1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Deuteronomy 9:13
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
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 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do to you.
Nehemiah 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Jeremiah 44:4
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
Matthew 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
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.
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Genesis 28:18
Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.
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Genesis 45:4
Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45:5
Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
Matthew 2:15
and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Matthew 26:54
How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
Luke 24:44
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:45
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
Acts 3:22
For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
Acts 3:23
It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 4:10
may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him.
Acts 5:32
We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 13:27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
Acts 13:28
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
Acts 13:29
When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
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Exodus 14:17
Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
Psalms 83:17
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Psalms 83:18
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
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Exodus 21:33
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
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Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus 21:7
“ ‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21:8
Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
Leviticus 21:12
He shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 21:13
“ ‘He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus 21:14
He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.
Leviticus 21:15
He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”
Isaiah 61:5
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
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Numbers 24:5
How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel!
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Numbers 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
Job 7:3
so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 23:14
For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
Psalms 18:2
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
Romans 9:15
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 9:19
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 9:23
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
Romans 11:35
“Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”
1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
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1 Samuel 7:1
The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.
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1 Kings 12:15
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Isaiah 6:9
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Ezekiel 14:7
“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
Ezekiel 14:8
I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 14:9
“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
Zechariah 12:3
It will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
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.’
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Psalms 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
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Job 23:13
But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
Proverbs 16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Isaiah 14:24
Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
Isaiah 14:26
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
Acts 5:38
Now I tell you, withdraw from these men and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Ephesians 1:11
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
Hebrews 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
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Psalms 2:10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
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Psalms 2:11
Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
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Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Isaiah 45:25
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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.
Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Galatians 3:7
Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Psalms 91:11
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
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Psalms 91:12
They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
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Psalms 118:24
This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
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Proverbs 4:12
When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
John 11:10
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
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Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
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Isaiah 7:5
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
Isaiah 7:6
“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
Isaiah 7:7
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Jonah 1:13
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
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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.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Isaiah 35:6
Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
Zechariah 3:8
Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign; for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
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Psalms 17:13
Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
Isaiah 10:5
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:15
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Isaiah 37:26
“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Amos 3:6
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
Micah 6:9
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
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Jeremiah 44:5
But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.
Jeremiah 44:6
Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’
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Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Jeremiah 44:18
But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”
Zephaniah 1:3
I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
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Daniel 11:19
Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
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Zechariah 14:16
It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14:17
It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
Zechariah 14:18
If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
Zechariah 14:19
This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.
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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.
Luke 17:2
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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Matthew 21:45
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away.
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Matthew 26:30
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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Matthew 26:32
But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”
Matthew 26:33
But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
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Matthew 26:68
saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”
Matthew 27:28
They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him.
Matthew 27:29
They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Mark 15:18
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Mark 15:19
They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
John 19:2
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
John 19:3
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
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Luke 2:24
and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
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Luke 4:28
They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
Luke 4:29
They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
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Judges 1:4
Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
Isaiah 5:19
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Malachi 3:2
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
2 Peter 3:6
by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
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Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
Matthew 15:13
But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
Luke 7:23
Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
Acts 13:46
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 24:21
unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’ ”
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
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John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 3:36
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 6:47
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
John 6:53
Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
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 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.
John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
John 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
John 6:65
He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
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Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
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.
John 6:59
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
John 6:61
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
John 6:62
Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
John 6:64
But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
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2 Chronicles 22:7
Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.
2 Chronicles 25:16
As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Psalms 81:12
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
John 12:48
He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Acts 28:25
When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one message: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
Matthew 24:24
For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
2 Timothy 2:19
However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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Matthew 22:17
Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
John 19:14
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
John 19:15
They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
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Matthew 20:17
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
Luke 24:46
He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
Acts 3:18
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 13:26
“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
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Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Isaiah 30:14
He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
Isaiah 60:22
The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”
Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
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.
Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
Hebrews 1:2
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Hebrews 3:3
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
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Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Daniel 2:34
You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
John 8:21
Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
John 12:39
For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again:
Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
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Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Romans 3:3
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
Hebrews 3:19
We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
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 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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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 16:5
He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
Malachi 1:13
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
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.
Romans 10:11
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
Romans 10:16
But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
Revelation 5:9
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
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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.
Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Acts 26:19
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
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,
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
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 3:14
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
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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Zechariah 12:1
A revelation of Yahweh’s word concerning Israel: Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
Matthew 5:30
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”
Mark 6:3
Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him.
Luke 20:16
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
John 15:11
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
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.
Acts 13:47
For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”
Acts 28:24
Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
Romans 11:11
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
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.
Galatians 1:8
But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
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Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
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Luke 12:46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Acts 24:22
But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”
Acts 24:23
He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
Acts 24:24
After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
Acts 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
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Romans 15:31
that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 5:7
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
1 Timothy 1:12
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Hebrews 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
1 Peter 4:5
They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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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