1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
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Genesis 16:13
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
Exodus 3:16
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 34:15
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
Isaiah 6:8
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Jeremiah 32:19
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Deuteronomy 18:13
You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.
2 Chronicles 31:20
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job 1:8
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
Philippians 3:16
Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
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Genesis 28:13
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
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Exodus 15:2
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
1 Kings 3:3
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
1 Kings 11:6
Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:38
It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
1 Chronicles 29:10
Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalms 84:11
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalms 91:14
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
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.
Jude 1:20
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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Exodus 34:5
Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Deuteronomy 4:35
It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
1 Samuel 2:2
There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
Psalms 31:3
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
Isaiah 45:6
that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Romans 3:24
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
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Numbers 14:43
For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”
Judges 16:17
He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
Judges 16:20
She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
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Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:2
and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4
If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
Deuteronomy 30:5
Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:7
Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 30:8
You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Deuteronomy 32:46
He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
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1 Samuel 2:23
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
Proverbs 4:2
for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
Proverbs 4:3
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
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1 Samuel 28:15
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
1 Samuel 28:16
Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?
1 Samuel 28:17
Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
1 Samuel 28:18
Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.
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2 Samuel 7:15
but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
Psalms 89:26
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 89:31
if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
Psalms 89:32
then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 108:11
Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
Jeremiah 33:24
“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
Jeremiah 33:25
Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
Jeremiah 33:26
then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
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2 Samuel 15:1
After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:3
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
2 Samuel 15:5
It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 29:9
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Deuteronomy 31:7
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 31:23
He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”
Joshua 1:5
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
1 Kings 8:57
May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us,
2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Isaiah 41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel,” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
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1 Samuel 12:14
If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.
1 Samuel 12:15
But if you will not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.
1 Samuel 13:14
But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
1 Samuel 15:26
Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
1 Samuel 16:1
Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:19
Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Jeremiah 23:33
“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘ “What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
Jeremiah 23:39
therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 5:20
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
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2 Kings 17:27
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”
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2 Kings 17:28
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
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Deuteronomy 13:5
That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 29:26
and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
Deuteronomy 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Joshua 23:14
“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
Joshua 23:15
It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
Joshua 24:20
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
2 Kings 21:22
and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.
2 Kings 22:17
Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ”
Zephaniah 1:5
those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:27
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
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1 Chronicles 1:10
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.
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1 Chronicles 16:10
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
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Exodus 25:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
Exodus 35:21
They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
Exodus 36:2
Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
1 Chronicles 22:14
Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
1 Chronicles 22:15
There are also workmen with you in abundance—cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
1 Chronicles 22:16
of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
1 Chronicles 28:2
Then David the king stood up on his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
1 Chronicles 29:5
of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.
Nehemiah 11:2
The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
Philemon 1:14
But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.
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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
1 Chronicles 28:12
and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
1 Chronicles 28:13
also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of Yahweh’s house, and for all the vessels of service in Yahweh’s house—
1 Chronicles 28:14
of gold by weight for the gold for all vessels of every kind of service, for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
1 Chronicles 28:15
by weight also for the lamp stands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps; and for the lamp stands of silver, by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lamp stand;
1 Chronicles 28:16
and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
1 Chronicles 28:17
and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
1 Chronicles 28:18
and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.
1 Chronicles 28:19
“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
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1 Kings 5:5
Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’
1 Chronicles 17:12
He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
1 Chronicles 28:5
Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:2
He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:3
Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:4
The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
Ezra 5:11
Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
Zechariah 6:13
He will build Yahweh’s temple. He will bear the glory, and will sit and rule on his throne. He will be a priest on his throne. The counsel of peace will be between them both.
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
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2 Chronicles 6:16
“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
2 Chronicles 6:17
Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
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2 Chronicles 11:14
For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 29:19
Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which king Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before Yahweh’s altar.”
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2 Chronicles 15:12
They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:13
and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2 Chronicles 15:14
They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
2 Chronicles 15:15
All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
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2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
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2 Chronicles 32:7
“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.
2 Chronicles 32:8
An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Psalms 46:7
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 46:11
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Isaiah 4:6
There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 7:4
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Isaiah 25:4
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
Psalms 18:22
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 36:10
Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Isaiah 65:1
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
Hosea 13:5
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
2 Timothy 3:14
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
1 John 3:19
And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,
1 John 4:6
We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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2 Chronicles 30:22
Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
Ezra 7:25
You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
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Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Job 36:12
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
Psalms 22:26
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Psalms 69:32
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Isaiah 9:13
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
Jeremiah 2:27
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Hosea 8:3
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
Hosea 8:5
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
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Leviticus 1:3
“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
Job 12:4
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 34:17
The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 39:1
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Matthew 6:8
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.
John 17:6
“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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Job 42:2
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
Matthew 12:25
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
Luke 6:8
But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.
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Psalms 14:2
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Psalms 33:13
Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
Psalms 33:14
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
Psalms 33:15
he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
Psalms 53:2
God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
Psalms 139:11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
Psalms 139:12
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Jeremiah 17:21
Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 17:23
But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
Jeremiah 17:24
It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
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Psalms 15:1
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
Psalms 15:5
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
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1 Samuel 30:8
David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
Psalms 32:11
Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
Psalms 37:5
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:58
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
Proverbs 16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
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Psalms 44:17
All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.
Psalms 44:19
though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
Psalms 44:26
Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
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Psalms 44:10
You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44:12
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15
All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 44:18
Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 44:23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
Psalms 44:24
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
Deuteronomy 8:18
But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Luke 11:9
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
John 15:9
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
2 Timothy 1:5
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.
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Psalms 92:5
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
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Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
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Psalms 94:10
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
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Psalms 94:11
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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Judges 2:13
They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Judges 2:14
Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
Judges 2:15
Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
Judges 10:6
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:15
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm. He gave them all into his hand.
Nehemiah 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
Psalms 106:43
He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
Psalms 106:44
Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
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Psalms 7:10
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psalms 111:1
Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
Psalms 119:7
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:113
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Matthew 6:34
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
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Proverbs 9:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 30:3
I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
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1 Samuel 4:11
God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Samuel 4:12
A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.
1 Chronicles 12:33
Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.
Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.
Nehemiah 1:11
Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Psalms 9:1
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
Psalms 94:15
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
Proverbs 16:3
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
Proverbs 23:17
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
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Proverbs 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
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Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Song of Solomon 3:4
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
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1 Kings 9:3
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
1 Kings 11:34
“ ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes,
2 Chronicles 14:4
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.
2 Chronicles 17:4
but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
Psalms 71:9
Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
Jeremiah 9:16
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Luke 11:13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
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Joshua 23:12
“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Isaiah 50:11
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 65:12
I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Ezekiel 18:24
“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
Zephaniah 1:4
I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place—the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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Proverbs 15:26
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
Isaiah 66:18
“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
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2 Chronicles 36:18
All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:19
They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
Jeremiah 44:22
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
Jeremiah 44:23
Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
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2 Kings 22:2
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
2 Chronicles 14:7
For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
Psalms 1:6
For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 27:9
Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Haggai 1:5
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
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.
John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
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,
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
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1 Samuel 12:25
But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 17:17
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 17:18
Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:20
Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Psalms 74:1
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Jeremiah 5:19
It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
Jeremiah 5:25
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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Genesis 18:23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
Job 22:21
“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Job 36:11
If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
Hosea 6:1
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Hosea 6:2
After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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Zechariah 6:12
and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch! He will grow up out of his place; and he will build Yahweh’s temple.
John 2:19
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
John 2:20
The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
John 2:21
But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Acts 7:47
But Solomon built him a house.
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1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:13
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
Job 11:13
“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
Amos 5:6
Seek Yahweh, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Matthew 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
John 14:13
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
John 16:23
“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
John 16:26
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,
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Mark 2:1
When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home.
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John 1:42
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
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John 1:46
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
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Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
John 5:42
But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
John 16:30
Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
1 Corinthians 14:28
But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
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Numbers 5:16
The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh.
Psalms 34:22
Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Hosea 7:2
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
2 Peter 1:15
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
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2 Chronicles 17:5
Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 10:22
Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
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1 Kings 2:2
“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
Acts 1:2
until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1 Timothy 3:15
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
1 Timothy 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
1 Timothy 6:13
I command you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
1 Timothy 6:14
that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
Revelation 3:11
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
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Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.
John 17:25
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
Acts 17:23
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
Ephesians 2:12
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
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Numbers 20:28
Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
Numbers 27:17
who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
Numbers 27:18
Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
Deuteronomy 34:9
Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
1 Chronicles 22:17
David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
Acts 20:25
“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Acts 20:29
For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Colossians 4:17
Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”
1 Timothy 4:14
Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
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Mark 8:15
He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
1 Timothy 4:11
Command and teach these things.
1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
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Deuteronomy 29:10
All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:11
your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
Deuteronomy 29:12
that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,
Jeremiah 31:31
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
Jeremiah 31:32
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
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.
Hebrews 7:19
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:22
By so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
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Psalms 38:21
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
Psalms 119:121
I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Luke 12:31
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
John 1:9
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
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.
Philippians 4:18
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
James 4:11
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
1 John 3:6
Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.
1 John 5:11
The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.
Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
Exodus 23:13
“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
Deuteronomy 4:23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deuteronomy 7:12
It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
1 Kings 11:9
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Colossians 2:9
For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
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