Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
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Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
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Genesis 15:1
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 34:11
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
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 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.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
1 Peter 1:5
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
1 Peter 1:8
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
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.
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Genesis 15:15
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 48:21
Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 49:33
When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Numbers 27:12
Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
Numbers 27:13
When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
Numbers 27:14
because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Deuteronomy 31:14
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
Joshua 23:14
“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
2 Chronicles 21:20
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.
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Genesis 31:30
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 45:28
Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Genesis 48:11
Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”
2 Samuel 13:39
King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
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.
Romans 15:23
but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
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Exodus 14:10
When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
Exodus 14:11
They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12
Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Numbers 20:3
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
Joshua 8:20
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
Judges 10:9
The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
Judges 20:41
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
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Exodus 33:20
He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
Exodus 33:21
Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
Exodus 33:22
It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
Exodus 33:23
then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
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Numbers 27:15
Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
Numbers 27:16
“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
Numbers 27:17
who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
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Numbers 32:17
but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Numbers 32:18
We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.
Numbers 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”
Numbers 32:20
Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
Numbers 32:21
and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Numbers 32:22
and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.
Joshua 1:15
until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”
Joshua 22:3
You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
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Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
Psalms 32:7
You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Luke 17:16
He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
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2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
1 Chronicles 21:13
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
Esther 4:11
“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
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2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:4
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
2 Chronicles 15:12
They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:15
All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
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Ezra 1:11
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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Esther 4:16
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
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Job 7:1
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 14:13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
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Job 6:10
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Jonah 4:9
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
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Job 23:4
I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Job 23:15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Job 33:12
“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
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Psalms 14:7
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Exodus 33:17
Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 62:2
He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.
Psalms 62:3
How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Song of Solomon 2:2
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved
Song of Solomon 6:2
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Mark 9:5
Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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Psalms 63:4
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Isaiah 33:17
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
Matthew 17:4
Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
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Exodus 28:2
You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
1 Chronicles 29:3
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:
Psalms 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
Psalms 21:6
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
Psalms 23:6
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psalms 84:10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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.
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Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
Job 36:8
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Psalms 116:15
Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
Psalms 116:16
Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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2 Samuel 23:5
Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
Psalms 119:166
I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.
Psalms 119:174
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
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2 Kings 2:11
As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Psalms 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
John 8:51
Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
Acts 1:9
When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So also it is written, “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
Ephesians 2:6
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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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Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
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Psalms 30:9
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
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Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
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Song of Solomon 8:14
Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
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1 Kings 19:3
When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
Job 32:18
For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
Job 32:19
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
Job 32:20
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
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.
Micah 3:8
But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
Luke 24:32
They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
Acts 4:20
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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1 Kings 18:12
It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
2 Kings 2:16
They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain or into some valley.” He said, “Don’t send them.”
Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.
Ezekiel 8:2
Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire—from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire, and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
Ezekiel 8:3
He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Ezekiel 11:24
The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Acts 8:39
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 8:40
But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 22:17
“When I had returned to Jerusalem and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance
2 Corinthians 12:3
I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
Revelation 1:10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
Revelation 1:11
saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
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Matthew 27:7
They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.
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Mark 5:7
and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”
Luke 8:37
All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.
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Mark 5:17
They began to beg him to depart from their region.
Luke 8:28
When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”
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Luke 4:38
He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.
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Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
Luke 16:27
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
Luke 16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
Luke 16:30
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
Luke 16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
Romans 4:12
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
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Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
Matthew 25:22
“He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents in addition to them.’
Luke 19:12
He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
Luke 23:48
All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
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John 3:25
Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.
Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 20:38
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
John 6:54
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 12:24
Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Philippians 3:10
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
1 Peter 4:6
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
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John 12:3
Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
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John 20:25
The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
John 21:18
Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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Matthew 18:6
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
Galatians 1:7
but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
Philippians 2:21
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
Colossians 1:7
even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
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Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
Matthew 24:47
Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
Luke 21:28
But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”
Acts 7:57
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.
Acts 7:60
He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:52
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:53
For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
2 Peter 3:11
Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
2 Peter 3:12
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
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Psalms 12:7
You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Titus 2:12
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
1 Peter 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.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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Psalms 49:9
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
John 5:24
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Romans 8:10
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
2 Timothy 1:10
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
Revelation 3:21
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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 22:5
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
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Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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.
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Luke 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 1:8
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:18
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
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1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
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1 Corinthians 3:23
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
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Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Philippians 1:16
The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
Philippians 1:17
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
Philippians 1:18
What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
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Acts 16:26
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
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,
Philippians 1:30
having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.
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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Philippians 2:4
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:16
Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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Philippians 2:27
For indeed he was sick nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
Philippians 3:18
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
Philippians 4:21
Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
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Luke 17:21
neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
Luke 22:28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
Luke 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
2 Corinthians 1:11
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
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 4:13
but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Colossians 1:12
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
2 Peter 1:12
Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.
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.”
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Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 19:25
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
John 11:26
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:49
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
1 Timothy 3:16
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
Hebrews 11:40
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 13:14
For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
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Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Acts 19:25
whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
1 Timothy 5:23
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
Revelation 18:14
The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
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Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 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 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 8:36
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
John 10:28
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
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,
2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
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 91:14
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Psalms 119:37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
John 17:15
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
Romans 8:4
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 John 2:15
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
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Revelation 1:9
I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 4:2
Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
Revelation 5:7
Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
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Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
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