Colossians 1:6
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
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Colossians 1:6
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
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Genesis 6:1
And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,
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Genesis 6:7
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
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Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
Isaiah 27:13
And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Isaiah 43:6
I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
Isaiah 54:3
For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.
Isaiah 66:18
And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.
Isaiah 66:20
And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
Mark 13:27
And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.
Luke 13:29
And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God.
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Exodus 28:34
A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe.
Psalms 89:15
Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 4:13
The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
Song of Solomon 6:11
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
Song of Solomon 8:2
I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
Jeremiah 15:16
But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
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Ezra 5:2
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, got up and made a start at building the house of God at Jerusalem: and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.
Haggai 1:14
And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.
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Proverbs 28:28
When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.
Isaiah 54:14
All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
Isaiah 54:15
See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.
Isaiah 54:16
See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Daniel 2:24
For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.
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Song of Solomon 1:3
Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
2 Corinthians 2:14
But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
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Song of Solomon 4:3
Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
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Song of Solomon 6:6
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
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Song of Solomon 4:2
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
Song of Solomon 6:7
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 92:12
The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
Psalms 92:13
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.
Psalms 92:15
For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 60:21
Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
Isaiah 61:3
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Ezekiel 47:12
And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.
Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.
John 12:24
Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.
John 15:6
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
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Isaiah 41:10
Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
Isaiah 41:11
Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.
Isaiah 41:12
You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.
Isaiah 41:13
For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.
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Psalms 3:8
Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)
Psalms 19:4
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
Psalms 45:16
Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.
Isaiah 49:6
It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
Malachi 1:11
For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
Acts 5:14
And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
Acts 28:28
Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.
Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
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.
2 Corinthians 10:14
For we have no need to make ourselves seem more than we are, as if our authority did not come as far as to you: for we came even as far as you with the good news of Christ:
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
Revelation 7:10
Saying with a loud voice, Salvation to our God who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb.
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Isaiah 52:9
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 55:12
For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
Isaiah 55:13
In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.
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Ezekiel 47:4
And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.
Acts 16:17
She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.
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.
Acts 19:11
And God did special works of power by the hands of Paul:
Acts 19:12
So that bits of linen and clothing from his body were taken to people who were ill, and their diseases went away from them and the evil spirits went out.
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 19:14
And there were seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew and a chief priest, who did this.
Acts 19:15
And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, I have knowledge of Jesus, and of Paul, but who are you?
Acts 19:16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them, was stronger than the two of them, and overcame them, so that they went running from that house, wounded and without their clothing.
Acts 19:17
And this came to the ears of all those, Jews and Greeks, who were living at Ephesus; and fear came on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was made great.
Acts 19:18
And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts.
Acts 19:19
And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.
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Haggai 1:12
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.
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Matthew 5:16
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 16:18
And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
Acts 11:18
And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.
Acts 11:21
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Thessalonians 1:12
So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:15
Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.
Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:12
Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.
1 Peter 4:10
Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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Matthew 13:32
Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.
Luke 13:19
It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.
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Mark 4:26
And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,
Mark 4:27
And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.
Mark 4:28
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
Mark 4:29
But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.
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Luke 13:6
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
Luke 13:7
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
Luke 13:8
And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:
Luke 13:9
And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
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John 1:3
All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
2 Timothy 3:1
But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.
Hebrews 1:2
But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
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John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
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John 6:45
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
Acts 14:27
And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.
Romans 10:11
Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.
Romans 10:16
But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?
Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
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.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;
2 Peter 1:9
For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
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John 1:12
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
John 17:19
And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
Romans 6:18
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
Ephesians 1:5
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
Ephesians 4:23
And be made new in the spirit of your mind,
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
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:
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.
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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Mark 16:17
And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages;
Mark 16:18
They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.
Mark 16:19
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand 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 1:2
Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:
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Acts 12:16
But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.
Acts 12:17
But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.
Acts 12:20
Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.
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Matthew 3:5
Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;
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 13:10
O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?
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.
Ephesians 2:17
And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;
Ephesians 3:5
Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
Colossians 1:13
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
Colossians 1:21
And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
Titus 3:4
But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,
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,
Titus 3:6
Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
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Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?
Matthew 13:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
Mark 4:20
And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.
Luke 8:8
And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
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.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
James 1:20
For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
1 Peter 2:3
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
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Matthew 18:19
Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Romans 15:21
But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.
Galatians 1:13
For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:
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Matthew 2:3
And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
Acts 13:43
Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God.
Romans 1:6
Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:
Romans 6:14
For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
1 Corinthians 15:11
If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
Titus 1:3
Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Revelation 1:4
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;
Revelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
Revelation 14:16
And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth; and the grain of the earth was cut.
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John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
John 17:17
Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.
Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
Acts 20:32
And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.
Romans 5:2
Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
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.
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
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Philippians 3:13
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
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Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
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 5:25
If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
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 1:10
Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;
2 Timothy 2:9
In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.
Hebrews 6:11
And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:
James 2:20
Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
James 5:7
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
James 5:8
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
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2 Corinthians 6:9
Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;
Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?
Philippians 3:2
Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
Colossians 2:6
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
Colossians 2:10
And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:
Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
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.
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Philippians 1:13
So that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I was a prisoner on account of Christ;
Philippians 3:10
That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
2 Timothy 1:5
Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.
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Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Mark 2:2
And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.
Mark 4:14
The seed is the word.
Hebrews 4:1
Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
Hebrews 4:2
And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
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Matthew 24:13
But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
Mark 2:5
And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.
Acts 17:6
And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
Colossians 1:24
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
1 Thessalonians 1:7
So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.
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,
Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
James 1:4
But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.
James 2:22
You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;
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Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
Matthew 24:51
And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
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Psalms 98:2
The Lord has given to all the knowledge of his salvation; he has made clear his righteousness in the eyes of the nations.
Daniel 2:44
And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.
Micah 5:7
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
John 12:32
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.
Acts 5:39
But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
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.
Romans 15:17
So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.
Romans 15:20
Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;
2 Timothy 1:11
Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;
1 Peter 4:14
If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
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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?
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Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
Romans 1:10
And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.
1 Thessalonians 1:2
We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
2 Timothy 1:4
Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.
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