Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
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Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
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Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Job 15:23
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Job 30:3
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
Job 30:4
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
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Genesis 21:15
And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.
Psalms 107:4
They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Ezekiel 7:16
And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
Ezekiel 34:6
And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
1 Peter 2:25
Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.
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Genesis 31:24
Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
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Genesis 46:32
And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.
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Exodus 4:15
Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do.
Exodus 4:16
And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.
1 Kings 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
Jeremiah 1:18
For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
Jeremiah 15:20
And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 3:8
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
Micah 3:8
But I truly am full of the spirit of the Lord, with power of judging and with strength to make clear to Jacob his wrongdoing and to Israel his sin.
Acts 7:53
You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.
Acts 7:54
Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.
Acts 7:55
But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.
Acts 7:56
And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.
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Exodus 11:4
And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:
Exodus 11:5
And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.
Exodus 11:6
And there will be a great cry through all the land of Egypt, such as never has been or will be again.
Exodus 11:7
But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.
Exodus 11:8
And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.
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Numbers 15:36
So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
Mark 15:20
And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.
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Numbers 35:33
So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.
Deuteronomy 21:9
So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Kings 24:3
Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;
2 Kings 24:4
And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jeremiah 15:4
And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
Lamentations 4:14
They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.
Matthew 27:6
And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.
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Deuteronomy 32:41
If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
Psalms 7:12
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
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Deuteronomy 33:24
And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.
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1 Samuel 22:17
Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.
Psalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Luke 11:52
A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.
Luke 11:53
And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things;
Luke 11:54
And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.
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1 Samuel 31:10
His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan.
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1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
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1 Kings 17:4
The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.
Proverbs 10:3
The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
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1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.
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1 Kings 18:13
Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?
1 Kings 22:27
And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
Jeremiah 26:20
And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:
Jeremiah 26:21
And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:
Jeremiah 26:22
And Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt.
Jeremiah 26:24
But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
Jeremiah 38:5
Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.
Jeremiah 38:28
So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.
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1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.
Zechariah 10:1
Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
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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.
Job 20:22
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Psalms 8:2
You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
Psalms 68:35
O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
Psalms 101:1
A Psalm. Of David. I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.
2 Corinthians 6:4
But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,
2 Corinthians 12:10
So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
Philippians 2:25
But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need;
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.
Philippians 4:13
I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
Hebrews 13:23
Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.
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1 Kings 19:13
And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
2 Kings 2:8
Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.
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1 Kings 21:10
And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
1 Kings 21:14
And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.
1 Kings 21:15
Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.
John 10:32
Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?
John 10:33
This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.
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Esther 3:3
Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?
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Psalms 24:1
A Psalm. Of David. The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.
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Psalms 43:5
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalms 70:3
Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.
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1 Samuel 22:1
So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.
2 Samuel 15:20
It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.
Psalms 56:8
You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
Amos 8:12
And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.
Luke 15:14
And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.
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Proverbs 16:29
A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.
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Proverbs 21:7
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
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Esther 5:3
Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.
Esther 5:6
And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Esther 7:2
And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Mark 6:16
But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.
Mark 6:23
And he took an oath, saying to her, Whatever is your desire I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom.
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2 Kings 15:27
In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.
Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isaiah 6:1
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
Isaiah 21:1
The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
Isaiah 21:2
A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
Isaiah 21:16
For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:
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Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
Isaiah 41:15
See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.
Amos 1:3
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.
Zechariah 9:1
A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,
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Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
Isaiah 43:2
When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
Luke 21:14
So take care not to be troubled before the time comes, about what answers you will give:
Luke 21:15
For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.
Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.
Romans 12:1
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
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 4:17
For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
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Isaiah 57:1
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
Isaiah 57:2
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Isaiah 57:4
Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,
Hosea 2:5
For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
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Jeremiah 7:5
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
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Jeremiah 40:11
In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
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Jeremiah 40:12
Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.
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Jeremiah 44:4
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.
Jeremiah 44:5
But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.
Jeremiah 44:6
Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.
Jeremiah 44:30
The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.
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Lamentations 5:4
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
Lamentations 5:9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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2 Samuel 14:15
And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!
Job 4:7
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
Job 8:20
Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.
Job 9:22
It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
Job 9:23
If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.
Job 21:25
And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
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Daniel 2:5
The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.
Daniel 3:25
He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
Daniel 3:26
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.
Daniel 3:27
And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.
Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.
Daniel 3:29
And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.
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Daniel 8:9
And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.
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Daniel 8:25
And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men's hands.
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Daniel 8:26
And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret; for it has to do with the far-off future.
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Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
Matthew 16:23
But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.
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.
Luke 21:13
And it will be turned to a witness for you.
Luke 21:16
But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.
Luke 21:17
And you will be hated by all men, because of me.
Luke 21:18
But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.
Romans 8:18
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
1 Corinthians 3:13
Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
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.
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Matthew 1:6
And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;
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Matthew 4:3
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
Luke 4:3
And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.
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Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
Luke 6:22
Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.
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.
Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
John 16:2
They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.
Acts 12:3
And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread.
Acts 14:22
Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
Acts 16:23
And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:
Acts 16:24
And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.
1 Corinthians 10:13
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
Philippians 1:20
In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
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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.
Matthew 21:21
And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.
Matthew 21:37
But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
Matthew 21:38
But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.
Matthew 23:29
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
Matthew 23:32
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
Luke 11:48
So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.
Luke 11:49
For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
Luke 20:11
And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing.
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Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Job 31:19
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
Job 31:20
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Ezekiel 18:7
And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;
Matthew 25:36
I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.
Matthew 25:38
And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?
Matthew 25:40
And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
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Matthew 25:39
And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?
Mark 14:7
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
Luke 3:11
And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.
James 2:16
And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?
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Mark 1:6
And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
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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.
Acts 8:4
But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.
Acts 9:2
And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
Acts 22:4
And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Acts 22:19
And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:
Acts 22:20
And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death.
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Matthew 10:17
But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;
Matthew 21:44
Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.
Matthew 27:2
And they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.
Luke 6:23
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
Luke 12:47
And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;
Acts 3:14
But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,
Acts 9:23
Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:
Acts 16:22
And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.
Ephesians 6:13
For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.
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.
1 Peter 1:8
To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
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.
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Psalms 34:19
Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.
Malachi 3:3
He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
John 16:33
I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
Acts 9:29
Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.
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 4:8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
2 Corinthians 4:10
In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
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 4:12
Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:
1 Peter 4:13
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
1 Peter 5:8
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
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Acts 16:12
And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.
1 Timothy 5:13
And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
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Acts 20:15
And going from there by sea, we came on the day after opposite Chios, and touching at Samos on the day after that, we came on the third day to Miletus.
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Psalms 99:8
You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
Psalms 119:141
I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.
Isaiah 25:4
For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.
Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Acts 9:4
And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
Acts 21:13
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
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.
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.
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;
1 Peter 4:16
But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.
1 Peter 4:18
And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?
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Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
Romans 1:29
Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
Romans 1:30
Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
Romans 1:31
Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
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Romans 14:7
For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.
Romans 14:8
As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.
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2 Corinthians 9:12
For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;
2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.
Philippians 4:14
But you did well to have care for me in my need.
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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 Thessalonians 1:3
It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
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Hebrews 10:1
For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
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Luke 14:26
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
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.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:13
All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
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.
Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab, the loose woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.
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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Exodus 19:13
He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.
Acts 5:33
But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.
Hebrews 11:32
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
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Psalms 141:7
Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
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;
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
Revelation 6:4
And another horse came out, a red horse; and it was given to him who was seated on it to take peace from the earth, so that people might put one another to death: and there was given to him a great sword.
Revelation 6:10
And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
Revelation 6:11
And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies will be in the open street of the great town, which in the spirit is named Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was put to death on the cross.
Revelation 11:9
And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.
Revelation 12:2
And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
Revelation 16:6
For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
Revelation 18:24
And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.
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1 Peter 2:14
And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.
1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
1 Peter 2:16
As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
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Habakkuk 1:13
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
Habakkuk 1:14
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
1 John 3:11
Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
1 John 3:12
Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
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