Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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Genesis 41:38
Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
Genesis 41:39
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
Job 15:8
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Daniel 2:28
but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these:
Daniel 2:47
The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
Luke 21:15
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
John 16:12
“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
Acts 6:3
Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
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Numbers 23:7
He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
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Judges 14:12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
Judges 14:13
but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
1 Kings 10:3
Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.
2 Chronicles 9:2
Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.
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2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
2 Samuel 24:1
Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
2 Chronicles 25:16
As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Job 17:4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,
Ezekiel 14:7
“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
Ezekiel 14:8
I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 14:9
“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 20:25
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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Job 11:6
that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Jeremiah 23:18
For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
Romans 11:34
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
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 2:16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
Ephesians 4:11
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
2 Timothy 3:7
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.
Psalms 49:3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:23
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 8:8
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
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Psalms 23:1
Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
Psalms 23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Psalms 23:3
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psalms 80:1
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
Isaiah 40:10
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
Isaiah 56:8
The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”
Jeremiah 23:3
“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.
Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
Ezekiel 34:11
“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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Psalms 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Isaiah 25:6
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Isaiah 65:13
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed.
John 4:32
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
John 6:48
I am the bread of life.
John 6:49
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
John 6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
John 6:54
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.
John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
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Psalms 78:3
which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
Psalms 78:5
For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
Psalms 78:6
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
Psalms 78:7
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
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Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Isaiah 8:16
Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Micah 2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 20:31
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
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Proverbs 30:3
I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
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Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
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Isaiah 2:2
It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
Isaiah 2:3
Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:4
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Zechariah 8:20
Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come.
Zechariah 8:21
The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’
Zechariah 8:22
Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”
Zechariah 8:23
Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”
John 2:16
To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
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Isaiah 26:19
Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Daniel 12:1
“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Isaiah 29:11
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”
Daniel 12:8
I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
Luke 24:44
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:46
He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
John 5:25
Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
John 6:15
Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
John 6:39
This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
John 6:40
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 9:39
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
John 12:42
Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
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Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Isaiah 32:15
until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
John 14:17
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
Revelation 19:19
I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army.
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Isaiah 29:19
The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 29:24
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
Isaiah 32:4
The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Isaiah 35:6
Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
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.
Mark 7:37
They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
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Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
Zechariah 11:9
Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
Matthew 21:43
“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
Matthew 23:39
For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
Acts 13:46
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:47
For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”
Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
Acts 28:28
“Be it known therefore to you that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
Romans 11:8
According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
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Ezekiel 14:5
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’
Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:10
They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him,
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Nahum 3:2
The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
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Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Matthew 6:10
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:13
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
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Matthew 10:24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
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Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
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Matthew 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
John 16:1
“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
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Matthew 13:24
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Matthew 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
Matthew 13:44
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Matthew 13:47
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,
Matthew 25:1
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mark 4:26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
Luke 13:18
He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?
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Matthew 15:12
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
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Matthew 16:13
Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
Matthew 16:15
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Mark 8:29
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
Luke 9:20
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
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Matthew 10:40
“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
Matthew 13:58
He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
Luke 4:43
But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
Luke 10:24
for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
Luke 12:48
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 6:14
When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
Acts 10:41
not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
1 Corinthians 14:30
But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
Philippians 1:19
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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Matthew 17:19
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
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Matthew 19:11
But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
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Matthew 20:17
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
Mark 10:32
They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
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Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
Matthew 15:17
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
Matthew 16:11
How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Mark 4:13
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
Mark 7:18
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
Mark 8:17
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
Luke 9:45
But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
John 16:16
“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
John 16:18
They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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Mark 8:22
He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.
Mark 8:23
He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
Mark 8:24
He looked up, and said, “I see men, but I see them like walking trees.”
Mark 8:25
Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
John 9:6
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
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Mark 10:10
In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
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Matthew 13:18
“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Mark 4:14
The farmer sows the word.
Mark 4:15
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
Mark 4:16
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
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.
Mark 4:18
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
Mark 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
Luke 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:12
Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
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Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.
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Luke 22:26
But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
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Luke 14:16
But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
John 6:50
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6:52
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
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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.
Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
John 8:21
Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
John 8:24
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
John 12:8
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
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Job 28:15
It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Mark 10:15
Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
1 Corinthians 2:8
which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
Philippians 1:29
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
1 Peter 2:1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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Luke 6:38
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
John 10:16
I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
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Jeremiah 31:34
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
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.
John 4:26
Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
John 6:37
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
John 9:37
Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
John 10:29
My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
Acts 10:31
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
Ephesians 3:18
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
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John 16:19
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’
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Matthew 10:26
Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
Matthew 13:2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Matthew 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
Matthew 13:5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Matthew 13:8
Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
John 16:29
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
John 18:20
Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
2 Corinthians 3:13
and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
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Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
Mark 1:10
Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
Luke 2:26
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
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.
John 17:25
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
Acts 11:26
When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Acts 14:21
When they had preached the Good News to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
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 Timothy 1:10
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
Revelation 1:1
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Luke 6:20
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours.
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 17:8
for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Colossians 1:13
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
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Matthew 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
Matthew 20:21
He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Matthew 20:23
He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Matthew 20:25
But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Matthew 20:26
It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 20:27
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Luke 22:24
A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
Luke 22:25
He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’
Luke 22:27
For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
Acts 1:6
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
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Acts 4:2
being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:3
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Acts 4:4
But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
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John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Acts 10:32
Send therefore to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Ephesians 1:19
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
2 Timothy 2:25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
2 Timothy 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
2 Peter 1:19
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts,
1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
1 John 5:13
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
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Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
John 12:37
But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
John 14:10
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!
2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Romans 8:8
Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
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Psalms 8:2
From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
Matthew 21:16
and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of children and nursing babies, you have perfected praise?’ ”
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
1 Corinthians 1:29
that no flesh should boast before God.
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1 Corinthians 3:4
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
2 Corinthians 11:6
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
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Hosea 12:10
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
2 Corinthians 12:1
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast, but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Galatians 1:12
For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:15
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
Galatians 1:16
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
Ephesians 3:2
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,
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Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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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.
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Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
Hebrews 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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Isaiah 66:22
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
Isaiah 66:23
It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
2 Peter 3:13
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
Revelation 21:1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
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Revelation 5:1
I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
Revelation 5:2
I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
Revelation 5:3
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
Revelation 5:4
Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
Revelation 5:5
One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
Revelation 5:6
I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 5:7
Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
Revelation 5:8
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 5:9
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Revelation 6:1
I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”
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Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Daniel 11:33
“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 10:26
But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
John 14:24
He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
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.”
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.
Hebrews 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
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.
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Psalms 107:43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
Revelation 17:7
The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
Revelation 17:9
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
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