Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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Genesis 3:5
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Numbers 16:3
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
Numbers 16:12
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?
Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Psalms 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
Psalms 12:4
who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
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Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Psalms 101:3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
Psalms 101:7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Psalms 101:8
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
Acts 13:12
Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
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Genesis 37:2
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
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Exodus 28:38
It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
Leviticus 22:9
“ ‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Numbers 14:34
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
Numbers 18:1
Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers 18:22
Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:25
For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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Numbers 4:32
the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
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1 Samuel 15:19
Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
1 Samuel 15:20
Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
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2 Samuel 24:13
So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
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2 Chronicles 8:14
He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required, the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.
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Ezra 8:15
I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days. Then I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
Proverbs 27:23
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds,
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Psalms 118:3
Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
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1 Chronicles 29:24
All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
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Song of Solomon 3:7
Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
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Isaiah 21:7
When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
Hosea 9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
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Isaiah 36:21
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
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Isaiah 36:22
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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Jeremiah 6:27
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
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Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
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Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 13:19
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive.
Jeremiah 13:20
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
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Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 23:2
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”
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Jeremiah 31:7
For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
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Ezekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court. Behold, there were rooms and a pavement made for the court all around. Thirty rooms were on the pavement.
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Ezekiel 43:7
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Ezekiel 43:8
in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their door post beside my door post. There was a wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
Ezekiel 43:10
“You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
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Hosea 4:4
“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
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Zechariah 1:10
The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
Mark 6:30
The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.
Luke 10:17
The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
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Matthew 15:12
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
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Proverbs 15:22
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
Acts 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
Acts 15:6
The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
Titus 1:5
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
James 5:14
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
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Matthew 24:51
and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
Matthew 25:30
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Mark 7:34
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”
Romans 8:23
Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
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Mark 10:42
Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
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Mark 10:43
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
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Matthew 7:1
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
Luke 6:37
Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.
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Luke 12:13
One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
Luke 12:14
But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
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Matthew 10:15
Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Matthew 11:22
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 18:23
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
Luke 12:47
That servant who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
Luke 12:48
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.
1 Samuel 8:7
Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,
Jeremiah 25:4
Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),
Zephaniah 3:2
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 10:41
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”
2 Thessalonians 1:8
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
1 Peter 4:18
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
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Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
Acts 7:27
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:39
to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
Jude 1:8
Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
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John 6:67
Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
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John 6:69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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Acts 24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
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1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
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1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
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Acts 19:40
For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”
1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
1 Corinthians 14:33
for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
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1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Colossians 4:3
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,
2 Thessalonians 3:2
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
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2 Corinthians 3:15
But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Philippians 2:20
For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 8:10
I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
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Exodus 32:31
Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
Deuteronomy 16:12
You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
1 Corinthians 2:3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Corinthians 2:2
For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.
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 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
2 Corinthians 10:6
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 12:21
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
Philemon 1:21
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
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Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
Acts 20:25
“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
Romans 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
1 Corinthians 16:12
Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
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 12:14
Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Corinthians 12:15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
Philippians 2:2
make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
Philippians 2:19
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
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1 Corinthians 16:18
For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
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.
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
2 Corinthians 7:7
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2 Corinthians 13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.
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Galatians 1:2
and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
Galatians 1:5
to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Acts 13:4
So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
Romans 11:13
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:21
To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
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.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
Galatians 2:9
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
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Ephesians 5:22
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:24
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 6:2
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
1 Timothy 2:11
Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
1 Timothy 2:12
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
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Luke 22:26
But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
Romans 1:12
that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Romans 15:29
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 10:18
For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Philippians 2:26
since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
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.
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 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
Mark 13:33
Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
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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Luke 6:14
Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;
Romans 12:6
having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
Romans 12:7
or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
1 Corinthians 12:7
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:9
to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:10
and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages.
1 Corinthians 12:11
But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
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Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
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?
Acts 5:36
For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
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.
Ephesians 2:20
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
James 5:9
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
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Matthew 25:14
“For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.
1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
Ephesians 3:5
which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,
Ephesians 3:15
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
1 Timothy 3:15
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Hebrews 3:5
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
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Leviticus 19:32
“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Matthew 24:25
“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
Romans 16:19
For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
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 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Colossians 1:7
even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,
Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
Hebrews 13:23
Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
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Jeremiah 13:15
Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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2 Peter 2:13
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!
2 Peter 2:15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
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Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
Revelation 2:1
“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
Revelation 2:8
“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
Revelation 2:12
“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
Revelation 2:18
“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
Revelation 3:1
“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Revelation 3:7
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
Revelation 3:14
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
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