Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
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Genesis 27:3
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
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Genesis 31:36
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
Genesis 31:37
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
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Genesis 36:31
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
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Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
Exodus 4:13
Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
Exodus 4:14
Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Jeremiah 1:10
Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
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.
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Exodus 25:14
You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
Exodus 37:4
He made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
Numbers 4:14
They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
Numbers 10:17
The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.
Joshua 3:6
Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
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Exodus 25:27
The rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
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Exodus 25:28
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
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Exodus 33:19
He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
Exodus 34:5
Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
Joshua 9:9
They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
1 Kings 8:41
“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
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.
Psalms 48:10
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Proverbs 18:20
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
John 17:26
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
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Exodus 38:7
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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Numbers 4:15
“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. The sons of Kohath shall carry these things belonging to the Tent of Meeting.
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Numbers 13:24
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
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Numbers 13:30
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
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Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
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Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
Deuteronomy 32:3
For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
Judges 6:36
Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
Psalms 72:6
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
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.
Isaiah 43:20
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
Ezekiel 47:1
He brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, for the front of the temple faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the temple, on the south of the altar.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Micah 5:7
The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man nor wait for the sons of men.
Micah 5:8
The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
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1 Chronicles 28:4
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
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1 Chronicles 28:5
Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
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Ezra 6:12
May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
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Psalms 22:22
I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Isaiah 45:4
For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
Isaiah 52:10
Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Romans 11:12
Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
Ephesians 1:11
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
1 Timothy 1:14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
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.
1 Timothy 1:16
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
Hebrews 4:16
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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Psalms 76:1
In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
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Psalms 105:6
you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Psalms 105:43
He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
Psalms 106:5
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
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Song of Solomon 3:9
King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.
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Isaiah 10:5
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:7
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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Isaiah 22:7
Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
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Isaiah 52:15
so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.
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.
Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 60:9
Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
Isaiah 61:9
Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
Isaiah 62:2
The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.
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.
Luke 8:16
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
Acts 8:26
Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
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Jeremiah 1:17
“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
Jeremiah 20:7
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
Amos 7:15
and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
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Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
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Ezekiel 16:6
“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
Ezekiel 16:7
I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
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Jonah 3:1
Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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Jonah 3:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
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Habakkuk 3:8
Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
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Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Micah 5:4
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. They will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
Zechariah 14:8
It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. It will be so in summer and in winter.
Acts 11:15
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
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2 Chronicles 4:4
It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
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.
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,
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Acts 1:21
“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Acts 1:22
beginning from the baptism of John to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
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 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
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Luke 1:17
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
Luke 1:76
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,
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Acts 5:34
But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Acts 5:40
They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 7:58
They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 8:1
Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Acts 9:7
The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.
Acts 13:12
Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 22:4
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Acts 26:9
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 26:10
I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
Acts 26:12
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
Galatians 1:17
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.
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Acts 10:13
A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
Acts 10:20
But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”
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Acts 22:30
But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
Acts 25:11
For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Acts 25:24
Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 25:25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I determined to send him,
Acts 25:26
of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination I may have something to write.
Acts 26:2
“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
Acts 26:3
especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
Acts 26:4
“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
Acts 26:5
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts 26:6
Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
Acts 26:8
Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?
Acts 26:32
Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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Acts 25:27
For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”
Acts 26:7
which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
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Acts 28:30
Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
Acts 28:31
preaching God’s Kingdom and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Psalms 4:3
But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly; Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
Zechariah 3:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
John 6:70
Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
John 13:18
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Acts 1:17
For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Romans 9:12
it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
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1 Kings 8:18
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
Isaiah 45:11
Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
Jeremiah 18:4
When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:6
“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Romans 9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Romans 9:18
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Romans 9:19
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
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Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few chosen.”
John 7:35
The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
Acts 10:28
He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.
Acts 10:36
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
Acts 13:1
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts 14:26
From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
Colossians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
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1 Kings 19:18
Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”
Joel 2:32
It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Acts 2:21
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Acts 22:16
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
Romans 10:13
For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
1 Corinthians 1:2
to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Revelation 13:6
He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, his dwelling, and those who dwell in heaven.
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Acts 28:18
who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts 28:19
But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
Acts 28:21
They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
Acts 28:22
But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
Acts 28:23
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
Acts 28:24
Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
Acts 28:25
When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one message: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
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 28:29
When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.
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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Psalms 66:2
Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
Isaiah 42:1
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
Matthew 12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
Matthew 12:21
In his name, the nations will hope.”
Romans 15:8
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
Romans 15:9
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.”
Romans 15:10
Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
Romans 15:11
Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”
Romans 15:12
Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 2:4
Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
1 Peter 2:6
Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious. He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
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Romans 15:14
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
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Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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Acts 14:2
But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
Acts 14:5
When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
Acts 20:17
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
Acts 21:21
They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.
1 Corinthians 4:1
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
2 Corinthians 3:3
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
1 Peter 5:13
She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.
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Matthew 9:38
Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
Matthew 19:30
But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.
Luke 2:11
For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
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!”
Acts 26:23
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
Romans 11:14
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
Ephesians 3:6
that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
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Galatians 2:15
“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
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John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Acts 15:26
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 19:21
Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
Galatians 5:10
I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
Philippians 1:12
Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
Philippians 1:13
so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
Philippians 1:14
and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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Philippians 1:28
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
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,
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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Acts 9:8
Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
Acts 9:21
All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
Acts 9:22
But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 22:12
“One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Acts 26:15
“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Galatians 1:11
But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.
Philippians 3:4
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Philippians 3:7
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
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Psalms 74:10
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Psalms 110:2
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Luke 7:13
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.”
John 3:27
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
Acts 20:21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
Romans 11:25
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
1 Corinthians 7:25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
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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.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Acts 21:11
Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Romans 1:13
Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
Galatians 6:17
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
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.
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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Song of Solomon 1:3
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.
Romans 5:20
The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Ephesians 1:12
to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
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Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Revelation 2:27
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots, as I also have received of my Father;
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Revelation 11:5
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
Revelation 11:6
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
Revelation 11:7
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
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Revelation 18:12
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
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