Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
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Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
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Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Malachi 1:14
“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
Acts 14:15
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Romans 3:26
to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 5:13
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Hebrews 4:9
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 12:24
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Genesis 4:2
Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6:17
I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Genesis 8:1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Romans 7:15
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
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Exodus 1:22
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Psalms 22:9
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
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Exodus 12:29
At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
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Exodus 12:30
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
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Exodus 21:13
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
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Leviticus 26:19
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24
Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
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Numbers 22:32
Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.
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1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
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1 Kings 18:5
Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
Joel 2:22
Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
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Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Job 12:7
“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Job 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
Job 12:9
Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
Job 12:10
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
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Job 19:25
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:26
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
Job 19:27
whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
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Psalms 67:6
The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
Psalms 98:8
Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
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 35:10
Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Isaiah 49:13
Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
Ezekiel 36:35
They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
Amos 9:13
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
Amos 9:14
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
Amos 9:15
I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says Yahweh your God.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
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Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
Job 34:29
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
Psalms 30:7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Psalms 104:29
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
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Job 31:40
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
Hosea 4:15
“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
Joel 1:10
The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
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Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Isaiah 33:23
Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
Isaiah 33:24
The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
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Isaiah 34:4
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Hebrews 1:12
You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”
2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
2 Peter 3:8
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Isaiah 35:7
The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Ezekiel 47:12
By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”
Luke 4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 21:6
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
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Ezekiel 10:1
Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
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Ezekiel 10:14
Every one them had four faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face of an eagle.
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Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
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Amos 3:6
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
Luke 2:25
Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
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.
Romans 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 8:39
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Ephesians 1:14
who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
2 Timothy 4:1
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:4
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
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Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Micah 6:1
Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
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Matthew 13:39
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Revelation 14:17
Another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
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John 9:3
Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
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Isaiah 26:2
Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
John 14:1
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
John 14:2
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
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,
Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:23
The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb.
Revelation 21:24
The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
Revelation 21:25
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Revelation 21:26
and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
Revelation 21:27
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
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Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Acts 2:26
Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
Acts 26:6
Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:25
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
1 Corinthians 15:27
For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
Hebrews 10:12
but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
Hebrews 10:13
from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
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Romans 1:23
and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
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Romans 3:7
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
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Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Galatians 3:20
Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
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Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
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Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
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.
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
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 3:20
And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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,
Hebrews 4:13
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
1 Peter 1:18
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.
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Luke 20:36
For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
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.”
Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
Romans 8:10
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Romans 8:27
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Hebrews 2:5
For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
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Galatians 4:15
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Revelation 21:3
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Revelation 21:9
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
Revelation 22:9
He said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
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