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Bible Verses About love – Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Bible Verses About love – Peter-2 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Bible Scriptures – John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Bible Verses About love – Numbers 5:19
And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;
Bible Verses About love – Romans 16:21
Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.
Bible Verses About seats – Esther 1:6
There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
Bible Verses About iron – Psalms 2:9
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter’s vessel.
Bible Verses About folding – Ecclesiastes 4:5
The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
Bible Verses About honey – Psalms 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.
Bible Verses About general – 1-Samuel 14:24
And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.
Bible Verses About unable – Daniel 10:15
And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.
Bible Verses About request – Acts 26:3
The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
Bible Verses About drop – Job 21:10
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
Bible Verses About door – Ezekiel 8:7
And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.
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 clearly – 1-Samuel 16:6
Now when they came, looking at Eliab, he said, Clearly the man of the Lord’s selection is before him.
Bible Verses About woodworker – 2-Kings 12:11
And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,
Bible Verses About seaside – Deuteronomy 1:7
Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Bible Verses About jehoram – 2-Chronicles 17:8
And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.
Bible Verses About against – Mark 6:48
And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;
Bible Verses About balaam – Numbers 22:40
And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.
Bible Verses About month – 2-Chronicles 29:17
On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord’s house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.
Bible Verses About sayings – Proverbs 6:2
You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
Bible Verses About lighted – Psalms 18:8
There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
Bible Verses About berechiah – Isaiah 8:2
And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
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 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 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 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 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 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 giving – Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Bible Verses About love – Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
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 baptism – John 4:2
(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
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 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 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 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 strength – 1-Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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 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 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.
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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 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 youth – Samuel-1 17:33
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
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 healing – Corinthians-1 12:30
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Bible Verses About kindness – Psalms 92:2
To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Bible Verses About baptism – Luke 20:4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
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 success – Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
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 foxes – Ezekiel 13:4
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Bible Verses About empty – Zecharia 4:12
And I answered again, and said unto him, What [be these] two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden [oil] out of themselves?
Bible Verses About triumph – Psalms 60:8
Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Bible Verses About destroyer – Job 33:22
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Bible Verses About subdue – Daniel 2:40
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all [things]: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Bible Verses About alive – Ezekiel 13:18
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] unto you?
Bible Verses About perfume – Exodus 30:35
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:
Bible Verses About fishermen – Luke 5:2
And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing [their] nets.
Bible Verses About skies – Psalms 77:17
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Bible Verses About bribe – Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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Bible Scriptures About wives – Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Bible Scriptures About believed – Luke 24:41
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Bible Scriptures About spoken – Samuel-2 6:22
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
Bible Scriptures About born – Kings-1 16:34
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Bible Scriptures About captain – Samuel-1 10:1
Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?
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 speak – James 2:12
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
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 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 woe – Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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 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 Scriptures About world – Luke 4:5
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Bible Scriptures About hosts – Jeremiah 48:15
Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.
Bible Scriptures About dwelt – Joshua 19:50
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Bible Scriptures About believe – John 8:45
And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
Bible Scriptures About souls – Genesis 46:18
These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls.
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 plague – Numbers 8:19
And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
Bible Scriptures About country – Judges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Bible Verses About rod – Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Bible Verses About whirlwind – 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 zerubbabel – Ezra 3:8
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
Bible Verses About observe – Kings-2 21:8
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
Bible Verses About habitation – Jeremiah 49:19
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?
Bible Verses About ministry – Timothy-1 1:12
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
Bible Verses About fly – Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Bible Verses About instruction – Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Bible Verses About masters – Ephesians 6:9
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Bible Verses About womb – Isaiah 44:2
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [which] will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
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