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Bible Verses About love – John-1 3:17
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Bible Scriptures – Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
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Bible Verses About love – Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
Bible Verses About love – Ezekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.
Bible Verses About deacon – Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:
Bible Verses About privately – Matthew 1:19
And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.
Bible Verses About pleasing – Proverbs 15:26
Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
Bible Verses About requesting – 2-Chronicles 30:1
Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Bible Verses About account – Ezekiel 11:25
Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.
Bible Verses About sleep – Mark 14:37
And he came, and saw them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to keep watch one hour?
Bible Verses About talking – Acts 2:4
And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.
Bible Verses About maaseiah – Ezra 10:18
And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.
Bible Verses About ram – Deuteronomy 23:4
Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.
Bible Verses About joash – Judges 6:29
And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing.
Bible Verses About hananiah – Ezra 10:28
And of the sons of Bebai, Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
Bible Verses About jephunneh – Numbers 13:6
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.
Bible Verses About hers – Hebrews 2:18
For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.
Bible Verses About mercies – Psalms 107:43
Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
Bible Verses About zechariah – Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.
Bible Verses About beth – Joshua 21:23
And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;
Bible Verses About warm – Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
Bible Verses About bor – 2-Kings 18:11
And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;
Bible Verses About important – Luke 14:8
When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,
Bible Verses About hadad – 1-Kings 11:23
And God sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from his lord, Hadadezer, king of Zobah:
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 love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
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 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 worship – Deuteronomy 13:2
And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;
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 poor – Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Bible Verses About life – 1-Samuel 7:15
And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.
Bible Verses About caring – Deuteronomy 12:19
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
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 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 water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
Bible Verses About faith – 1-Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
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 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 strength – 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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 fathers – Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
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.
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Bible Verses About water – Samuel-1 26:16
This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD’S anointed. And now see where the king’s spear [is], and the cruse of water that [was] at his bolster.
Bible Verses About fathers – Jeremiah 11:5
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
Bible Verses About wife – Peter-1 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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 love – Corinthians-2 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Bible Verses About grace – Exodus 33:16
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
Bible Verses About salvation – Psalms 116:13
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
Bible Verses About dreams – Samuel-1 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
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 poor – Judges 6:15
And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father’s house.
Bible Verses About willow – Job 40:22
The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Bible Verses About island – Acts 27:26
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
Bible Verses About kadesh – Numbers 13:26
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Bible Verses About confirm – Hebrews 6:17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
Bible Verses About nail – Isaiah 22:23
And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
Bible Verses About hidden – Obadiah 1:6
How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up!
Bible Verses About bethuel – Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Bible Verses About greatness – Esther 10:2
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Bible Verses About scale – Acts 9:18
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Bible Verses About chaldeans – Jeremiah 50:35
A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men].
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Bible Scriptures About darkness – Micha 7:8
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
Bible Scriptures About iniquity – Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Bible Scriptures About mouth – Revelations 10:10
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Bible Scriptures About cast – Acts 16:37
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Bible Scriptures About cried – Kings-1 13:4
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
Bible Scriptures About idols – Zecharia 10:2
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
Bible Scriptures About generations – Leviticus 7:36
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever throughout their generations.
Bible Scriptures About face – Daniel 10:9
Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
Bible Scriptures About destroyed – Esther 3:9
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king’s treasuries.
Bible Scriptures About tribe – Chronicles-1 6:72
And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
Bible Scriptures About prophecy – Chronicles-2 15:8
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.
Bible Scriptures About beloved – John-3 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Bible Scriptures About written – Job 31:35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.
Bible Scriptures About bow – Samuel-2 16:11
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now [may this] Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
Bible Scriptures About fall – Joshua 8:24
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Bible Scriptures About flock – Luke 2:8
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Bible Scriptures About dust – Luke 9:5
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Bible Scriptures About cry – Numbers 16:34
And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].
Bible Scriptures About near – Numbers 16:10
And he hath brought thee near [to him], and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
Bible Scriptures About oil – Exodus 35:15
And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
Bible Verses About journey – Acts 1:12
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
Bible Verses About saviour – Hosea 13:4
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.
Bible Verses About favour – Lamentations 4:16
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
Bible Verses About temptation – Deuteronomy 7:19
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Bible Verses About snare – Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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 visited – Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
Bible Verses About doctrine – Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Bible Verses About immediately – Acts 17:14
And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Bible Verses About secret – Isaiah 45:3
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel.