Hebrews 11:25
Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;
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Hebrews 11:25
Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;
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Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
Genesis 3:7
And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
Job 20:12
Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;
Job 20:13
Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;
Job 20:14
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
Job 20:15
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
Job 20:16
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Job 20:17
Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
Job 20:18
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Job 20:20
There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.
Proverbs 9:17
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
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Genesis 12:4
So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.
Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
Joshua 24:3
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
Acts 7:6
And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
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Genesis 48:5
And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.
Exodus 2:3
And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
Exodus 2:10
And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.
Acts 7:22
And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.
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Exodus 2:12
And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.
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Exodus 2:13
And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?
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Numbers 11:10
And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.
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Deuteronomy 33:9
Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
Deuteronomy 33:11
Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.
Isaiah 56:4
For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
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1 Kings 9:13
And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.
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2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
2 Chronicles 33:14
After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.
2 Chronicles 33:15
He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.
2 Chronicles 33:16
And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:17
However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
2 Chronicles 33:18
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
Matthew 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same.
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Esther 7:3
Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:
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Job 5:17
Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.
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Job 5:18
For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
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Psalms 105:38
Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.
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Psalms 141:4
Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
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Proverbs 3:31
Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
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Proverbs 9:6
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Song of Solomon 2:14
O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
Daniel 5:17
Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.
Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 5:2
And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
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;
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Hebrews 3:13
But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
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Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
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Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
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Isaiah 40:2
Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
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Jeremiah 39:1
And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;
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Jeremiah 40:16
But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You are not to do this: for what you say about Ishmael is false.
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Daniel 1:21
And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.
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Job 34:7
What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
Job 34:8
And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?
Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
Job 35:3
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Daniel 3:16
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.
Daniel 3:17
If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.
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.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
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Amos 1:15
And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.
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2 Samuel 6:5
And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.
Esther 1:4
And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.
Esther 5:11
And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.
Job 21:11
They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
Job 21:12
They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
Psalms 49:16
Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:17
For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
Psalms 131:2
See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Matthew 4:8
Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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Genesis 45:20
And take no thought for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.
Psalms 45:10
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
Matthew 10:38
And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.
Matthew 19:27
Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?
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 19:30
But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,
Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.
Luke 22:28
But you are those who have kept with me through my troubles;
Luke 22:29
And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,
Luke 22:30
So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Matthew 11:18
For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
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Job 22:2
Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
Matthew 10:32
To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.
Matthew 13:21
But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.
Mark 9:43
And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.
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.
Romans 1:16
For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.
1 Peter 3:17
Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.
1 Peter 4:15
Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;
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Matthew 14:7
So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.
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Matthew 14:8
And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.
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Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.
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Matthew 16:25
Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.
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 8:36
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
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.
Luke 5:23
Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?
Luke 9:24
For whoever has a desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, but whoever gives up his life because of me, will keep it.
Luke 9:25
For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?
Luke 14:27
Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
Luke 14:30
And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
Luke 18:29
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,
Luke 18:30
Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.
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Luke 9:26
For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 9:27
But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.
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Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
Psalms 144:15
Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
Luke 9:62
But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.
Acts 20:24
But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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 12:2
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
James 1:3
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
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 1:6
You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,
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Job 20:5
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
Job 21:13
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Psalms 73:18
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Isaiah 21:4
My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Isaiah 47:8
So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
Isaiah 47:9
But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
James 1:11
For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
James 5:5
You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
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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John 15:19
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
John 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.
John 15:21
They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.
John 17:16
They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
Acts 28:22
But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.
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Matthew 13:44
The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.
Luke 18:23
But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.
Luke 18:24
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
Luke 19:6
And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.
Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.
Acts 2:44
And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;
Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 4:32
And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
Acts 4:33
And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.
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Acts 4:34
And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,
Acts 4:35
And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.
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Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:
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Luke 1:75
In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.
Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Romans 8:25
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
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.
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Romans 12:15
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
Hebrews 13:3
Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.
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1 Corinthians 13:7
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
2 Corinthians 7:4
My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.
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.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;
2 Thessalonians 1:5
Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
Hebrews 6:9
But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;
Hebrews 10:26
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
Hebrews 10:33
In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
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,
Hebrews 12:3
Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
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Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2:6
To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;
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.
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Genesis 15:1
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
Numbers 10:29
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.
Job 1:9
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?
Psalms 19:11
By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Romans 4:20
Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,
Ephesians 6:16
And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.
Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
1 Timothy 6:12
Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.
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Colossians 2:22
(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
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Numbers 24:11
Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.
Ruth 1:14
Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Acts 8:20
But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.
Colossians 3:24
Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
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.
1 Peter 5:9
Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.
2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
Revelation 22:12
See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.
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Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob gave a blessing to the two sons of Joseph, when he was near to death; and gave God worship, supported by his stick.
Hebrews 11:29
By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it had been dry land, though the Egyptians were overcome by the water when they made an attempt to do the same.
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.
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Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Genesis 31:39
Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.
Genesis 31:40
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
Exodus 2:21
And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
Philippians 4:11
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
Philippians 4:12
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
1 Timothy 6:6
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
Hebrews 13:5
Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.
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Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Acts 13:1
Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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Zechariah 14:7
And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
2 Peter 3:12
Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?
2 Peter 3:13
But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
Revelation 11:15
And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
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Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
2 Peter 2:13
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
1 John 2:17
And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
Revelation 18:7
As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.
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