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Bible Verses About love – Song-of-Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love.
Bible Verses About love – Jude 1:17
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Bible Scriptures – Isaiah 41:10
Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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Bible Verses About love – 2-Timothy 4:19
Give my love to Prisca and Aquila and those of the house of Onesiphorus.
Bible Verses About love – Psalms 69:32
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
Bible Verses About requests – 1-Kings 8:54
Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;
Bible Verses About floors – Ezekiel 42:6
For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.
Bible Verses About apple – Joel 1:12
The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
Bible Verses About theirs – Daniel 7:18
But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.
Bible Verses About zichri – 1-Chronicles 26:25
And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
Bible Verses About book – 2-Kings 23:24
And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.
Bible Verses About gibeah – Judges 20:9
But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;
Bible Verses About edrei – Joshua 13:12
All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was one of the last of the Rephaim); these did Moses overcome, driving them out of their country.
Bible Verses About witnessing – Jeremiah 32:11
So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open:
Bible Verses About makkedah – Joshua 10:16
But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.
Bible Verses About zabdi – 1-Chronicles 27:2
Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
Bible Verses About biting – Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
Bible Verses About fire – Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.
Bible Verses About captain – 2-Kings 1:10
And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.
Bible Verses About chances – Psalms 31:15
The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.
Bible Verses About falling – Jeremiah 50:30
For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
Bible Verses About curtain – Exodus 26:6
Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.
Bible Verses About ward – 1-Timothy 1:3
It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,
Bible Verses About eleven – Ezekiel 30:20
Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Bible Verses About jether – 1-Kings 2:32
And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father’s knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
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 strength – 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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 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 life – 1-Samuel 7:15
And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.
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 prayer – Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
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 anger – 2-Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
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 water – Leviticus 14:50
And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;
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 healing – Corinthians-1 12:30
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
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 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 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 clean – Chronicles-2 29:18
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
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 faith – Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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 friend – Luke 23:12
And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Bible Verses About baptism – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
Bible Verses About fortress – Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.
Bible Verses About scorpion – Chronicles-2 10:11
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
Bible Verses About genealogy – Ezra 8:1
These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
Bible Verses About sackcloth – Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Bible Verses About offspring – Isaiah 48:19
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Bible Verses About earnest – Micha 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Bible Verses About push – Exodus 21:32
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Bible Verses About exit – Micha 7:4
The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Bible Verses About lioness – Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Bible Verses About foreskin – Genesis 17:24
And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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Bible Scriptures About moses – Exodus 18:13
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
Bible Scriptures About thither – Judges 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.
Bible Scriptures About image – Chronicles-2 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Bible Scriptures About ground – Samuel-1 8:12
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
Bible Scriptures About wood – Exodus 37:28
And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
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 tribe – Chronicles-1 6:72
And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
Bible Scriptures About present – Esther 1:5
And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;
Bible Scriptures About desolate – Ezekiel 38:12
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Bible Scriptures About wine – Isaiah 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Bible Scriptures About justice – Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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 wall – Psalms 84:3
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Bible Scriptures About tree – Nehemiah 8:3
And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people [were attentive] unto the book of the law.
Bible Scriptures About minister – Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Bible Scriptures About field – Samuel-1 11:5
And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
Bible Scriptures About gods – Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Bible Scriptures About silver – Genesis 23:15
My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Bible Scriptures About families – Joshua 16:5
And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
Bible Scriptures About gathered – Matthew 2:4
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Bible Verses About dragons – Isaiah 13:22
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Bible Verses About despise – Psalms 69:33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Bible Verses About sodom – Isaiah 3:9
The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Bible Verses About ignorant – Peter-2 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Bible Verses About affliction – Job 5:6
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Bible Verses About coals – Habakkuk 3:5
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Bible Verses About shine – Psalms 31:16
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
Bible Verses About prison – Isaiah 10:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
Bible Verses About abomination – Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
Bible Verses About begotten – Philemon 1:10
I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: