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τοὺς — 723x G3588 ὁ
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T-APM
Occurrences: 723 times in 628 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Accusative Plural Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:2 - Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:11 - and Josiah the father of Jeconiah[fn] and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:4 - When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:7 - Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:11 - On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:16 - When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:24 - News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:1 - Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:17 - “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:19 - Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:33 - “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:47 - And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:6 - “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:24 - “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:26 - But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:28 - When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:16 - When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:22 - But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:23 - When Jesus entered the synagogue leader's house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:36 - When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:1 - Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:5 - These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:14 - If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:25 - It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:4 - He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:7 - If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,'[fn] you would not have condemned the innocent.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:49 - Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15 - For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:25 - But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:36 - Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:41 - The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:49 - This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:9 - The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:14 - When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:15 - As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:19 - And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:22 - Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:23 - After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:35 - And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:30 - Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:31 - The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:32 - Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:36 - Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:39 - After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:9 - Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:10 - Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:13 - When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:8 - When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:29 - “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:1 - When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8 - “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:17 - Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:12 - Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:15 - But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:34 - When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:35 - “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:41 - “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:43 - “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:46 - They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:3 - He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:4 - “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:6 - The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:7 - The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:9 - So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:11 - “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:16 - They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:34 - Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:44 - “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” '[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:4 - They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:7 - they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi' by others.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:13 - “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:29 - “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:31 - So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:37 - “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:22 - “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:24 - For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:31 - And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:49 - and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:9 - “ ‘No,' they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:10 - “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:14 - “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:1 - When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:11 - The poor you will always have with you,[fn] but you will not always have me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:14 - Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:37 - He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:40 - Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn't you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:45 - Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:20 - But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:9 - Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:10 - Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:32 - That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:22 - And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:23 - One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:26 - In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:34 - Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:12 - The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:13 - He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:14 - Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:19 - Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:22 - Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:40 - But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:7 - Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:26 - The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:36 - Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:41 - Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:44 - The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:45 - Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:55 - They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:25 - In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:37 - People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:1 - During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:6 - He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:19 - When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” “Twelve,” they replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” They answered, “Seven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:24 - He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:25 - Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:27 - Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:33 - But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:38 - If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:14 - When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:18 - Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:31 - because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:35 - Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:45 - And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:24 - The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[fn] to enter the kingdom of God!
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:32 - They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:15 - On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:2 - At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:5 - He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:9 - “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:36 - David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” '[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:43 - Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:20 - “If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:22 - For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:27 - And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:7 - The poor you will always have with you,[fn] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:10 - Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:63 - The high priest tore his clothes. “Why do we need any more witnesses?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:33 - and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:55 - to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:65 - All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:79 - to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:27 - Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:18 - “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:3 - He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:9 - For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:22 - Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:30 - But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:34 - Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:37 - And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:1 - One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:4 - He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:8 - But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in front of everyone.” So he got up and stood there.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:13 - When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:20 - Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27 - “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:28 - bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:32 - “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:33 - And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24 - After John's messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:31 - Jesus went on to say, “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:38 - As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:44 - Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:45 - You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:46 - You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:33 - When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:34 - When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:35 - and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:41 - Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with him to come to his house
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:1 - When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:2 - and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:11 - but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:14 - (About five thousand men were there.) But he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:16 - Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:26 - Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:28 - About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:32 - Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:43 - And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:44 - “Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:60 - Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:9 - Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:23 - Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:36 - “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:39 - She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:1 - One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43 - “Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:46 - Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:52 - “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:1 - Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be[fn] on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:17 - He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:22 - Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:24 - Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 - But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,' and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:2 - Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:4 - Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:28 - “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:34 - “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:3 - Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:7 - When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable:
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 - Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:21 - “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:26 - “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:5 - And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:6 - and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:15 - So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:22 - “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:1 - Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:4 - I know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:8 - “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:23 - In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:29 - “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:1 - Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:16 - He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:22 - Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:9 - To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:13 - “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:31 - Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:15 - “He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:27 - But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:45 - When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:10 - At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:16 - He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:43 - until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” '[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:1 - As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:35 - For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:32 - But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:45 - When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:52 - Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:4 - Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:13 - Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:33 - When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:10 - It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:33 - They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:39 - Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:40 - When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:51 - He then added, “Very truly I tell you,[fn] you[fn] will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on'[fn] the Son of Man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:14 - In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:15 - So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:23 - Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:24 - God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:35 - Don't you have a saying, ‘It's still four months until harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:21 - For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:5 - When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:10 - Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:11 - Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:70 - Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:35 - The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:45 - Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn't you bring him in?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:31 - To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:6 - After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:11 - He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:13 - They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:14 - Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:15 - Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:17 - Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:18 - They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man's parents.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:21 - But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:22 - His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:26 - Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:30 - The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:19 - The Jews who heard these words were again divided.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:2 - (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:32 - When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:33 - When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:37 - But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:41 - So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:44 - The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:46 - But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:3 - Then Mary took about a pint[fn] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:8 - You will always have the poor among you,[fn] but you will not always have me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:40 - “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:42 - Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:5 - After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:6 - He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:8 - “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:9 - “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:10 - Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:12 - When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:14 - Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:24 - Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:1 - After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:21 - Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:38 - “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:17 - Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:23 - Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:18 - Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:22 - “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:34 - For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:35 - until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” '[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:37 - When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:47 - praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:25 - And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:5 - The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:23 - On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:35 - and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:37 - sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles' feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:2 - With his wife's full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles' feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:5 - When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:10 - At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:11 - Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:15 - As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:18 - They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:23 - “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:24 - On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:34 - But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:40 - His speech persuaded them. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:1 - In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews[fn] among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:12 - So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:8 - Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:12 - When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:19 - He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:23 - “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:25 - Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:43 - You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile'[fn] beyond Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:52 - Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him—
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:54 - When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:56 - “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:58 - dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:3 - But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:1 - Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:14 - And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:21 - All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn't he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn't he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:22 - Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:27 - But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:29 - He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews,[fn] but they tried to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:32 - As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord's people who lived in Lydda.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:40 - Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, “Tabitha, get up.” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:41 - He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:21 - Peter went down and said to the men, “I'm the one you're looking for. Why have you come?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:24 - The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:25 - As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:38 - how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:44 - While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:20 - Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:26 - and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:30 - This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:19 - After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:17 - The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors; he made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt; with mighty power he led them out of that country;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:32 - “We tell you the good news: What God promised our ancestors
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:36 - “Now when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:45 - When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:50 - But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:10 - and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:18 - Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from sacrificing to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:19 - Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:1 - Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:2 - This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:21 - For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:32 - Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:33 - After spending some time there, they were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:36 - Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:3 - Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:19 - When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:24 - When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:27 - The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:35 - When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:36 - The jailer told Paul, “The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:40 - After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia's house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:6 - But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:8 - When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:13 - But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:17 - So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:30 - In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:2 - There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:13 - “This man,” they charged, “is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:14 - Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to them, “If you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to listen to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:9 - But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:10 - This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:13 - Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:25 - He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said: “You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:37 - You have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:1 - When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said goodbye and set out for Macedonia.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:17 - From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:30 - Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:4 - We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:7 - We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:11 - Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:21 - They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:26 - The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:32 - He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:35 - When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - “Aren't you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:3 - “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:5 - as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:19 - “ ‘Lord,' I replied, ‘these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:30 - The commander wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews. So the next day he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the members of the Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:32 - The next day they let the cavalry go on with him, while they returned to the barracks.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:16 - So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:16 - “I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over anyone before they have faced their accusers and have had an opportunity to defend themselves against the charges.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:6 - And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:13 - About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16 - ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:29 - Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:2 - We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:4 - From there we put out to sea again and passed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:24 - and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:42 - The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any of them from swimming away and escaping.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:43 - But the centurion wanted to spare Paul's life and kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:44 - The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:16 - When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:17 - Three days later he called together the local Jewish leaders. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: “My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:25 - They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27 - For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:30 - For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:25 - They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:2 - Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:3 - So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:22 - This righteousness is given through faith in[fn] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:17 - As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”[fn] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:14 - Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:15 - But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:5 - Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised![fn] Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:12 - For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:3 - “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”[fn]?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:22 - Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:28 - As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:32 - For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:36 - For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:14 - Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:26 - For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord's people in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:3 - Greet Priscilla[fn] and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among[fn] the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:10 - Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:11 - Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:14 - Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:15 - Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord's people who are with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:17 - I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:20 - The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:27 - to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:21 - For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:27 - But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”[fn];
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:20 - and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:9 - For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:12 - What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:13 - God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:4 - Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:20 - To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:22 - To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:10 - It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own[fn] head, because of the angels.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:22 - Don't you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:35 - If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:25 - For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:27 - For he “has put everything under his feet.”[fn] Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:1 - Now about the collection for the Lord's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:18 - For they refreshed my spirit and yours also. Such men deserve recognition.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:9 - Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:12 - We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:6 - But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:4 - they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:1 - There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord's people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:2 - For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:3 - But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:5 - So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 10:2 - I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:31 - The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:5 - to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:4 - This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:5 - to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:15 - Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:10 - Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:12 - in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:15 - For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:18 - I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:19 - and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:22 - And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:15 - by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:16 - and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:11 - So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:6 - Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:12 - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:15 - and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:13 - As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard[fn] and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:14 - And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:29 - So then, welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:2 - Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:17 - Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:18 - For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 4:20 - To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:4 - because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people—
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:6 - Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:5 - Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:15 - Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:15 - who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:10 - And in fact, you do love all of God's family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:12 - so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:14 - For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:15 - According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:12 - Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:14 - And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:26 - Greet all God's people with a holy kiss.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:17 - Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 2:8 - Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:7 - Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:16 - Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:20 - But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:1 - All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:9 - Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:10 - Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:19 - Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:25 - Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4 - They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:18 - The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:9 - He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:6 - Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:15 - Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:5 - because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:2 - but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:7 - In speaking of the angels he says, “He makes his angels spirits, and his servants flames of fire.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:9 - You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:13 - To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”[fn]?
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:14 - Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:14 - Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,[fn] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:4 - It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:5 - Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:25 - Therefore he is able to save completely[fn] those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:13 - The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:1 - The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:2 - Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:14 - For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:27 - but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:3 - By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:10 - For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:31 - By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:35 - Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:9 - Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:21 - equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:24 - Greet all your leaders and all the Lord's people. Those from Italy send you their greetings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:5 - Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:25 - In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:3 - When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:9 - With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:10 - Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:11 - As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:5 - who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:21 - Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:11 - If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 5:1 - To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 5:11 - To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10 - This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh[fn] and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings;
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:18 - For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:11 - But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:14 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:5 - Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,[fn] even though they are strangers to you.
Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:8 - We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.
Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:10 - So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:5 - Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord[fn] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:6 - And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:15 - to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:25 - to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:3 - Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:6 - and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:17 - When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:18 - I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:1 - “To the angel[fn] of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:2 - I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:18 - “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:22 - So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:1 - “To the angel[fn] of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits[fn] of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:10 - Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:18 - I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:4 - Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:9 - Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:10 - the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:13 - Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:14 - The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 6:13 - and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:1 - After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:3 - “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:12 - saying: “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 8:2 - And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:4 - They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:10 - They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:14 - It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:17 - The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:6 - And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay!
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:1 - I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:5 - If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:10 - The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:11 - But after the three and a half days the breath[fn] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:15 - The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:16 - And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:6 - It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:12 - It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:14 - Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:16 - It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:6 - Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:18 - Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 15:2 - And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 15:7 - Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:2 - The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:4 - The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:8 - The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:14 - They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:21 - From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[fn] fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:3 - And again they shouted: “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:19 - Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:20 - But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:10 - And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:12 - And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:13 - The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:15 - The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:5 - There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:7 - “Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:9 - But he said to me, “Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:10 - Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:18 - I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.
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