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.
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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.
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Exodus 15:23
When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.
Psalms 66:11
You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
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Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
Isaiah 27:7
Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,
Colossians 1:12
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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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Joshua 1:18
Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Joshua 2:24
They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”
1 Samuel 11:9
They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’ ” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
1 Samuel 11:10
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”
1 Samuel 23:16
Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
2 Samuel 10:11
He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
2 Samuel 10:12
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
Proverbs 27:9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
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1 Samuel 28:15
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 2:9
oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Acts 9:4
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
Acts 18:9
The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Revelation 1:17
When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
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Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Ezekiel 22:18
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20
As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:21
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
Ezekiel 22:22
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”
Zechariah 13:8
It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh, “two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.
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Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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Psalms 34:1
I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
Psalms 34:2
My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Psalms 145:1
I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
Psalms 145:2
Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.
Psalms 146:2
While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
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Psalms 124:1
If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
Psalms 124:2
if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
Psalms 124:3
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,
Psalms 124:4
then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.
Psalms 124:5
Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
Isaiah 57:11
“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
Matthew 26:69
Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
Matthew 26:70
But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Matthew 26:71
When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
Matthew 26:72
Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”
Matthew 26:73
After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”
Matthew 26:74
Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.
Matthew 26:75
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
John 7:13
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John 9:22
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:34
They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
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Isaiah 4:5
Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
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Isaiah 4:6
There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
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2 Chronicles 16:9
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
2 Chronicles 25:9
Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”
Psalms 37:19
They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
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.
Isaiah 11:2
Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
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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.
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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Isaiah 35:10
Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
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?
Romans 9:23
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
2 Thessalonians 1:11
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
2 Thessalonians 1:12
that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
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Daniel 3:26
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
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.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
Luke 21:14
Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
Luke 21:15
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
Luke 21:16
You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
Luke 21:17
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
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.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
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Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Lamentations 3:52
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
Daniel 6:16
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
Daniel 6:17
A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
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Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner.
Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
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;
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 3:16
John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.
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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.
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Matthew 10:36
A man’s foes will be those of his own household.
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Matthew 10:39
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 27:32
As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.
Mark 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
Luke 9:23
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 9:26
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Peter 4:5
They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Matthew 20:23
He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
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2 Samuel 6:22
I will be yet more undignified than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”
Daniel 3:23
These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:25
He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
Daniel 3:27
The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed. The smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Matthew 24:6
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Luke 21:13
It will turn out as a testimony for you.
Luke 21:18
And not a hair of your head will perish.
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.
Hebrews 11:33
who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
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Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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2 Kings 2:15
When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
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.’ ”
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.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Philippians 2:18
In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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Matthew 26:30
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
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John 12:42
Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
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Acts 2:25
For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Acts 2:26
Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.
Acts 2:34
For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand
Acts 2:35
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” ’
Acts 2:36
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:39
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47
praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
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Acts 2:42
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Acts 2:43
Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
Acts 2:44
All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 2:45
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
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Acts 21:11
Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”
Acts 21:12
When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:14
When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
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Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Acts 16:24
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
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.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
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.
Ephesians 3:10
to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
2 Timothy 3:11
persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
1 Peter 1:10
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
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Romans 8:38
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
Romans 8:39
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Psalms 21:6
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
Psalms 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
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 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 65:14
Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
2 Corinthians 4:6
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
1 John 2:28
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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John 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Acts 1:3
To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
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.
1 Corinthians 15:31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
2 Corinthians 5:5
Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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 13:4
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
Philippians 1:13
so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
2 Timothy 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
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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,
1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
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Isaiah 51:11
Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Matthew 17:1
After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
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,
Philippians 3:11
if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
1 Thessalonians 4:17
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Timothy 6:14
that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
1 John 4:17
In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.
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Psalms 14:6
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Matthew 6:20
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;
Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
James 2:7
Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
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Psalms 69:7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Isaiah 51:7
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
Isaiah 53:8
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:10
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
Hebrews 10:24
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
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Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 35:2
It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Acts 13:52
The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
1 Timothy 6:15
which at the right time he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Hebrews 9:28
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
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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Luke 23:12
Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
John 18:21
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
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.
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Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
John 19:17
He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
John 21:19
Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
Romans 6:3
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
2 Peter 1:14
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
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1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
1 Peter 5:9
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
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Matthew 24:21
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Matthew 24:29
“But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Mark 13:19
For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
Mark 13:24
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
2 Peter 3:11
Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
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Isaiah 11:10
It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
Isaiah 40:5
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Isaiah 43:7
everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”
Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
John 17:4
I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
John 17:22
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
Ephesians 3:6
that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Revelation 2:11
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but he who receives it.
Revelation 2:26
He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:21
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 21:7
He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
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Revelation 10:10
I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
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Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
Revelation 1:1
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Revelation 2:13
“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Revelation 3:12
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
Revelation 15:2
I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
Revelation 15:3
They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
Revelation 15:4
Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
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