James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
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Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Deuteronomy 30:6
And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.
1 Kings 8:58
Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.
Psalms 51:10
Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
Psalms 110:3
Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
John 3:27
And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
Romans 3:12
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
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Genesis 22:2
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
Acts 11:18
And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.
Acts 26:19
So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;
Acts 26:20
But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.
2 Corinthians 4:6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
2 Timothy 2:26
And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
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Exodus 28:3
Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.
Exodus 31:6
And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;
Exodus 35:10
And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;
Exodus 35:25
And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
Exodus 35:26
And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.
Exodus 35:34
And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.
Exodus 35:35
To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.
Exodus 36:1
So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.
Exodus 36:8
Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.
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1 Kings 3:12
I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
2 Chronicles 1:10
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?
2 Chronicles 1:11
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:
2 Chronicles 1:12
Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.
2 Chronicles 9:23
And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.
Daniel 1:17
Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.
Daniel 2:21
By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:
Daniel 2:22
He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.
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.
1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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1 Samuel 2:25
If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.
1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 36:22
Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
Romans 10:12
And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:
Romans 10:13
Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.
Romans 10:14
But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?
Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
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Nehemiah 7:5
And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:
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Psalms 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
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Psalms 53:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
Romans 15:16
To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
Galatians 4:7
So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.
Ephesians 3:7
Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.
1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
Revelation 3:20
See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.
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2 Chronicles 18:31
So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Psalms 105:25
Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
Proverbs 19:21
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
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Psalms 112:7
He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.
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Psalms 112:8
His heart is resting safely, he will have no fear, till he sees trouble come on his haters.
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Psalms 122:6
O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.
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Psalms 139:23
O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
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Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
Romans 6:17
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
2 Thessalonians 2:12
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
3 John 1:11
My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Proverbs 2:3
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Proverbs 2:5
Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Proverbs 2:7
He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:6
Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
Proverbs 8:17
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
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Isaiah 26:12
Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.
Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
Luke 6:45
The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
2 Thessalonians 3:5
And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.
Titus 2:13
Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus 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.
Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 13:21
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
James 1:21
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
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Exodus 8:32
But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:12
And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Exodus 10:20
But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
Exodus 11:10
All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus 14:4
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
1 Samuel 6:6
Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
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Ezekiel 15:6
For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:7
And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.
Ezekiel 15:8
And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
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Daniel 2:23
I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business.
Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;
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Matthew 22:29
But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
Mark 12:24
Jesus said to them, Is not this the reason for your error, that you have no knowledge of the holy Writings or of the power of God?
Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.
Colossians 2:4
I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.
Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
2 Timothy 2:18
Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.
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Psalms 80:3
Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalms 80:7
Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalms 80:19
Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Psalms 85:4
Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
Jeremiah 17:14
Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.
Lamentations 5:21
Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
Malachi 4:6
And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.
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Song of Solomon 5:4
My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.
Isaiah 50:5
And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
Luke 24:45
Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.
Acts 5:31
Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
Acts 20:21
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:15
But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.
2 Corinthians 3:16
But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
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Luke 17:5
And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?
John 3:5
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
John 3:6
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7
Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.
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John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
John 8:45
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
John 8:46
Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?
John 8:47
He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
John 10:16
And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.
John 10:26
But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.
John 10:27
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
John 12:37
But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:
John 12:38
So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?
John 12:41
(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
Romans 2:8
But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,
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Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
John 13:2
So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
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Acts 26:17
And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
Romans 15:9
And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.
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Romans 9:14
What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.
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Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
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Acts 18:27
And when he had a desire to go over into Achaia, the brothers gave him help, and sent letters to the disciples requesting them to take him in among them: and when he had come, he gave much help to those who had faith through grace:
1 Corinthians 3:6
I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
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Ephesians 2:18
Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 3:12
By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.
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James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
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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.
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James 2:15
If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,
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2 Chronicles 29:36
And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.
Psalms 119:5
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
Romans 1:5
Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
Ephesians 3:17
So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
Colossians 1:29
And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
2 Thessalonians 2:14
And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
James 5:18
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 2:2
Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
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1 Corinthians 6:9
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Philippians 4:1
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
Hebrews 13:1
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:
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Jude 1:13
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
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