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Bible Verses About love – John-1 3:14
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.
Bible Verses About love – Song-of-Solomon 8:5
Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bare thee.
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 – Ezekiel 16:33
They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
Bible Verses About love – Judges 16:4
Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.
Bible Verses About uzza – 2-Samuel 6:7
And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.
Bible Verses About rate – Amos 2:12
But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
Bible Verses About amalekites – 1-Samuel 14:48
And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.
Bible Verses About kiss – Genesis 27:26
And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss.
Bible Verses About such – John 18:22
When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?
Bible Verses About morning – Amos 4:4
Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
Bible Verses About aquila – 2-Timothy 4:19
Give my love to Prisca and Aquila and those of the house of Onesiphorus.
Bible Verses About mareshah – 2-Chronicles 14:10
And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
Bible Verses About protest – Nehemiah 13:27
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
Bible Verses About bethuel – Genesis 22:23
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Bible Verses About gladly – 2-Corinthians 11:19
For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
Bible Verses About rahab – Isaiah 30:7
For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.
Bible Verses About bow – 1-Samuel 20:40
And Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy, and said to him, Take these and go back to the town.
Bible Verses About kanah – 1-Samuel 1:1
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
Bible Verses About laugh – Jeremiah 30:19
And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
Bible Verses About corinth – 1-Corinthians 8:10
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
Bible Verses About might – 2-Corinthians 9:4
For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.
Bible Verses About baz – Ezra 2:52
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
Bible Verses About anath – Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.
Bible Verses About netophathite – Nehemiah 12:28
And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,
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 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 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 love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
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 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 baptism – John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
Bible Verses About giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
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 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 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 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 hope – Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord’s punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
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 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 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 purpose – Philippians 1:17
But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.
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Bible Verses About sadness – Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Bible Verses About tithes – Numbers 18:26
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe.
Bible Verses About fear – Proverbs 14:16
A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Bible Verses About baptism – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
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 patience – Romans 5:3
And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Bible Verses About bless – Genesis 27:38
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
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 marriage – John 2:1
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
Bible Verses About jealousy – Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Bible Verses About draw – Isaiah 26:17
Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Bible Verses About cush – Chronicles-1 1:8
The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Bible Verses About carpenter – Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Bible Verses About boat – Acts 27:16
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Bible Verses About othniel – Judges 3:9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, [even] Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
Bible Verses About stubborn – Deuteronomy 21:20
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.
Bible Verses About hymn – 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 desert – Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Bible Verses About expectation – Proverbs 11:7
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.
Bible Verses About arrows – Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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Bible Scriptures About time – Jeremiah 31:1
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Bible Scriptures About knowledge – Corinthians-2 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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 jeroboam – Chronicles-2 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
Bible Scriptures About riches – Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Bible Scriptures About slew – Leviticus 9:18
He slew also the bullock and the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings, which [was] for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
Bible Scriptures About war – Corinthians-2 8:10
And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
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 ought – Psalms 107:12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and [there was] none to help.
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 abraham – Genesis 17:24
And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Bible Scriptures About lay – Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Bible Scriptures About followed – Matthew 8:10
When Jesus heard [it], he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Bible Scriptures About pray – Thessalonians-1 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
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 ways – Chronicles-2 17:3
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
Bible Scriptures About died – Judges 2:8
And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.
Bible Scriptures About stranger – Ezekiel 44:7
In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Bible Scriptures About aaron – Numbers 16:43
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.
Bible Scriptures About believe – John 8:45
And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
Bible Verses About heritage – Micha 7:14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Bible Verses About ministers – Luke 1:2
Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
Bible Verses About ease – Peter-2 2:14
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Bible Verses About grapes – Genesis 40:10
And in the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Bible Verses About bethel – Kings-2 17:28
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
Bible Verses About backward – Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Bible Verses About instruction – Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Bible Verses About watchman – Kings-2 9:18
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
Bible Verses About ethiopia – Kings-2 19:9
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
Bible Verses About sanctify – Ezekiel 37:28
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.