James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
1 Peter 1:25
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 John 3:9
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
2 Corinthians 3:3
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Deuteronomy 30:6
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Jeremiah 10:23
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
John 3:27
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
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John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 1:13
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
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Revelation 14:4
These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
Romans 11:16
If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
Romans 16:5
Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—
Leviticus 23:10
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
Amos 6:1
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
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James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 1:20
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
James 5:19
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
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1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
1 John 5:18
We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.
1 John 3:19
And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
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Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
Psalms 110:3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Colossians 2:12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
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1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
Romans 15:20
yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
Titus 1:4
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
Philemon 1:19
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
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Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
Proverbs 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Deuteronomy 26:2
that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Nehemiah 10:35
and to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
Nehemiah 10:36
also the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
Nehemiah 10:37
and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all our farming villages.
Deuteronomy 26:10
Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
2 Chronicles 31:5
As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.
Ezekiel 44:30
The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Ezekiel 20:40
For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
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Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 13:48
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
Jeremiah 31:3
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
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Exodus 22:29
“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
Numbers 18:12
“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.
Exodus 23:19
You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 18:4
You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
Numbers 15:19
then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 15:20
Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
Numbers 15:21
Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
Exodus 34:26
“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Leviticus 2:12
As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
Exodus 34:22
“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
Numbers 15:17
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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1 Corinthians 15:21
For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming.
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Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:21
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Romans 8:23
Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
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Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Corinthians 6:7
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Psalms 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
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John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Hebrews 2:4
God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
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1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
Psalms 119:43
Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
Isaiah 55:11
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
Psalms 110:2
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Ephesians 4:21
if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
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Hebrews 12:23
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Exodus 4:22
You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Romans 9:4
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
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Romans 9:18
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
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Ephesians 1:11
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
Ephesians 1:12
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Revelation 3:14
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
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Philippians 1:29
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
Titus 3:6
whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;
John 6:37
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
Ephesians 1:19
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
John 4:10
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 6:65
He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
Acts 14:27
When they had arrived and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
Ephesians 3:7
of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Galatians 4:5
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.
Galatians 4:6
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
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James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Deuteronomy 26:3
You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:4
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
Deuteronomy 26:5
You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
Deuteronomy 26:7
Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
Deuteronomy 26:8
Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
Deuteronomy 26:9
and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
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John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
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