Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.
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Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.
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Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Proverbs 20:30
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Isaiah 14:31
Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
Acts 15:18
“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
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Psalms 72:8
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
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Psalms 75:2
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Psalms 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
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Psalms 107:43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Mark 4:11
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Luke 24:25
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
John 8:47
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
John 18:37
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:12
But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 2:13
We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
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Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
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Song of Solomon 1:6
Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
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Isaiah 4:4
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Ezekiel 24:13
“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
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Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
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Lamentations 4:7
Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
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Daniel 11:4
When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
Daniel 11:6
At the end of years they will join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
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Hosea 3:3
I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
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Zechariah 11:15
Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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Zechariah 12:8
In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
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Psalms 31:15
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Isaiah 45:21
Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
Daniel 9:25
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:3
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Galatians 4:2
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
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Matthew 4:24
The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
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Matthew 26:56
But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Matthew 26:69
Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
Matthew 26:70
But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Matthew 26:71
When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
Matthew 26:72
Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”
Matthew 26:73
After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
Matthew 26:74
Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.
Matthew 26:75
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
John 20:25
The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
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Acts 13:13
Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
Acts 15:37
Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
Acts 15:38
But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
Acts 15:39
Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
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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.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 2:16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
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1 Corinthians 8:6
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
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Matthew 24:5
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
Matthew 24:6
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:7
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
Matthew 24:8
But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Matthew 24:10
Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
Matthew 24:11
Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray.
Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
1 Corinthians 11:19
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
1 Thessalonians 5:1
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
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2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction.
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
2 Thessalonians 2:8
Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
2 Timothy 3:1
But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2 Timothy 3:5
holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
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Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
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,
Revelation 7:9
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 7:13
One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”
Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
Revelation 19:8
It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
Revelation 19:14
The armies which are in heaven, clothed in white, pure, fine linen, followed him on white horses.
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Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
Job 1:12
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
Job 2:3
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. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
Job 2:6
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
Luke 22:31
The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,
Hebrews 11:17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:31
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
1 Corinthians 8:5
For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Revelation 9:20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk.
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Daniel 11:24
In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and wealth. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.
Daniel 12:11
“From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Revelation 10:7
but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 15:1
I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
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Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
Daniel 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
Daniel 7:26
“ ‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.
Daniel 8:23
“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding riddles, will stand up.
Daniel 11:28
Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.
Daniel 12:12
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
Revelation 13:7
It was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
Revelation 14:15
Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Send your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!”
Revelation 16:6
For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
Revelation 19:2
for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
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