Luke 15:24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
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Luke 15:24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
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Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”
Psalms 104:31
Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
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Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Genesis 31:54
Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.
Exodus 18:12
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Exodus 24:11
He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
Deuteronomy 12:7
There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
1 Corinthians 10:18
Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
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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.”
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Numbers 11:34
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
Amos 6:6
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
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Deuteronomy 23:16
He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
Isaiah 16:3
Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
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2 Kings 4:37
Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.
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Job 33:27
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Psalms 149:4
For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Zechariah 12:10
I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
Titus 3:2
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
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Psalms 126:1
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
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Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
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Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Psalms 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Proverbs 3:12
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
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,
Jeremiah 3:19
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Luke 4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Acts 20:21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
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Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
Matthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Romans 14:19
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
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Isaiah 16:4
Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
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Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Isaiah 9:3
You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
Isaiah 60:4
“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isaiah 65:18
But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.
Isaiah 66:10
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
Isaiah 66:12
For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
Isaiah 66:13
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 66:14
You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
Jeremiah 31:12
They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah 31:13
Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jeremiah 31:14
I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 31:15
Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
Jeremiah 31:16
Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.
Jeremiah 31:17
There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
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Jeremiah 32:37
“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely.
Jeremiah 32:38
Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good and the good of their children after them.
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.
Jeremiah 32:42
For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
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Deuteronomy 28:63
It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:33
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
John 5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Ezekiel 34:16
“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’
Matthew 9:12
When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Matthew 10:6
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 18:12
“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Luke 9:56
For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
John 3:17
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 10:10
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
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Jeremiah 3:1
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 4:1
“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Hosea 14:4
“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.
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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?”
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Mark 8:22
He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.
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Luke 15:2
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
John 12:47
If anyone listens to my sayings and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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John 4:35
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
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John 5:28
Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
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Acts 7:41
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
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Luke 9:60
But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
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Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 7:7
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
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Acts 16:29
He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
Acts 16:30
brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 16:31
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:32
They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
Acts 16:33
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.
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Genesis 45:28
Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Numbers 14:8
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
Song of Solomon 5:1
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved
Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
Matthew 26:29
But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
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.
Romans 5:15
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.
Revelation 7:15
Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
Revelation 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
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Romans 7:10
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
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Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Romans 14:8
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
Acts 13:48
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 13:52
The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:26
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
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Psalms 40:3
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
Zechariah 9:17
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
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 17:13
But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
James 5:13
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
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,
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Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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2 Timothy 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
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Song of Solomon 3:11
Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
Luke 2:13
Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying,
Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
Revelation 14:3
They sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
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