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Bible Verses About love – Leviticus 11:26
[The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Bible Verses About love – Corinthians-1 10:14
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Bible Scriptures – John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Bible Verses About love – Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
Bible Verses About love – 1-John 4:21
And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.
Bible Verses About delight – Proverbs 16:13
Lips of righteousness are the delight of kings; and he who says what is upright is dear to him.
Bible Verses About fishes – Mark 8:7
And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.
Bible Verses About moon – Job 31:26
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
Bible Verses About dor – Joshua 17:11
In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills.
Bible Verses About boats – Luke 5:11
And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.
Bible Verses About amount – Nehemiah 11:23
For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.
Bible Verses About raven – Psalms 147:9
He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
Bible Verses About why – Nehemiah 13:21
Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.
Bible Verses About philippians – Philippians 1:14
And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.
Bible Verses About rooting – Ecclesiastes 3:2
A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Bible Verses About ostriches – Micah 1:8
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
Bible Verses About house – Jeremiah 36:5
And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:
Bible Verses About ruler – Ezra 4:9
The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
Bible Verses About whips – 1-Kings 12:14
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
Bible Verses About hisses – Lamentations 2:15
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Bible Verses About isaiah – Isaiah 9:14
For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
Bible Verses About gath – 2-Samuel 15:18
And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.
Bible Verses About asa – 2-Chronicles 31:13
And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.
Bible Verses About hearted – Psalms 109:16
Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Bible Verses About blow – Numbers 22:23
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her back on to the road.
Bible Verses About heaven – 2-Kings 7:19
And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Bible Verses About baptism – John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
Bible Verses About wisdom – Revelation 7:12
So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.
Bible Verses About salvation – Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
Bible Verses About visions – 1-Chronicles 26:1
For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.
Bible Verses About mothers – Mark 13:12
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.
Bible Verses About peace – Isaiah 48:18
If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Bible Verses About dreams – Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
Bible Verses About grace – Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Bible Verses About fear – Isaiah 8:9
Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:
Bible Verses About joy – Luke 1:44
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
Bible Verses About husbands – Jeremiah 44:19
And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?
Bible Verses About water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
Bible Verses About money – Proverbs 20:14
A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Bible Verses About clean – Numbers 19:14
This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.
Bible Verses About women – Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Bible Verses About wife – Genesis 4:17
And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.
Bible Verses About birth – Genesis 38:28
And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.
Bible Verses About tongue – Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
Bible Verses About giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
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Bible Verses About wisdom – Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Bible Verses About tongue – Psalms 137:6
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Bible Verses About purpose – Romans 9:17
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Bible Verses About visions – Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Bible Verses About struggle – Genesis 25:22
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
Bible Verses About worship – Revelations 22:8
And I John saw these things, and heard [them]. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
Bible Verses About hope – Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].
Bible Verses About strength – Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Bible Verses About giving – Corinthians-1 14:16
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Bible Verses About money – Genesis 31:15
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Bible Verses About belly – Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Bible Verses About hannah – Samuel-1 1:19
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
Bible Verses About intent – Acts 10:29
Therefore came I [unto you] without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
Bible Verses About ignorant – Timothy-1 1:13
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.
Bible Verses About anak – Deuteronomy 2:11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Bible Verses About burning – Psalms 140:10
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Bible Verses About groan – Corinthians-2 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
Bible Verses About outstretched – Jeremiah 21:5
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Bible Verses About bowl – Numbers 7:31
His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Bible Verses About chosen – Kings-2 21:7
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
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Bible Scriptures About built – Luke 6:49
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Bible Scriptures About shut – Kings-2 4:5
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
Bible Scriptures About sore – Mark 9:6
For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.
Bible Scriptures About presence – Numbers 20:6
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
Bible Scriptures About know – Psalms 69:19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
Bible Scriptures About righteousness – Corinthians-2 9:10
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
Bible Scriptures About portion – Job 41:12
I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Bible Scriptures About living – Colossians 2:20
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Bible Scriptures About sons – Chronicles-1 6:28
And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
Bible Scriptures About blood – Revelations 8:8
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
Bible Scriptures About covered – Samuel-2 22:16
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Bible Scriptures About bare – Genesis 4:22
And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.
Bible Scriptures About waters – Revelations 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Bible Scriptures About feast – Matthew 27:15
Now at [that] feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
Bible Scriptures About congregation – Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
Bible Scriptures About host – Samuel-2 20:23
Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
Bible Scriptures About verily – John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Bible Scriptures About sister – Acts 23:16
And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
Bible Scriptures About aaron – Numbers 16:43
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
Bible Scriptures About opened – Matthew 3:16
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Bible Verses About bones – Psalms 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Bible Verses About bondage – Exodus 13:14
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
Bible Verses About breath – Habakkuk 2:19
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.
Bible Verses About remembrance – Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Bible Verses About loose – Daniel 3:25
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Bible Verses About countenance – Psalms 44:3
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Bible Verses About bowels – Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Bible Verses About adultery – Jeremiah 3:9
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Bible Verses About tears – Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Bible Verses About report – Isaiah 53:1
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?