James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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Genesis 42:36
Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
Genesis 45:28
Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Genesis 47:12
Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Isaiah 38:10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
Isaiah 41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:13
For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
Isaiah 41:14
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Matthew 14:31
Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Luke 22:31
The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Exodus 10:3
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Leviticus 26:41
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
1 Kings 21:29
“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
2 Kings 22:19
because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 12:6
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
2 Chronicles 12:7
When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12
When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.
2 Chronicles 30:11
Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12
When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 33:23
He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
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Exodus 22:10
“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;
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Exodus 22:11
the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
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Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
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.
Jeremiah 12:16
It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
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Deuteronomy 28:58
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
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Deuteronomy 28:59
then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
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1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
James 5:16
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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2 Chronicles 36:12
He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
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 44:10
They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
Daniel 5:22
“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job 1:2
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 1:3
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Job 42:12
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
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Job 4:21
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
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Job 5:1
“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
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Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Deuteronomy 8:2
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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.
Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
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Psalms 27:13
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Psalms 37:34
Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Psalms 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Isaiah 25:9
It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
Isaiah 26:8
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 30:15
For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
Isaiah 30:18
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 33:2
Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Lamentations 3:25
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
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Psalms 125:4
Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
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Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
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Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
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Song of Solomon 1:8
If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
Jeremiah 6:16
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
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.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”
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2 Samuel 19:28
For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should appeal any more to the king?”
Job 1:21
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Isaiah 39:8
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 3:38
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:41
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
John 18:11
Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
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Amos 7:10
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.
Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Acts 7:53
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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Habakkuk 2:2
Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
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Job 1:10
Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 94:15
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 8:24
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
2 Corinthians 12:7
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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2 Kings 6:31
Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
Matthew 5:35
nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew 5:36
Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.
Matthew 5:37
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
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Matthew 8:20
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Matthew 10:18
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.
Matthew 10:35
For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Matthew 10:36
A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
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Psalms 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
Psalms 57:1
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
Matthew 24:13
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:22
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
Ephesians 2:20
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
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Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Matthew 26:64
Jesus said to him, “You have said so. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
Galatians 1:20
Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
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Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35:4
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
Luke 22:32
but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion and not after the tradition which they received from us.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Jeremiah 32:24
“Behold, siege ramps have been built against the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.
Jeremiah 32:25
You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”
Jeremiah 32:43
Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
Daniel 12:8
I heard, but I didn’t understand. Then I said, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
Daniel 12:12
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
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.
John 12:16
His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
John 13:7
Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
John 13:10
Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”
John 13:11
For he knew him who would betray him; therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
John 13:12
So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
John 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
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John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.
John 16:4
But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
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Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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1 Kings 18:13
Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 19:14
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
1 Kings 22:14
Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 36:15
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
Matthew 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
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Acts 7:59
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
Acts 8:1
Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Acts 8:2
Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
Acts 8:3
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
Acts 9:1
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 12:2
He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
Acts 14:2
But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
Acts 14:5
When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
Acts 14:19
But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 22:19
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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Acts 18:12
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
Acts 18:13
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
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1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
2 Corinthians 11:26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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Psalms 110:4
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
Hebrews 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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Hebrews 8:5
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
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Hebrews 9:23
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Psalms 37:4
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Proverbs 20:22
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Acts 1:4
Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
Hebrews 10:37
“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
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Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.
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.’ ”
Acts 2:31
he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.
Acts 10:43
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
Hebrews 11:32
What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—
1 Peter 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
1 Peter 1:12
To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
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James 1:7
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
James 3:9
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.
James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
James 4:11
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
James 4:15
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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James 5:15
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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1 Peter 3:5
For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
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1 Peter 3:6
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.
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2 Corinthians 6:6
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
2 Corinthians 12:12
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
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