink and go to their master.

Job 31:29
If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

Job 31:30
(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

Proverbs 25:21
If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

James 3:9
With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.

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2 Samuel 6:20
Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!

Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.

Nehemiah 4:4
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

Psalms 89:51
The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

Matthew 8:20
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.

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

John 13:6
So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

Philippians 2:7
But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

1 Peter 4:4
And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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2 Samuel 13:39
And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.

2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

1 Corinthians 4:15
For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

1 Corinthians 4:16
So my desire is that you take me as your example.

2 Corinthians 6:12
It is not our feelings to you which are narrow, but yours to us.

2 Corinthians 6:13
Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.

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2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:

2 Samuel 17:3
And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

2 Samuel 17:4
And the saying was pleasing to Absalom and to the responsible men of Israel.

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1 Kings 13:14
And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Jeremiah 15:10
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

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.

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Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

Psalms 38:1
A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory. O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

Psalms 38:3
My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

Psalms 38:5
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

Psalms 38:6
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

Psalms 38:7
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

Psalms 42:7
Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

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

Isaiah 1:6
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

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Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Psalms 77:3
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

Psalms 77:4
You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

Song of Solomon 5:7
The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

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Psalms 106:19
They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.

Psalms 106:20
And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

Psalms 106:21
They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

Psalms 106:22
Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:23
And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

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Proverbs 17:13
If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

Proverbs 20:22
Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.

Matthew 5:40
And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.

Matthew 5:41
And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.

Luke 6:29
If a man gives you a blow on one side of your face, then let the other side be turned to him; from him who takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe.

Romans 12:17
Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.

1 Corinthians 6:7
More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

2 Corinthians 13:7
Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.

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Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

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Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

Habakkuk 3:18
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

Habakkuk 3:19
The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.

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Isaiah 20:3
And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,

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.

Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

Matthew 24:9
Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Mark 9:49
Everyone will be salted with fire.

Acts 9:16
For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

Hebrews 11:26
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

James 5:10
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.

James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

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.

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.

1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

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Matthew 7:22
A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3
And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

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Matthew 10:38
And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

Mark 8:34
And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.

Mark 10:30
Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.

Romans 6:6
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

1 Peter 4:1
So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

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Matthew 18:15
And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

Matthew 18:16
But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

Matthew 18:17
And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

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Job 16:4
It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

Psalms 69:19
You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Matthew 27:40
You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Matthew 27:41
In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

Matthew 27:42
A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.

Matthew 27:43
He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.

Matthew 27:44
And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.

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

Mark 9:1
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There are some here who will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God come with power.

John 19:17
And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):

Romans 8:13
For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

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.

Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

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Proverbs 23:9
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

Luke 2:34
And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;

Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

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 9:40
These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

John 10:20
And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?

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 17:32
Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

Acts 26:24
And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

1 Corinthians 1:22
Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:

2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

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John 7:47
Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

John 7:48
Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

John 7:49
But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

John 7:50
Nicodemus--he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them,

John 7:51
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

John 7:52
This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

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John 9:30
The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

John 9:31
We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

John 9:32
In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

John 9:33
If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

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Acts 17:4
And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.

Acts 17:5
But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.

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 17:8
And hearing these things the people and the rulers of the town were troubled.

Acts 17:9
And having made Jason and the others give an undertaking to keep the peace, they let them go.

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 21:28
Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.

Acts 24:5
For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:

1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

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Acts 19:8
And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God.

Acts 19:9
But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.

Acts 19:10
And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews.

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Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

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Acts 23:4
And those who were near said, Do you say such words against God's high priest?

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Romans 12:11
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

Titus 3:14
And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.

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Acts 26:25
Then Paul said, I am not off my head, most noble Festus, but my words are true and wise.

1 Corinthians 1:23
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;

1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 2:1
And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

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 2:16
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 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:10
In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

1 Corinthians 14:18
I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

2 Corinthians 6:6
In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

2 Corinthians 6:7
In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Galatians 4:11
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

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

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1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to take food and drink?

1 Corinthians 9:8
Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

1 Corinthians 9:9
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

1 Corinthians 9:10
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

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Acts 8:3
But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.

1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.

1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

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

2 Timothy 2:4
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

2 Timothy 2:5
And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.

2 Timothy 2:6
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

2 Timothy 2:7
Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.

2 Timothy 2:10
But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 4:6
For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.

Hebrews 10:32
But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

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1 Corinthians 15:30
And why are we in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:32
If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

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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.

1 Corinthians 9:17
But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

2 Corinthians 5:11
Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

2 Corinthians 11:1
Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

2 Corinthians 12:16
But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

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.

1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:

1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

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

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Ezekiel 14:8
And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 8:13
And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.

2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

Galatians 4:13
But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

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

Philippians 4:13
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

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Galatians 5:9
A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

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Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.

Acts 5:40
And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.

Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

1 Corinthians 1:28
And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 6:10
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

Colossians 3:13
Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,

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2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

2 Corinthians 11:17
What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

2 Corinthians 11:19
For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

1 Thessalonians 2:6
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:11
Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

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Acts 20:23
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

2 Corinthians 4:12
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 3:4
And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.

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.

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1 Timothy 3:16
And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

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1 Corinthians 6:12
I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 6:13
Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Philippians 4:14
But you did well to have care for me in my need.

2 Timothy 2:8
Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

2 Timothy 4:5
But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

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Acts 18:1
After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.

Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

Acts 20:18
And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

Acts 20:19
Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

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

1 Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.

1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

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

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

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;

Jude 1:9
Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.

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Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

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

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

Matthew 10:21
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

John 15:20
Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

2 Timothy 1:12
And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 14:13
And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.

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

Matthew 10:23
But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

Luke 21:12
But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

2 Corinthians 4:18
While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Hebrews 10:34
For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 11:35
Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

Hebrews 11:38
Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

1 Peter 3:14
But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;

1 Peter 4:12
Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:

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